I am currently in the market for a new bed. I still need a new rug but the bed is on it's last legs, quite literally.
It's an Ikea frame, they don't even make it anymore in full size. I think it was called Lillhamer,something like that. They make a similar one in a twin:
Pretty basic and it's survived awhile too, I know a lot of people knock Ikea quality but this bed is 6 or 7 years old and has survived 3 or 4 moves. All that moving and assembling, it's pretty impressive. I think if we'd stayed in once place all this time the bed would still be doing good.
As it stands right now the veneer is peeling the screws are stripped and no matter how many times we tighten it up with an Allen wrench after a few days it's squeaky again. (Please notice there are no dirty jokes here, I'm fighting it as much as I can)
A very odd thing about the bed is that it fit our old regular mattress fine but when we got the Sonno Prima from DWR the new mattress comes over the frame about an inch. I though all beds were made by the same measurements, I guess not.
I've added a headboard (which is a must have for me, I'll lose my pillows otherwise) and put a skirt on the bottom to hid all our storage and the leg lifts.
Here's what the skirt looks like:
and the storage underneath with the leg lifts:
The skirt is attached with velcro, the left lift are a must for the storage and because I prefer a high bed.
Here's the Headboard:
For the headboard we bought one of those ready to hang prints in the as-is section and covered it with some fabric (also from Ikea) and attached eith several L-brackets.
The bed was $99 and with everything we did I'd say $30, Not that bad for no lost pillows and plenty of hidden storage.
