Why Platform Beds Deserve Your Attention
Need more reasons to ask your designer to custom-build a platform bed for your room? Here are six
Chiquit Brammall
28 November 2019
Design journalist and freelance editor. Dollhouse architect. Serial renter.
1. It creates extra storage
Possibly the most common reason that homeowners go for a built-in platform is that they need more storage. Building a platform over drawers allows the same footprint to cover two functions: the sleep space and additional storage.
Possibly the most common reason that homeowners go for a built-in platform is that they need more storage. Building a platform over drawers allows the same footprint to cover two functions: the sleep space and additional storage.
2. It’s child-friendly
Children are prone to rolling off their beds, so many parents eschew a traditional bed frame for a mattress placed on the floor, or in this case, the platform.
3. It automatically delineates zones
Whether you’re separating the study from the sleep space, or some other function, a platform is a physical boundary signifying a change in function or use of the space. In this room, a study desk is incorporated in the platform’s design, and the step-and-a-half up to the beds signals the change of zones in the room.
Children are prone to rolling off their beds, so many parents eschew a traditional bed frame for a mattress placed on the floor, or in this case, the platform.
3. It automatically delineates zones
Whether you’re separating the study from the sleep space, or some other function, a platform is a physical boundary signifying a change in function or use of the space. In this room, a study desk is incorporated in the platform’s design, and the step-and-a-half up to the beds signals the change of zones in the room.
4. Bedding won’t touch the floor
Neat freak? A platform keeps your sheets securely abovefoot, so that they’re not in the way when you’re cleaning the floor.
Neat freak? A platform keeps your sheets securely abovefoot, so that they’re not in the way when you’re cleaning the floor.
5. It makes a space cosier and more intimate
A platform automatically decreases the distance between the top of the bed and the ceiling. This gives you the feeling of a lower ceiling, which exudes a cosier, more intimate ambience.
Find a design professional for your platform bed
A platform automatically decreases the distance between the top of the bed and the ceiling. This gives you the feeling of a lower ceiling, which exudes a cosier, more intimate ambience.
Find a design professional for your platform bed
6. It allows for some serious customisation
Check out this cleverly designed pop-up table emerging from the platform. Instant breakfast-in-bed nook, or a tuck-away work-in-bed desk.
Check out this cleverly designed pop-up table emerging from the platform. Instant breakfast-in-bed nook, or a tuck-away work-in-bed desk.
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Tell us:
Do you have or are thinking of having a platform bed? What are the pros or cons for you? Let us know in the Comments section.
9 Dramatic & Gorgeous Four-Poster Bed Designs
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Tell us:
Do you have or are thinking of having a platform bed? What are the pros or cons for you? Let us know in the Comments section.
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so very nice disinig
I had designed a platform bed as part of my portfolio while in college, and my professor had given me a big fat ZERO. His reasoning was if a person using a platform bed got up in the middle of the night to take a leak would most likely trip and fall. This was about 30 odd years back.