Why low platform beds?
Right, Steven, he’s talking about modern furniture and yeah, everything’s a platform bed when you go contemporary. If you drive to any major city and go into a standard mattress place, you will see everything with huge pillowtops and tall boxsprings. But in my opinion, those are ugly. I am tall, and I like the look of most platform beds, but there is a limit and it depends on the room. Personally I think most Italian modern platform bed designs are too low, and they don’t look right in most rooms. I found something modern and platform bed looking, without having to practically set a bed on the floor (which I think looks dumb in a room with 9′ ceilings). If you look at what West Elm has to offer, I would say their low platform bed is in the ridiculous looking category, but
Well, it makes sense that the beds you see in furniture stores are platform beds. A box spring usually goes on top of a simple metal frame. There are some more elaborate ones with headboards, etc., but overall, most of what would qualify as “furniture” (in other words, what would be worth a furniture store’s while to display and sell, if they’re not actually selling mattresses) would tend to be a platform bed.
