We didn't have a whole lot of money after we bought our memory foam mattress, so we were looking for a platform bed frame on a budget. This one matched the headboard from our previous full-size bed, so I decided to take a chance on it. I ordered on December 19th, and the tracking status said it would be delivered to Philadelphia (about an hour away from us) on December 24th (Christmas Eve). This was a bit confusing, but I found out later that the shipping company, CEVA, ships to a local warehouse and makes an appointment before bringing it to your home. It wasn't until the first week of January that I received a card in the mail suggesting that I call to make an appointment.
As for the bed itself, it is, obviously, rather cheaply made.
The slats are all slightly different lengths, some slightly warped, and all splintery.
The center beam had little metal plates to receive alan bolts that went through the slats, but when you tried to screw them all in, the plates would separate from the beam. I grabbed some superglue and that seems to have fixed it (fingers crossed).
The feet on the center beam do not touch the floor.
The outside beams are as pretty as the picture, though they got a little scuffed in shipping.
This bed, by itself, is not good for a memory foam mattress. It comes with 12 3-inch slats. Considering it is 80 inches long, you can imagine how many gaps there are for your memory foam mattress to seep through and misshape itself. I had to go to Home Depot and pick up some plywood to give the mattress its needed flat surface.
The holes in the screw plate that joins headboard to side rails to footboard are oval, rather than round, so that you have to adjust the flushness of the corners to make sure the slats can reach their screw holes on the inside lip of the side rail (yes, you have to screw the slats in place, else this bed will fall apart). So without a lot of attention to detail, the corners will end up mismatching (they all cannot be flush).
Overall, this bed was a nightmare to put together. Now that it's done, it's pretty sturdy. I didn't quite anticipate how high off the ground it would be. With my 10-inch mattress and the 1/2 inch plywood it is 2 feet from the floor to the top of the mattress (I am 5'3" and my feet don't touch the ground when sitting on the edge).
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Slat distance really does make a big difference when you're using a memory foam mattress, as you've pointed out. The closer you can get them, the better, since foam is more of a "fluid" material (not literally, of course!) than traditional innerspring mattresses.
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