The bed base is an essential element of good bedding. Just like the mattress, there are different types of bed bases answering different problems. Are you looking for maximum comfort for your nights? Do you need a bed with optimal ventilation? Or do you want to treat your back problems? With this guide, determine the solution to these questions and choose the appropriate bed base.
1. The box spring, essential accompaniment of the mattress
What is a bed base?
The mattress contributes to the comfort of the bed and the sommier to its support. The mattress absorbs the movements and the bed frame cushions them. A good mattress, without the bed base that suits it, loses most of its qualities of comfort and support, which account for a third in the quality of sleep.
The bed base also allows aeration of the mattress and ensures hygiene. It is essential to change the bed base together with the mattress and opt for a bed mattress set adapted to combine the effects of the mattress and box spring for comfort and support optimized.
2. The slatted frame, a classic acclaimed
The slatted bed base
The bed base with fixed slats or passive is a classic bed base composed of a frame on which are fixed wooden slats which can be more or less wide and more or less spaced according to the type of bed base. The slatted frame is the most common model. Its comfort is firm but offers no elasticity.
The slatted bed base
The slatted frame with articulated or active slats allows a better sleeping comfort. The slats are in beech or poplar multi plies, giving some elasticity to the latte. The active slats allow the bed frame to follow the position and movements of the body on the mattress during sleep, which is more morphological. The comfort is softer because the body is suspended. The slats active slats can also be equipped with sliders of firmness that we adjust the desired support effect. It is the slats with the best mobility and therefore the best comfort. Indeed, being able to adjust the firmness in the kidneys and lumbar optimizes the bed frame that is firmer at one place and more flexible at another.
Slatted bed base, maximum ventilation
Active or passive slatted frame provides natural ventilation to the mattress. As long as the slats are spaced apart, all the bedding is continuously ventilated. Aeration has several beneficial effects: it increases the life of the mattress, it allows a better air circulation, it avoids being too hot in summer and it prevents the risk of allergies and rheumatism problems. The slats can be covered or bare. The slats said covered or dressed can be by all types of springs, bagged or biconical, and sometimes even foam. The height of the bed base can vary from 7 to 30 cm. The higher the bed base, the better the circulation of the air.
What mattress for the slatted frame?
It is advisable to combine slatted bed bases with foam, latex and memory foam mattresses. In the case of a memory foam mattress, the slatted bed active offers the double advantage of optimizing ergonomics and promotes air circulation.
To find the perfect comfort, it is recommended to test the different types of mattresses, our experts are at your disposal to explain in details and make you try these mattresses in our Le Lit stores , located in Paris.
3. The box spring, ideal for back problems
The slatted frame is different from the active slatted frame as it provides point-by-point support. It is composed of flexible, multidirectional pads that adapt and follow all body movements. With it, the sleeping position is anatomically correct, the weight of the body is distributed over the entire surface of the box spring and the sleeping comfort is better. The ventilation of the mattress and the air circulation is the same as for the sommiers to slats and therefore offers the same benefits in terms of the life of the mattress and hygiene of the bedding.
Who to advise the plank springboard?
The box spring is the most mobile fixed bed. Long used as a relaxation bed for its lift and comfort qualities, it is particularly recommended for people with back problems. Its extreme ventilation also makes it the ideal bed for users with rheumatism or to prevent the risk of allergies.
Which mattress to associate with the box spring?
The box spring can be combined with foam mattresses, latex, or memory foam. For a healthy sleep, without allergic risks, a box spring coupled with a natural latex mattress is the ideal solution.
4. The bed base, an extra-firm bed
The bed base ensures certain robustness and rigidity, as well as a great firmness of sleeping. It consists of a perforated wooden board facilitating the circulation of the air. Has used a lot, it was mostly replaced by the slatted frame because of insufficient ventilation of the mattress adversely affecting both its duration and its Hygiene. The box spring is not recommended for people with back problems, a firm bed is as bad as a soft bed. Attention should also be paid to condensation, due to normal night sweating but aggravated by poor ventilation, which may damage the mattress and cause a proliferation of mites.
5. The box spring, a timeless softness
Box spring What are the special features of the box spring?
The box spring, like the spring mattress, contains two kinds of springs, biconical or bagged. We find all heights, from 13 to 30 cm. It is recommended exclusively with a spring mattress so that its qualities combine for more support and a better home. As in the case of the spring mattress, the choice of a biconical springs bed does not allow independence of sleeping. If you opt for a box springs pocket, each movement remains independent, resulting in enhanced comfort. If you do not want to have a mattress too firm and the best comfort possible, the ideal duo is a mattress and a box spring to springs. Unlike the slatted frame, the box spring has a relatively short life. Its springs, guarantees flexibility and softness,
Why choose a spring mattress?
The box spring usually lacks firmness. Also it is not recommended for people with back problems. Sleepers looking for great sleeping comfort can opt for the combination mattress and box spring. However, this kind of bed base offers little ventilation to the mattress, so it is not recommended for people with allergies.
6. The box spring combines comfort and deco
What is a box spring?
The box spring is a bed base covered with fabric. The box spring can be slats, studs or springs. Its frame is surrounded by fabric to protect it against possible impacts to which a bare solid wood bed frame would be more exposed. This protection ensures a longer life although the decorative side tends to prevail in the choice of a box spring. In fact, we can prefer a box spring covered with simple ticking or choose from a wide range of decorative fabrics. Aeration of the mattress is less important in the case of a box spring than in that of a classic bed base, the fabric covering the frame of the bed frame impeding the flow of air.
Which box spring to choose?
All types of bedsteads, except the floor mattress can be covered with fabrics and thus become bed bases upholsterer. Depending on the type of bedding desired and the mattress chosen, we recommend a bed base with slats, studs or springs. For better ventilation of the box spring, especially in the case of box spring, it is better to opt for a high model, ensuring hygiene and ventilation. Declinable in many fabrics and colors, the box spring can match all models of headboards and add a decorative touch to your bedroom.
7. The electric bed, relaxation and well-being
The electric bed base (or TPR, lifting heads and feet), whether slats or studs, allows, with a remote control, to raise one or more parts of the bed. The benefits of the electric bed frame are multiple, not only in terms of relaxation but also of well-being and health. Thanks to a precise lifting of the different parts of the body, head, bust, knees or legs, it relaxes the muscles, avoids stiffness, relieves lumbar and muscular tension or facilitates breathing or blood circulation.
The comfort is extreme; a double bed is composed of a fixed frame with two bed bases and two separate mattresses. Each of the sleepers can adjust his bed frame at leisure, thanks to its remote control; the independence of sleeping is total and the movements of one not affecting the sleep of the other. The electric bed also allows to get up and lie down more easily, minimizing effort.
Depending on the desired degree of firmness one can opt for a slatted version, firmer and offering more support or a version with studs, more flexibility and mobility. It is recommended to combine a mattress made of latex, HR foam with high resilience or memory foam, with their elastic properties to guarantee a better resistance to deformation.
