so i measured the seat heights of my various sofas etc and they range from 15 to 17 inches and when i sit down on them and compress them with my weight the range becomes 12 - 14 inches.
the lowest profile bed that i like in Ikea is 10-3/8 inches tall and my mattress is probably going to end up 11 - 15 inches tall so as you can see it doesn’t exactly work out.
so i had many ideas how to build my own bed frame of the height i require. i’m comfortable building things out of wood, have many power saws and drils, but i don’t want to breathe in saw dust and there would be a lot of sawdust to build a ~200 pound bed frame.
anyway i keep coming back to my original idea that i had before i even knew what latex foam is - and the idea was not to use a bed frame at all - but instead make the mattress so thick that it goes all the way to the floor !
of course making open cell PU foam this thick is just asking for the mattress to develop body impressions, plus the foam simply doesn’t come in heigh enough ILD for this to work - however nobody said that i have to use open cell PU foam !
i can use closed cell XLPE foam which is semi-rigid, and only weighs 2 pounds per cubic foot, so my entire bed if i make it 7 inches tall ( which is what i want ) would only weigh 38 pounds, compared to Ikea bed which weighs over 200 pounds. in fact the bed would weigh less than 2" Venus memory foam topper - which weighs 44 pounds.
furthermore i would be able to disassemble the bed at any time as it would simply consist of foam blocks laying on the floor so even my grandma would have no problem moving the bed from one room to another ( once i took the mattress off of it ).
this is the foam in question ( called minicell ) :
http://www.foamforyou.com/minicell_foam.htm
what do you think ?