With the rising demand for smart products that enhance functional convenience inside the home, the adjustable base, also known as an adjustable bed frame, has gained popularity across all generations. Its modern design seamlessly complements most bedroom furniture, such as bed frames or storage beds with a headboard and footboard. Thanks to technological advancements, Bed Tech adjustable bases offer user-friendly and semi-universal setup formats, allowing the base to stand alone or be placed on top of a solid surface or slats. This convenience means you can maintain your style, whether it's a chic, contemporary, rustic, or industrial design, while incorporating a sophisticated adjustable base upgrade into your bedroom.
Growing Popularity Of Adjustable Bases to Upgrade Your Style and Sleep Health
Products that help us sleep better, like an adjustable base and mattress, are ones that we should hold high and place significant importance on, as they support our ability to sleep soundly with proper support and pressure relief. Now, it is easier than ever to encompass ultimate comfort and prioritize a trendy style while sprucing up or redesigning a space like a bedroom.
The adjustable base offers more than just convenience. With quick customization and relaxation options at your fingertips, your remote control or even an alternate device like a cell phone can power it to fully lift and lower your adjustable base to furnish a more comfortable, ergonomic position to support the body's curvature. Adjustable beds, like the Bed Tech BT3000, include features like zero-gravity mode, massage functions, and programmable memory settings. Adjustable beds are becoming more known for their benefits in managing conditions like Acid Reflux and Sleep Apnea, allowing for an open airway for better breathing or reduced acid regurgitation through inclined bed therapy.
An adjustable base offers a reassurance of health benefits, combined with a versatile fit with furniture and structural soundness for improved longevity over a standard boxspring and Hollywood frame. With an adjustable bed, you can have more confidence that you're making a wise investment in your sleep health, as well as a convenient ability to boost comfort and support anytime, day or night.
Types Of Bed Frames
With the addition of an adjustable base, you can lay back, kick your feet up, and relax; with one press of a button, you can relieve tension before bed and form nightly routines that facilitate a wholesome environment to recuperate. Undeniably, the adjustable bed, paired with a comfy adjustable-friendly mattress, is the best way to set yourself up for sleep success.
Aside from the mattress, what type of bed frames work with adjustable bases? Here, we'll explore the fine details of installing a new adjustable base to accompany a bed frame with slats.
Suppose your interior design is already on point, and you want to keep your bedroom accouterments, like your headboard and footboard, the same. In that case, you can put an adjustable base on top of the slats to keep your furniture intact while upgrading your bed base to a moveable one. Before purchasing an adjustable base, it is wise to explore common types of bed frames to determine which kind you have. With more knowledge about furniture and adjustable beds, you can be more confident about which avenue to take with your adjustable base setup configuration. The good news is that most bed frames with a headboard, footboard, and slats are compatible with an adjustable base.
Panel Bed Frame
A panel-style bed frame consists of a headboard, footboard, two vertical side rails, and slats that run horizontally across the rail system. A panel bed embodies a standard design of bed frames, usually with a head and footboard piece. Generally, a panel bed frame has at least three horizontal slats—one near the head, one near the foot, and one in the middle. The midmost slat typically extends a leg touching the ground, supporting the middle beam to reinforce support towards the center. Some panel bed frames come with seven slats, including the three standard slats and two additional slats in between those.
But for many, the mystery of adequate support remains, often posing the question requiring an indefinite answer: How many slats do I need? After some platform bed info, we will highlight how many slats you need for sufficient support, even for big, tall, husky, and muscular body types.
Platform Beds
Platforms come together similarly to panel beds, using a rail system, but usually utilize more slats, hence their name, platform. The included components provide an adequate support system with no boxspring or bunkie board needed. Often, platforms come with 7-12 horizontal slats, or sometimes, they are solid instead of slatted on top. A zero clearance adjustable base is a versatile type of adjustable that is often required if you aim to pair it with a platform-style bed frame. The most common and readily available frames are panel and platform bed frames with slats, which can both work harmoniously with a Bed Tech zero clearance adjustable base.
Platform beds have gained popularity for their simplistic design cohesive for contemporary and minimalist interior styles, making them a perfect fit with an upgraded, modern, and multi-functioning adjustable base. The big reveal is that zero clearance adjustable bases are specifically versatile when paired with all kinds of beds: canopy beds, sleigh beds, and even wooden and upholstered beds with slats, a headboard, and a footboard. Also, you'll be pleased to know that most headboard and footboard frames can accommodate an adjustable base, even if you have a storage bed frame with drawers underneath.
Now that you know that you can put an adjustable base on slats, the next questions often posed are: What is a zero clearance adjustable base, and how many slats do you need?
With A Zero-Clearance Adjustable Base: How Many Slats Do You Really Need?
For sufficient support with or without an adjustable base, there should be 3-12 slats or a solid surface to support the weight of the mattress, base, and sleepers on top. Before revealing how many slats you need to use with an adjustable base, we will delve into the cutting-edge adjustable bed technology explicitly meant to ease furniture compatibility.
A zero-clearance adjustable base specifically accommodates two different setup configurations with one adjustable base, allowing the versatility of a stand-alone base combined with the option of putting it directly on slats. This means you can enjoy the benefits of an adjustable base without compromising the look and feel of your existing bed frame.
Standard Setup- To set up the base in the standard format, the legs that come with the adjustable bed will screw into the steel framework underneath, allowing the base to stand alone or inside an existing panel bed with slats removed. After removing the slats, an adjustable base, like the Bed Tech BTX5, with standard configuration can stand on its legs and be put inside most other frames with a headboard and footboard, like wooden and upholstered beds, as long as they do not have storage drawers. A team lift of two or more people is required to lift an adjustable base strategically up and inside the existing framework. Or, if the frame or headboard is the new addition to the mix, it can be built around the adjustable bed instead.
Zero Clearance
An adjustable base with zero clearance is a significant upgrade, allowing two installation formats: standard, with legs, or, in the zero-clearance configuration, without the legs. While it can fully operate by lifting the head or feet up and down, the steel framework within the zero-clearance base structure eliminates protruding parts that make it impossible to be put on top of something else, like a platform bed.
Hence the name, a zero clearance adjustable base requires little to no clearance underneath. Both base styles will look and feel alike, with the same user-friendly maneuverability when lifting or lowering. Still, the necessary clearance underneath the unit is the primary differentiator between the two. As mentioned with the standard base setup, the same applies here. A team lift of two or more people is required to lift any adjustable base strategically up and on top of the existing framework.
The innovation behind zero clearance engineering permits an adjustable base to accompany many different bed frames, including slatted bed frames and storage or platform beds with drawers. Place the base directly on a solid surface or slats while maintaining full functionality to move up or down. It’s official, being versatile and functional is what zero-clearance adjustable bases do best!
Lucky Number Seven
The bottom line is that with an adjustable bed in the mix, seven or more slats will create sufficient support for the adjustable base's added weight. At least one central support leg is also highly recommended. Without an adjustable base, you can get away with the standard slat count; sometimes, there are only three to five. Often in these scenarios, the more, the better. Either way, as with any piece of furniture, you will want to ensure that it is in good condition and has substantial quality to withstand the weight of the mattress, adjustable base, and sleepers on top.
Boost Bedroom Functionality And Experience Quintessential Comfort with Bed Tech
Intelligent products that provide ergonomic accommodations for the home and office are in high demand. The Bed Tech sleep experts officially reveal that an adjustable base is the smart bed base of the future, offering personalization for ergonomic support and intuitive comfort for just about any body type in the bed. With an adjustable base, you can support proper posture, lift and lower your head and feet, enjoy relaxing massage routines, or lounge in the Zero-G position to reduce lower back pain or inflammation.
Whether you are looking to help manage sleep deprivation or snoring, or looking to heal from an injury or lounge more comfortably, an adjustable base serves a variety of necessities by enabling customization of your bed base and unique personalization like never before.
Uplift a Healthy Bedtime Routine With
Your Existing Frame Paired With An Upgraded Adjustable Base
After all, sleep is a pillar of our overall health and wellness, so more and more people are considering an optimal bedroom environment to improve sleep patterns. In the past, it was rare to hear someone boasting about a bed frame, a less noticeable piece of furniture, making the bed base an often overlooked piece of the puzzle. But why? The oversight of a multi-functional, adapting bed base may leave you feeling like your sleep quality lacks more to desire.
With sleep deprivation on the rise, Bed Tech emphasizes the importance of recuperative sleep cycles, starting with the influence of your mattress and bed base. Enlightenment surrounding the importance of sleep as a pillar of health should motivate you to prioritize sleeping well by considering the role of your bed base in achieving it.
Today, you can start by maintaining your style, boosting versatility inside the bedroom, and sleeping better with a Bed Tech adjustable base. You're invited to the Bed Tech family to experience our innovative adjustable bases utilizing top-tier components, precision, and mechanical reliability.
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Suppose you've been pursuing ways to sleep better but keep falling short with relentless sleep disruptions like tossing and turning from pain or sore spots. In that case, we hope the Bed Tech sleep experts have helped restore confidence in maintaining decorative flair while boosting comfort and your potential sleep health. Bed Tech makes it easy to find an adjustable base to accompany an existing or entirely new bed frame.
Using a Bed Tech adjustable base, also known as an adjustable bed frame, means you can experience optimal support for the curvature of your back and body alongside undeniable comfort using an upgraded, functional, and durable mattress base. Specifically, a Bed Tech adjustable base is a reliable way to inspire a comfortably rewarding sleep experience while preserving an awesome value.
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