<p>We have a couple of nearly antique beds that are dwarfed by today’s extra tall mattresses. Has any one seen a safe product to lift the headboard & footboard up so that they can be seen about the fat mattress and the tons of pillows now in fashion?</p>
<p>I have a bed that was built by my great uncle in around 1940.
We bought a new foam mattress & platform from bedinabox. They have different thicknesses.</p>
<p>We inherited a pair of 150-yr old black walnut beds made by my H’s great grandfather. Unfortunately they are 2 inches shorter & 3 inches narrower than standard twin mattresses. I ended up going to a place that works with high density foam to make seats & mattresses, the kind that you find in campers, RVs and boats. We use the beds in our guest room, so they don’t get used on a daily basis, but the foam mattresses have held up well over the past 10 years.</p>
<p>Also - did not use a box spring. Mattresses sit on top of a plywood board that has a thin layer of batting to prevent “bottoming out” on the wood. With the foam mattress, it’s actually quite comfortable. And has thinner profile than contemporary mattresses.</p>
<p>That’s the main reason we bought a “regular” Tempurpedic. It wasn’t any thicker than our old mattress…we didn’t need ALL new linens and our headboard/footboard (also quite old) work with these.</p>
<p>The thicker pillow tops just didn’t work.</p>
<p>we don’t have an antique bed , but we did have one custom made so that we could skip the boxspring…I can’t imagine how high it would have been off of the ground , had we had both mattress and boxspring…would have needed a step stool to get in</p>