I love platform beds, but I want them to be tall enough to clean under easily, and since I am tall, I don't want to have to struggle to get in or out. I loathe all of the accouterments needed for tall beds (box springs and something to cover it from sight). My minimalist soul really likes to keep it very basic, clean and simple.

I love the modern look and the simple lines. I hate the low beds though and I am not particularly tall either.

i love the look of platform beds. I made one for myself in college, meaning for it to be low to the ground, but i guess my calculations were quite off. it ended up being very high. when i moved and just had my matress on the ground before i rebuilt my bed, a woke up one morning to a mouse on my toe, so i will never have a low bed, ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

My bed is about the same height as the one in the last picture - off the ground, but still fairly low. I don't see the need for a tall bed, and all the extra stuff like box springs, bed skirt, etc.

short enough that my Jack Russell terrier can make the jump--tall enough that i can store my guitar cases underneath it.

I grew up with a tall bed and recently my husband and I put our box spring and mattress right on the ground. We love it short and low and will probably never go back to high beds. Of course we are not tall people, 5'2" and 5'7", just slightly under average height.

My husband and I are both tall.. I'm 5'10" and he's 6'5", so having a bed up high works very well for the both of us!

I dont want to be on the ground but low platforms I prefer. I dont understand what a box springs is for. And what's the the deal with new mattresses being one sided now?

Tall beds do not need a boxspring! We made our tall bed with 4 x 4's cut the desired length for legs and made a slatted frame for the mattress to sit on (plywood would work too) Looks clean, you DONT need a bedskirt, you can store stuff under it in funky suitcases or wire askets. Looks cool and you can clean under it easily You can also use log or tree rounds for legs. Or you can paint the 4 x 4 legs black or whatever suits you. We left ours natural.

I don't like tall at all, but maybe just a bit higher than ON the ground. I really love the #8 bed.

I've never used a really low one, but I would probably miss the under-bed storage!

I love this Bed. i saw the exact one at http://www.highfashionhome.com/ last weekend!!!!

beds on the floor look terribly unfinished to me - even when they are very purposeful and well-executed. but, of course, we just moved our bed off its (junky metal) frame to lower it enough to get in and out of easily. It is now box springs, mattress, topper, and it is a very good height for comfort but i hate the way it looks.

clearly it's time to make that wood bedframe i keep talking about - keep the same low height, which will look good with our low ceilings, but get back the clean, open space under the bed.

The lack of substantial closet space in our apartment led me to build my own extra-high bed frame so I could fit storage bins underneath. It took me a while to get used to getting in and out of it -- One of the first mornings I completely misjudged the distance to the floor and went flying. I would love to have a lower platform bed and am in the process of getting rid of things so I don't need under the bed for storage.

I keep all of my suitcases under the bed. I have no idea where they would go if my bedframe wasn't on risers. In fact, I've been searching for years for a reasonably priced storage bed or very high bed that would fit suitcases below (I'd love Flou, but that's not reasonable for me). If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Low! We have an Ikea one that is13 inches off the ground, it's the perfect height (in my opinion). Easy to clean under, you can store things if you want, and if getting up is a problem you can always just kind of roll out (like I did when I was pregnant). But it's not on the floor.

Tall all the way! :)

As a tall girl, a tall long bed means plenty of room for me, and being able to swing my long legs out of bed each morning at just the right height.
Bliss.
And there's a certain aesthetic grandeur, if that makes sense. Scale is important, and I'd feel weird sleeping in something too low, like I was crawling on the ground.

However, the short low bed is also a great thing and not to be dismissed.
I was asleep (and a little drunk) in my futon in Japan when a earthquake struck (thankfully, I was not living in the epicentre, but living many kilometres away).
It was my first earthquake, and my apartment shook like Barbie's dreamhouse being demolished by an angry five-year-old, but at least I wasn't thrown out of bed. Where would I fall to?
Everything else got trashed, but I was grateful.
Hooray for the low lovely futon!

Let me just say that the 'high beds' in this post are nothing compared to the awful stupid bed I bought from IKEA.

It was on sale and it was called "MORRUM", which I joked to friends, should be called the Moron bed because anyone that buys it - is a moron.

With a boxspring - I still need a stepstool to climb into it. I'm nearly 5'10! Removing the box spring, it's still difficult to get into normally. The bed is nearly 4 feet high.

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I got it because I needed the storage space underneath, but now I just want to get rid of it.

I had a low full-size platform bed that I built just as I wanted. I loved that bed. Now I have a higher queen-size bed (with box spring). Dang, that 6'-4" boyfriend, not wanting his feet to hang off the end! I don't mind the larger bed. Though it has changed the whole scale of the bedroom, so now everything else in the room needs to be readjusted.

I have set the bed height to be about waist high to facilitate *ahem* bedroom activities. Storage below is a bonus. How people live with a mattress on the floor in closet starved NYC is beyond my comprehension.

I have freakishly short legs and love a low bed.

I vote for high beds! I will do anything to prevent my Aussie Shepherd from jumping on our white sheets, and he loves to sleep under our wire framed king, tucked deep in the corner. Also you can't complain about the height when your deep in "zombie mode" mid night. I can safely get out of bed and move about.... no more whoops moments!

Just got a new bed it is very tall. The one on the store was not as tall as the one delivered. Seems the one in the store was on a low profile box spring (for easy display) that they now tell me I could of requested. I even commented to them about the beds in other stores being to tall and how I liked the ones this store because they were not tall. I called them and was told all beds come with high profile box springs, I should of requested a low profile box spring. How would I know that if they did not ask me or offer me the choice!!! I had stood right there and commented about the lower bed!!! They just wanted to make the sale!!! Now I have to place my hands on the mattress and climb into it on my hands and knees. My bedside tables are so low that I am not able to see my alarm without sitting up. I am unable to sit on the side of the bed because my feet dangle off of the bed to dress or reach my shoes on the floor!!! Others need the use of the bathroom so to take the extra time to dress in there is holding up others. I have now taken a dining room chair upstairs into the bedroom so that I have a place to sit without my feet dangling off the bed!!! I am not happy with having to lug it up and down to the table when it is needed for dining. I am 53 and 5'5" of average height starting to have ache's and pains of getting older. I would think a high profile bed is not something you would be wanting as you get older. I passed on many beds that were tall in the stores they show them as sets, leading you to think that what you see is what you get. I was informed by my store that I could buy a bedside steps that they sell for $75!!! I have been looking other places for them. I do not want to buy on line because I wish to make sure that they are the right height size to what I need. I am very upset that I will now have to invest in a bedside steps to make my bed easy to get into and out of. Now I just hope that in the middle the night I don't slip in my sock in feet and fall on the bedside steps getting in and out of bed the dark!!! I just want to sit on the side of my bed and tuck my feet up without having to crawl in like a little child or having a ladder to get into it with!!!