The Best Smart Bed Frames to Buy Online

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So you’ve recently bought a new mattress online. While changing your mattress is one of the surest ways to make your sleep experience more comfortable, your mattress isn’t the only piece of furniture that’s influential in this equation. Bed frames are equally important and equally challenging to navigate.

Luckily, there are smart bed frames. Smart bed frames can be ordered online and shipped to your door in boxes that are easy to handle and transport. Once you’ve got the box settled into the room in which you’d like to set up your new bed frame, you can take the frame out and reasonably expect to have the frame set up within five to ten minutes – without the use of tools. Everything — from the assembly to the type of sleep these frames help provide — is all about ease.

What Makes a Good Bed Frame?

When shopping for a smart bed frame, it’s important to realize that smart bed frames and smart mattresses are sold separately. While they all have a quick, hassle-free assembly in common, the degree of each foundation’s “smarts” will vary. The foundation you get will depend on how high-tech you want your bed to be, and your personal needs as a sleeper.

Some smart bed frames are simple, sturdy steel structures that replace your old box spring foundation. These models can often be used with a variety of mattress types: spring, foam, or hybrid. Other smart bed frames are actually electric. They are connected to remote controls and have the ability to adjust the head and the feet of the frame independently, working in tandem with an adjustable mattress. With these frames, you would also need a smart mattress with the same abilities. While these models are a little more complicated, they help alleviate back or knee pain, and they also offer luxuries such as massages and anti-snore technology.