Join the Make a Bed Foundation Today

Long ago and far away, I made a post about the desire for a new and improved bed. It was, to say the least, a sort of "in a perfect world" blog. I am, however and once again, determined to make some improvements on my sleeping arrangements.

Namely:
- I don't want to have my bed on or within a foot of the floor. This may just be my mind jumping to illogical conclusions, but I feel that this encourages my dust allergies to flare up and my night's rest to be less fulfilling.
- Really, I guess that the allergies and lack of a productive night's rest are the two main areas of improvements that I wish to address.

I've given up on a new mattress for now, as I believe that what the mattress sits on is more important. I've given up on anything too fancy, because it just makes no sense. IKEA works just fine for me. So, I'm likely going with a solid pine bed frame with solid pine drawers (all except for the bottoms of the drawers, and I'm okay with that). I don't bother with anything from IKEA that isn't solid anymore; particleboard IKEA furniture breaks within a year (usually less). I'm actually a bigger fan of this other bed without drawers and its less expensive which is a plus, but drawers are in very short supply and I'm tired of clothing being stacked in every inconvenient place possible.

In addition, I'm looking at a slatted bed base to help with the comfort of the bed. I wouldn't mind a wall mounted head board, but I can live without it.

I was mostly inspired by the fact that I seem to have contracted some form of an infection from my coworker, and when you sleep in a bad bed after already feeling achy, you wake up rather angrily inspired to have a comfortable night's rest. I've also been toying with the idea that I don't get a good enough night's sleep every night and that days in which I am prone to be irritable become exponentially worse as a result. It's just a hypothesis, I don't have any desire to undergo sleep studies to find out if that's why I feel like crap when I wake up or not.

Speaking of sleep, however, I think I am going to try and get some more.