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I have an Ikea Malm frame. I've had it for the past four years. It's held up great and never had any issues during our 'fun times'!
PS. It also has the wooden slats!
We have an Ikea bed and mattress (equally broke!) and they've held up really well. I think ours has the same construction as your old one (the wooden slats), but maybe you just got really unlucky b/c we've had ours for 3 years and it's been fine. Not the best mattress, but I like the bed itself a lot.
I have had one of their wood bed frames that I didn't pay a lot for and it has held up for the last 9 years. I love it.
We have an ikea bedframe as well. About two or three wooden slats have broken over the almost 3-years that we've had the bed, but other than that, it's in good condition and the broken slats haven't caused the mattress to fall or anything.
We have a Hemnes bed frame - it awas $300, so not one of their cheapest frames. It's held up really well and never broken on us.
I had a Malm bedframe. It was decent up until I started dating the boy, but from then on during our 'fun' times some of the wooden slats would frequently fall through. I know other people who have had this issue with Malm.
You can probably save even more money on a bed by finding on the theirs on Craigslist! I know I always see Ikea stuff for sale on there.
is there anything that we could use other then ikeas cheap boards?? Maybe we could just buy really sturdy wood panels ourselves and that would hold up better??
I had one for several years and now my brother and his wife have it in their spare room - it's held up really well! Mine had metal side beams, but I don't think they make the particular model anymore.
I've had the Malm for 6 years, including 3 moves and it's held up great. No issues whatsoever!
I had one of their metal frames and it held up really well - have had it for 7 years and moved 4-5 times!
we have the entire Hopen set and it's been great. no squeaking or anything either :)
We have a Hemnes bed, and it's been great! It's held up through all of our fun bedtime activities. ;)
The Hemnes bed frame has held up pretty well in our house too... Pluse the dressers that go with it are great - big drawers with lots of storage! We're slowly getting away from IKEA in the rest of the house (barring bookshelves, we need too many!) but the bedroom furniture is not getting replaced!
Oh ladies thanks! I actually WANTED the Hemnes bed too! Fancy that! What color do you ladies have? Im leaning towards white as its clean and refreshing feeling...but ive never decorated white furniture : O
I have no idea of the model name (somethign with an umlaut, I'm sure), but my metal IKEA bedframe has lasted me five years and three moves. No squeaking, breaking, slat falling or other issues.
We have the black-brown Hemnes. My FI and I tend to gravitate towards dark colors. I do love how refreshing the white looks though!
Another Malm owner here - but the wooden slats did break on mine. Only one broke though, and we still use it. We have had it for 6 years. Hope that helps!
I have one with the wooden slats and it is pretty sturdy! Had it for two years, and no problems yet!
We have a platform bed from IKEA, and that thing is sturdy as a rock, even under the most....vigerous....of circumstances ;). Love it! We were skeptical, too, but it's help up amazingly for 4 years!
I had an Ikea bed frame, the Malm I think, that lasted me for about 4-5 years. When it started breaking it seemed to be because the mattresses were too heavy for it or something. I think if I'd had less heavy mattresses I'd probably still have that bed frame, but I'm just speculating. Anyhoo, it was cheap and looked good and it was sturdy enough to last a few years :)
We have the Malm frame and have had no problems because a)we used wood glue in addition to the screws to put it together b)got the more expensive bed slats because we have a not so great mattress.
The first Malm frame I had was a while back. I had in it a standard soft-ish mattress on top of a boxframe. After moving around, I had to repeg it to the upper slot because the bottom one was getting loose. A few wooden slats also broke, but you can replace those easy since you buy it seperately anyway.
When I first arrived in Sweden, we needed to upgrade our bed ASAP and wanted to save money so Ikea was our option. The Fi already had a bed from there and they usually double-up the beds to make it larger (so it's small beds in 1 frame). I thought it was really weird at first and a little concerned since the mattresses here have a bottom with a built-in boxframe so it weighs a ton and rock hard.
Turned out it's sturdier than ever! I think it's ideally made for the Swedish style, hard mattress. We now have an equivalent of a Cal King with a Sealy Memory Foam topper on it. It works great! No issues at all and it saved us a ton of money.
I've had mine for almost 4 years. The metal beam down the center has bent over time and we have a major dent from where we sleep every night. It's super comfortable and we're waiting until we can afford a new bedroom set before we upgrade. Just be aware, it might not last forever, but you should be able to get a solid couple years out of it.
I've had mixed experiences!
My bed in high school was a really low end Ikea bed - it cost about $100 for a full size frame when we bought it, I think it was their cheapest model. And with good reason! It was a piece of crap, and, embarrassingly enough, R & I broke it. (In our defense, hormones at 16 are crazy!) Haha.
Our bed now is the Hemnes, and it's been wonderful. I moved it from R's parents' house where I stored it, to my first apartment (up 6 flights of narrow stairs) to our apartment now. It's held up beautifully to things that it should not have held up to!
So I would really look at the individual frame. Go for the thick actual wood rather than their particle board furniture. "Splurging" in Ikea furniture often pays off, and it's not nearly a splurge compared to Pottery Barn or whatever.
This is SO WEIRD. I was just talking to DH last night about the Hemnes bedframe (not the 4-poster one but the one that's on the commercial). Does anyone know if we HAVE to use the slats, etc? We have a plain metal bedframe right now that I'd just like to hook it to...
@JeniRae - I'm not sure how that'd work, because the bed is set up with steel attachments that support the slat system and you attach a steel bar that runs down the middle of the bed. But if you could get it to work (i.e., if you or DH knows your way around that kind of thing), it'd be nice... I personally hate the Ikea slat system. I feel like every time we lift the mattress they get all messed up!
PS: one thing I LOVE about the Hemnes is that it's not super-short like so many Ikea beds. We also have one of their really thick mattress pads, which I paid $80 for, and it's worth its weight in gold.
To all the ladies that purchased the hemnes,
are you able to store anything underneath? is there any room?
What color do you have?
were buying our bed in may and im so stoked!
We have the Malm and the slats do fall occassionally. When I was examining the bed recently, I realized that there is a 1/2 gap in the middle of the bed where the slats don't quite meet. This meant that they could shift towards the middle and fall on the edges. I went to home depot and spent $5 on a piece of wood that was 1/2" thick and just wedged it into the middle. It feels incredibly secure now. It was a quick fix for an annoying problem! Oh, it's the dark brown/black malm.
I also have the Ikea Malm bed and TV cabinet. The TV cabinet it in my living room. I'm in a small condo and I love the furniture. I've moved the bed twice now and it has still held up. Like emshaw mentioned, it has wooden slats which means you only have to buy a matress and not a box spring. I didn't buy the slats from Ikea though. I found it cheaper to buy the wood and cut it myself. I've always wanted to add the nightstands to my bed...
Most of my other funiture came from a Rooms to Go outlet. Seeing as this was my first place, I wanted to keep it cheap and didn't mind a scuff or two. I ended up with a side table, couch, rug, lounge chair, and dining set for about $1500 total.
@Osakagirl - we have the black, and we don't store anything under there because while there's room under the bed the sideboards come down too far to comfortably get things in and out.
@lilyfaith- DANG! My guy is so crazy anal about that stuff. he insists we HAVE to have a bed that can fit under the bed storage since our place is so small = = ;;;
I still want that bed dangit!!
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Hey Bees I have a question for you all!
So the boy and I are getting new bedroom furniture after the wedding. At the moment we only want to buy IKEA as we are a fairly young couple that doesnt want to invest in nice furniture until we buy a home. We just move too much to buy the nice stuff.
SO -- that leads us to IKEA. oh IKEA how affordable you are! But I dont have experience with their bed frames! I slept at a home that had the cheapy 50 dollars frame and when uhm...my boy and i...urm were having "fun time" it BROKE! the wooden beams holding up the mattress broke. I laughed and was mortified at the same time. Can the more expensive IKEA bed frames hold up? Or will I have to worry about the bed literally caving in under us?
Feedback appreciated!!