Bed frames

A bed frame does more than hold your mattress up, it sets the tone for the whole room. Choose from timber, wooden or upholstered styles, with or without a headboard, and add underbed storage or a gas lift base if your bedroom needs to work a little harder.

Choosing the right bed frame size

If you haven't landed on a size yet, this is genuinely the place to start. Single and king single bed frames suit children's rooms, bunk beds, and compact spaces where every centimetre is doing real work. Double bed frames are a practical middle ground for solo sleepers who want room to move or couples working with a smaller bedroom. Queen bed frames are Australia's most popular size for good reason, roomy enough for two without swallowing a standard bedroom whole. And, if you're feeling adventurous, a king bed frame or super king bed frame are the biggest standard options available and very difficult to regret. Not sure what fits your room? The Forty Winks bed size guide has every dimension and floor space recommendation in one place.

How to choose the right bed frame

Once you've nailed the size, the enjoyable part starts. Here's what to think through:

Style and material

Material sets the personality of the whole bedroom, which makes it the most satisfying place to start. A timber bed frame brings warmth, natural character, and the kind of durability that earns its place in a room for years. Wooden bed frames deliver a very similar aesthetic at a more affordable price and still look sharp long-term. Upholstered bed frames add softness and a finished, considered look that's hard to replicate any other way. Platform bed frames offer a clean, low-profile feel that's almost impossible to style wrong. There's a bed frame style for every bedroom here, which is either reassuring or a little overwhelming depending on where you're starting from. Our team is very good at the narrowing-down part.

Headboards

Never underestimate a good headboard. A bed frame with a headboard finishes the whole look of a bedroom and gives you something to actually lean against, which turns out to matter considerably more than it sounds until you don't have one. Some frames include a headboard as part of the design. Others are sold as a base only so you can mix and match to get exactly the right combination. If you want the room to look complete without having to source everything separately, it's worth filtering for frames that include one.

Height and storage

Bed height is more important than most people expect. A high bed frame gives a room a more traditional, substantial feel and makes getting in and out noticeably easier, which matters more than it sounds on a slow morning. A platform frame keeps things low, open, and contemporary. And if your bedroom is short on space, a storage bed frame with built-in drawers or a gas lift base is one of those upgrades you'll wonder how you ever managed without.

Get help choosing a bed frame in store

Scale, finish, and the way a frame actually reads in a room are the things that only click when you're standing in front of it. As a proudly Australian, family-owned retailer with stores right across the country, we'd much rather help you get it right than have you quietly second-guessing it on the drive home.

If a new mattress is part of the plan too, make a day of it and book a Forty Winks bedMATCH^® session while you're in store. Available exclusively at every Forty Winks store nationwide, Forty Winks bedMATCH^® is a sleep diagnostic system, personalised and backed by sleep science, that takes 18 precise body measurements and runs over 1,000 calculations to match you to your ideal level of support. The right frame and the right mattress, sorted in one visit.

Bed frame brands, ranges and price points

Our bed frames come from makers including Linksea Furniture, GL International, Swan Bedding, Silver Lynx, Stoke Furniture, T&R Furniture, Coringle Furniture and LV Furniture, covering everyday upholstered frames through to premium solid Australian timber. Along the way you will find gas lift and drawer storage frames, bookshelf bedheads, frames with built-in LED lighting, and even an electric lift base that raises at the touch of a remote. If you want a frame made locally, browse our Australian Made bed frames; if storage is the priority, start with storage beds or gas lift beds. Afterpay and other finance options are available if you would rather spread the cost.