I have a Universal Furniture Spencer platform storage bed and it squeaks like crazy. It has a drawers in the front and I hate it due to the noise. Every movement— squeak! It’s at a vacation home so I don’t use it much at all. If it were my primary, it would have been gone years ago. Never again for me.

I am having my bed custom built by someone with a great reputation. So I will address this with him to make sure that if I decide to built storage into the bed, I will not have the same problem with squeaking. Thanks for putting this on my radar!

Used to have one. Only so-so convenient. Thoughts:

- If you're looking at a king, definitely go with drawers. The mattress would be much too heavy to lift up, and the tuck-in sheets would come loose every time you lifted the mattress. Additionally, I'd feel a little unsafe -- even with a bar holding up the mattress -- as I fetched stuff from the middle of the under-bed.

- Definitely go with smaller drawers. The whole-width drawer would be much too unweildy to pull out conveniently.

- Note that a night stand will prevent drawers at the head of the bed from pulling out. That might be okay if you're storing, say, Christmas ornaments, but definitely a problem for everyday clothing.

- Mine, too, was custom made -- and extra tall. Getting it into the room was problematic. The people who delivered it removed the trim around the door to get those extra few inches, and -- even then -- only barely got the thing into the room.

- We did not have problems with squeaking.

@Mrs Pete Thanks so much for that info! Very helpful!