to want to spend £2k on a bed for guest room?

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Just that really. I wanted to take advantage of the 30% M&S home event and get a new bed for the guest room we recently decorated. Cost includes Super King divan base, headboard and mattress.

Asked DH his opinion and he says that it's much too expensive for a guest bed and what's wrong with the (crappy Ikea) bed we already have (that creaks horribly when anyone moves on it!). We were planning on getting nice new wardrobes so I think the bed we have will look even more crap with those!

For info, DH has a very good job so we can easily afford it (I'm a SAHM with 2 Primary age kids). I think he's a bit out of touch with how much nice beds cost, or AIBU?

And although upholstered headboards are fashionable now, you may hate it and want to change it in ten years' time.

squoosh those are really lovely. Thanks for the link.

Not sure they'll be massively cheaper when you add the cost of a new sprung mattress though? (needs to be a half decent one as both MIL and I have back issues).

I'd get a warren Evans bed in the sale then a John Lewis mattress, special buy high coil count. Altogether shouldn't be more than £1200.

You do sound like a great hostess OP if you want to spend so much on the guest bed!

"And although upholstered headboards are fashionable now, you may hate it and want to change it in ten years' time."

squoosh that's a very good point. I do really like the M&S one as I think it's quite a classic look I wouldn't want to change quickly, but a nice wooden bed from Oak Furniture Land might be a bit more future proof.

"How much for bed and how much for £50 notes to spread around on the top for rolling on? "

Moving you got me! Maybe fewer notes would mean fewer paper cuts to the nether regions.

why a super-king for a guest room? Cant you get a normal king size. Do you have entire families of co-sleepers staying a lot?

why a super-king for a guest room? Cant you get a normal king size. Do you have entire families of co-sleepers staying a lot?

Once you've slept in a super King you can't go back! Good for tall people so they can go a bit diagonal.

The guest bed gets used by guests and us too at various times squoosh

It's a guest bed but also a "you've had WAY too much booze on your night out and you're going to snore all night and keep me awake - so in you go" bed.

Branlause a few of the male in laws are well over 6' and fairly sturdy. Super King is probably a necessity for them as they can be staying for 4 or 5 nights over Christmas.

I like the bed & id buy it as I imagined it will make your room look lovely. However we have £1000 M&S mattress & it's terrible. Get a cheaper mattress.

DP and I used to have a King sized but we had to buy a new bed and only got a double. Never realised how much of a bed hogger he was. Nearly smothered him with his pillow.

Lesley good to know about the mattress thanks

I really want that bed. 😴

We have toweling squares for the inevitable secretions

Portia Just....(shakes head in disgust)

Just jealous Jess

I think that a double bed would spell trouble for us in our own room...he's a bed hogger/snorer and I roll over a lot (apparently!)

being. What's wrong with a good old-fashioned (and in my case, completely unnecessary) mattress protector?

Portia waterproof mattress protectors are the way forward!

That way you're not tethered to the one spot - or maybe you are? I don't know?

Here's me respectably salivating over a fancy bed and you lot are just lowering the tone!

Typical!

They make such a plonky noise though and obviously if the handcuffs are in use one's movements are somewhat restricted

YABVU. I get that you want your house to look a certain way, but spending 2k on a guest bed is ridiculous. Just get another Ikea bed if you hate this one so much!

If you can afford it, and you like it, buy it! There's absolutely nothing wrong with having nice things.

Buy a lovely headboard and decent cheaper bed then you can easily change the headboard as the fashion changes.

Oak won't always be in fashion either.

As you sleep in there sometimes, have guests with back probs and larger people stay and have the money I'd say it depends on how good the mattress really is.

I have a £2,500 kingsize mattress with 2500 pocket springs. I can't sleep on any other bed due to pain from physical disabilities. It was worth every penny.