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?

I just want to know what people do in beds that makes them so expensive......

Earn a lot of money....

Vanilla, maybe they aren't rewarding the attention seeking behaviour.

Fornicate

Earn the money to pay for such expensive cars.

Ah well honeymoons in Maui are more expensive

Yabu. Spend a couple of hundred and done the rest to a homelessNess charity.

Reading the title I originally thought 2k on a bed was madness but having read the post I can easily see spending £800 on a good mattress and then the rest on the bed doesn't seem quite so outrageous.
Due to some weirdness with moving back from overseas we have ended up with top quality mattresses for both our bed and the spare bed. The one in the spare room is much firmer and I've taken up residence in there whilst I'm huge and pregnant as its much more supportive. I can see DH ending up in there a lot when the baby is tiny too once he's back at work.
It's also good for my mum and my FIL (not together!) who both have back problems.
So for us a good mattress on the spare room bed is actually a real bonus, admittedly the base didn't cost anything near £1.2k but if the money is there that doesn't seem totally outrageous. It really depends if it's going to get used a couple of times a year or a couple of times a week!

I love the upholstered beds, but I think they will go out of fashion very quickly. A few years ago were were ripping padded headboards out just like those. You will not want it in 10 years.

What type of car costs £76k cash? Is it a new caravan? You'd never fit a 6ft bed in there, love.

Maybe a porsche

You've killed the thread Portia shakes head

You fed the monster Portia....

Porsche make caravans now?

That is a beautiful bed. You can get something very similar in look and quality for a lot less...I like quality too and will pay for it but that is insane, I agree with the others.

If you can do simple diy, one of our beds my husband and I made and it is upholstered similar to your pic. I drew a curve on a piece of wood with a sharpie, my husband cut it out, and we stapled foam, batting, and a pretty Laura Ashley fabric I got on sale. You could use silver velvet, it would be lovely. You could add the tufting. And since this is a square headboard, you wouldn't even need to cut. We attached ours to some posts that went halfway up the board. It looks fantastic. Took a couple of hours and we spent probably $100 if that. And we don't do much diy. It was so simple.

Here it is. You can add tufting, wouldn't be hard.

Who me? What monster ?

It's definitely a good thing to have a very comfortable spare bed but I wouldn't bother with wardrobes in a spare room. A nice rail and hangers is what I want when I'm away.

Have you looked at Next? They tend to have fancy headboards & beds

We have an ikea bed, it is incredibly comfortable, nothing crappy about it at all.

Barbara not saying all IKEA beds are crappy. The ones we have are ancient and falling apart and most definitely crappy though!

Belle intrigued by your DIY suggestion. I'd love to give this a bash but given our previous DIY disasters we'd most likely end up with something hideous/divorced/in casualty!

I live in a different world!

My own bed cost £250 for the frame and £150 for the mattress. My dds bed frame was about £50 from Argos and her mattress was about £90. We all sleep well! I guess if you have the money and it doesn't matter then fair enough but you don't need to spend that much to have a decent nights sleep!

To me that sounds like a crashing waste of money. What a boring thing to spend two grand on. It's not even a bed that you're going to be sleeping in!

Hmm. Can see the point of getting a good quality mattress. OH has a bad back so tosses and turns a lot especially on saggy mattresses and as a result I don't sleep either. We sleep terribly in a standard sized doubles. I love love love superking sized beds. It's a massive negative with us staying anywhere as we both end up shattered. Of course we'd never be honest and tell friends where we've stayed but we really struggle to sleep.
So I think wanting a big comfy bed for guests is very kind.

Personally I don't see the point of spending a load on the actual bed (it's mattress quality, age and size that I think make a difference) but if you like it and can afford it then just do it.

Can we come and stay? 😄