The Box Spring Story

When Caleb and I bought this house, we never thought about furniture fitting (or not fitting) upstairs in our master bedroom. When the movers tried taking our queen mattress upstairs, we realized our stairs are abnormally steep and narrow. The mattress barely made it upstairs, but it took quite a bit of bending, smushing, forcing, etc. However, there was no way our box spring would make it. The movers explained this bizarre story about people cutting their box spring in half, folding it to fit through the stairway, and then re-bracing it once in the room. They also said we could buy split queen box springs similar to using two twins for a king bed.

So Caleb and I first priced out the split queen box springs and realized it would cost around $300. I don't think so. We figured what have we got to lose by cutting and folding the box spring? If it breaks, we buy the split queens. If we don't try it, we are still buying the split queens. But - if it works, then that's $300 we don't have to spend. :)So Caleb carefully pulled out the staples to remove the material and then cut the box spring on the wooden side. We realized that with the wooden slats cut, the metal wires were bending pretty easily. So we stood the box spring in the stairway and bent it about 20°......still wasn't going to fit. Bummer.

Caleb and I spent the next couple weeks in the guest room in a full size bed next to a window with a horrible draft. Then we decided to revisit the sad box spring that was taking over our office. But this time we were going to fold it completely in half and tie it with a jump rope to keep it together. Believe it or now, it actually worked! And once we got it upstairs, the box spring unfolded easily and looked like new! Caleb just re-braced the wood along the cuts and stapled the material back. :)