I love the bamboo style bed. Bummer that it's harder to find though. I think big white fluffy linens look particularly sharp and inviting set against a traditional wooden bed. My second choice would be the metal bed. They are all lovely.

I'm a "footboard" gal as I find the covers tend to slip off the foot of the bed when there is no footboard. It drives me crazy every summer for 4 weeks in our vacation rental.

They're all nice classic beds. Which do YOU prefer?

I am in the "no" camp because I live in a modernist house with small bedrooms. I like the bamboo bed.

I have a love/hate relationship with our bed that has a solid footboard as opposed to the first two you show with spindles. It can make getting fitted sheets on more challenging but I keep our mattress and box springs pushed up to the head board as far as they'll go and don't have an issue. Visually it makes the room heavier but spindles would be less so. What I love is I no longer battle with DH about not tucking the top sheet and having the bed look a mess - he finds a tucked sheet constricting. But with the solid footboard it doesn't show and the bed looks properly made.

Ha! I have those nights, too but for the most part sleep with little wandering.

I like all three. I used to have an antique brass bed very much like the metal one you show. I like a footboard, I think it’s a more traditional look.

Let me warn you that if you stub your toes on the iron posts.... OUCH. Much worse than if you do it on wood.

DH is 6'4". As much as I like some of those beds he feels trapped in a bed with footboards.

I have a 6’4” dh also, so no footboard for me. I love the look of them, but imagine making the bed is more difficult.

I slightly prefer the faux bamboo style, but haven't found a simpler example like the discontinued one in the photo (straight lines, plain finials instead of pineapples, etc.).

Thanks for your points on the footboard! I'm still batting for both teams, but No Footboard is edging ahead.

The footboard gets in the way of viewing the TV.

I'm claustrophobic - no footboard. Our room is big enough that we have a blanket box at the foot of our bed. It doesn't get in the way of my needing not to feel hemmed in and somewhere to put the blankets in the summer when we throw them off.

I like the interest of the first one.

Bamboo bed, no footboard