There are pluses and minuses. I have slept in '80s brass beds, 1880s brass beds, and a more modern wrought iron bed. Here are some things to think about. - Metal beds originally became popular as a precaution against bedbugs. Bedbugs hide in wood furniture, so if you get an infestation simply replacing the mattress won't suffice. For most of my life, bedbugs were a quaint old affliction remembered only in good-night sayings. However, they are now back in a big way. If you travel at all, your luggage can carry bedbugs from a hotel (even a very nice hotel) right back to your own bed. If so, you may have to treat or replace the mattress but at least your bed will be easy to sanitize. - You need to plan out where your head goes. Banging your skull on metal is unpleasant. That means you need good-sized pillows for sleeping and extra fluffage for reading. And yes, pillows do have a tendency to slip behind the bed. - I found it pleasant to touch the cool metal with my hands when I was warm in bed. It sounds like nothing, but it actually made a difference in comfort . - By all means get a well-made bed if you go metal. Cheap metal beds flex and move and bend even more than cheap wooden ones. A poorly made bed will make you feel like you are sleeping in a lifeboat on open seas.

Do you live by a Penney's outlet by any chance? They sell the bedskirts from their bedding sets for $1.99. I'm starting to have a very nice sized "just in case" stash! If you don't live near an outlet (they're soont o be doscontinued anyway, MAJOR bummer for me since I go there at least 1x a week), check the clearance/outlet section of their website. I don't know if they sell the unpaired bedding separates, but that's where it would be if they do. It's the only place I've seen nice, BBB alternative bedskirts for sale on their own, for a good price. Even the BBB ones go for like $50 or more.

I hope you have set houzz to send emails or texts when you get replies. I suspect that you posted to another "Topic" or Forum other than the Appliance forum where we actually are. In that case you would never see these replies. edit, but I see gardengal has already checked and you only have this one post.

"Stax ... I did search but didn't find any boards with 7' length. Mostly, they come in 4' and 6' lengths. But, thanks - so appreciate your input." The one I cited was 97" long - i.e EIGHT FEET PLUS I removed it just now.