Can you use a full mattress on a queen bed?
I was given what I thought to be a queen mattress by a family member, and went today to buy a bed. The bed is beautiful upholstered headboard/foot-board, but it’s queen, and now I realized my mattress is a full. I know that if the bed is a platform queen and fulls are interchangeable, but if it isn’t a platform would it look horrible to buy a queen box-spring with a full mattress on top?
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A full mattress is both narrower AND shorter than a queen — 6" narrower and 5" shorter — making the surface area of a queen almost 20% bigger than the surface area of a full. This means you’ll have quite a bit of extra space around the edges of your box spring. And since the mattress has both a headboard and foot-board, the length issue might even be a more glaring issue than the width issue, which as someone suggested, could perhaps be concealed with a really big fluffy comforter.
Overall, I would say that if aesthetics are a concern for you, you probably won’t be happy with the full mattress on the queen bed. This is to say nothing of the risk of bumping your shin or foot on the hard edge of the box spring — which are not meant to be exposed edges, and thus are not at all soft like the edge of a mattress. And, it sounds like you’d still have to buy a queen box spring anyway, so if you’re not happy with the outcome, you’ll be even further in the hole than you are now.
I think You should Try It
yes. you can but it might look to big and make your bedroom look to small. try it though before you make up your mind.
The difference is about 6 inches. Putting a full mattess on a queen box spring will look silly, because you’ll have a ledge all the way around. Plus, the structure on the box spring and the mattress are around the edges… if you put a smaller mattress on top, it won’t get the support it needs, and the box spring will collapse – perhaps damaging the mattress, the bed, and you!
There won’t be any safety issues, just aesthetic ones…but once a comforter is over it, it won’t be too noticeable since there will only be a mere 3" on ether side. If possible, the headboard & footboard could be redrilled to accomodate both the full mattress & boxspring. (The bed won’t be too big for the room either)