Pioneered in Japan, these zen platform beds are the perfect addition to a home with an eye on minimalism. Take out the box spring and the frame, and replace it with a traditional zen platform, and your bed will have an alignment with the earth that may just improve the Feng Shui of your bedroom, which has been found to lead to better sleep, and mental clarity.
13 Recommendations and 173 Ideas
Sleek and modern sunken bed frame
AllModern
Perfect For: Mid-century modern decor
What We Like: All natural wood grains
This solid wood sunken bed frame is the perfect addition to any modern bedroom. It comes in three sleek colors, and has a mid-century modern style. With a weight capacity of 600 lbs and dimensions of 59" wide and 12" off the floor, it's durable and sturdy enough for any bedroom.
Designer Advice:
Adding a sunken bed frame to a bedroom can create a relaxing and calming atmosphere. The height is lower than the regular bed providing the illusion of a larger space. The minimalist design of the bed also helps keep the bedroom looking clean and uncluttered. With the right decorations and accessories, this bed can give your bedroom a unique touch.
What Users Say:
Love! It’s the bed of my dreams. Simple design, incredible sturdy, was easy to assemble.
Sleek and rustic Japanese floor bed frame
Union Rustic
Perfect For: Adding sleek rustic charm
What We Like: Vibrant Acacia wood grains
This Japanese-inspired floor bed frame is made from solid Acacia wood and features updated styling. With a 700 lb weight capacity and 6" floor clearance, it can accommodate most users comfortably. Its clean and rustic style is 81" long and 59" wide, making it the perfect addition to any bedroom. The solid Acacia wood frame and mattress slats ensure durability and strength for years of use.
$266.99
$309.99
Designer Advice:
Adding this floor bed frame to your bedroom can create a calming, cozy atmosphere. The low profile allows the eye to travel to other elements in the room creating a harmonious space. With its minimalist design, the floor bed frame is perfect for achieving a relaxing, zen-like atmosphere in any bedroom.
What Users Say:
Super easy to assemble and looks great! Perfect for if you need a low headboard under a window.
Minimalist style Japanese bed frame, queen size
Zinus
Perfect For: Minimalist or industrial decor
What We Like: Extremely durable frame
This black steel Japanese style bed frame is perfect for any bedroom. It's heavy duty, squeak resistant and quiet, offering a 700 lb weight capacity. The frame is 6" high, 80" long and 60" wide, making it an ideal size for rooms with slanted ceilings. Its clean and contemporary design adds a modern touch to any decor to provide a comfortable and quiet night’s rest.
$94.87
$131.14
Designer Advice:
This Japanese bed frame can add a unique yet modern feel to any bedroom. It offers a lower center of gravity, creating a sense of security and comfort. The bed frame can also save space and allow for more furniture or storage. With the right accent pieces, it can create a stylish space for relaxation and a good night's sleep.
What Users Say:
I’ve had this frame for years and it is still in the best shape. Def recommend!
Upholstered Japanese Platform Bed Frame
Modway Inc.
Instantly transform your bedroom landscape by fusing Western and Japanese style with a platform bed with an upholstered headboard. Unlike Western-style beds, Japanese bed frames are low to the floor, for an inconspicuous look. Upholstered headboards make the bed a more prominent feature and add soft textures to contrast the hard, chiseled wooden frame.
If you’re looking to fill a large bedroom, consider choosing a platform with attached matching nightstands. The added width grounds the room and creates a sense of coziness. Plus, it saves you the job of looking for matching low-level nightstands!
Japanese Style Sunken Platform Bed
Limari Home
Restore your energy to its fullest potential each night with a Japanese-style sunken platform bed. In Japanese culture it is believed that the closer to the floor you sleep, the more rejuvenated you will awake, because it allows the earth to absorb your excess energy. If you’re not ready to sleep on the floor, sunken platform beds allow you to get as close to it as possible.
Introduce symmetry with built-in nightstands on either side of the bed, to create a sense of balance and visual harmony.
Modern Grey Upholstered Japanese Bed Frame with Built In Nightstands
Limari Home
Looking for a Japanese Zen bed frame to suit a modern, gray bedroom decor? Try an upholstered sunken platform bed in a muted gray color palette. Whilst textiles are kept to a minimum in traditional Japanese interior design, upholstered bed frames are increasingly popular in modern interiors. This is because of their inherent softness and array of colors and textures, for added personalization.
Japanese minimalism prefers natural floor materials, such as wood and stone. However, to create a cozy atmosphere in the bedroom, you can use textile floor coverings or rugs in natural materials such as straw, jute, sisal, or wool.
Natural Wood Zen Platform Bed with Headboard
Incorporate Japanese philosophy into your bedroom decor with a platform bed made of solid wood. Natural materials are often used in Japanese interior design to maintain the dialogue and harmony between people and their natural environment and add a sense of warmth and relaxation.
Solid wood bed frames come in a range of natural wood grains and stains, suitable for a variety of interior decors from Scandinavian to rustic, or farmhouse. When choosing a wooden frame, make sure it integrates into the design and complements the other tones of the room.
Modern Black Glossy Japanese Platform Bed
Matisse Co.
Place a modern twist on traditional Japanese design with a black, glossy floor-level bed frame.
Sleek, clean lines and a minimalist aesthetic characterize both traditional Japanese and modern Western design. A black bed frame becomes a focal point, creating high contrast and a sense of dynamism.
The color black can feel overpowering, especially in small bedrooms. Maintain a sense of calmness and harmony by pairing it with white tones and accents of a primary color, such as red.
Japanese Floating Platform Bed
Nexera
Bring a light and airy feel to your bedroom with a Japanese floating platform bed. The unique design creates the impression that the bed is levitating above the ground, for a clean and uncluttered appearance.
Walnut laminate creates a soft and natural-looking finish, suitable for a range of interior styles from bohemian to Scandinavian, or mid-century modern. If you have a big bedroom, consider opting for an extra-wide headboard. Not only will this create a solid focal point and design statement, but it will also add a feeling of coziness.
Japanese Storage Platform Bed
Memomad
Looking to create a tranquil escape from the hectic cityscape? Those of you who live in a busy metropolitan area know that every square foot counts. So, why not pair functionality and style with a Japanese storage bed? The clever design optimizes your bedroom space, providing plenty of closed or trendy open storage space for your personal belongings, clothes, or bed linen.
Out of sight, out of mind; the secret to a Zen space is to remove visual distractions and potential anxiety triggers. Stick to a modest, minimalist bedroom design with practical storage, avoiding complicated detail and excess ornamentation, and you will quickly achieve the peaceful oasis you are seeking.
White Leather Platform Bed with Adjustable Headrests
Zuri
Instill modern sophistication and serenity into your restful retreat with a white platform bed frame. Clean lines and a sleek silhouette, laid in close proximity to the ground, create a sense of spaciousness and order. A color symbolic of spiritual and physical purity in Japanese culture, a white bed frame makes the perfect centerpiece for your sleep sanctuary.
For an authentic Japanese style bed, opt for a platform without a headboard or footboard. You can also find platform beds with adjustable headrests if you want something to occasionally lean on.
Modern Industrial Japanese Style Bed Frame
Zinus
Infuse your modern industrial style bedroom with Zen aura with a low-lying Asian platform bed. Solid wood floor-level bed frames offer sturdy support for you and your mattress and guaranteed durability. And, eliminating clearance space keeps those dust-bunnies at bay, creating a healthier sleeping environment.
Anchor the industrial decor with a slatted headboard in natural wood grain with brass accents, providing an alternative modern take on traditional Japanese design.
Beautiful and simple wooden platform bed. It reminds of a treehouse bed in the middle of a jungle and it is really peaceful and zen style. It is also very comfortable and will look great in the modern bedroom.
A simple but large and sturdy platform bed. It's hand-crafted of quite thick wooden planks with tongue and groove joints and fixed to low full length supports. Planks are finished in browns. A bed accommodates most large mattresses.
Arianna Storage Platform Bed
This striking design will serve as the centerpiece of any bedroom, with its dark, solid wood construction and distressed finish. You can use this bed frame to bring a touch of elegance to a rustic or shabby chic-style bedroom. The robust, pine frame holds up to 500 lbs. of weight and can accommodate mattresses up to 8” thick.
Simplistic, pure form and closeness to nature. This zen platform bed comes from a house in the west coast of France. It enchants with its rough but at the same time designer appeal, ideal i.e. for lofts.
Add a touch of Asian style to your bedroom with the Zen platform bed and headboard. It is low, has the bamboo mat bed runner and creates the inviting, clean, and restful interior.
A low-profile platform bed for your undisturbed sleep, which also brings rustic accents to your master bedroom. Hardwood construction makes it very sturdy, featuring a simple headboard and footboard, and wide legs for stability.
Practical platform bed without unnecessary decorations. This minimal design looks very nice in any decor and provides comfortable sleeping space for two people. Black sleeping surface and solid wooden base provide comfort, safety and ergonomy.
This wooden platform enchants with its cool and clean, minimalistic design, constituting a marvellous proposition for contemporary bedrooms. It corresponds well to the grays and whites.
Love any bed that my cat can't hide under when I'm trying to give her a pill.
This extraordinary storage bed is excellently made of beautiful wood. All in a stylish modern design, it has an impressive headboard and large drawers on the base, which makes it very functional.
With this zen platform bed you will finally have plenty of comfort during your sleep and will ensure hours of relaxation, while the sublime and simple frame brings an oriental touch to your master bedroom.
Love the bed and floating end tables and the closet doors
I wouldn't hesitate to suggest that someone buy this zen platform bed. The low height is an fantastic option to any bedroom. Add a comfort and Oriental style into your home.
Zen platform bed.
Modern
This zen platform bed embodies all that's best in Japanese design. Simplicity and exquisite focus on comfort and pro-healthy measures. Made from solid, densely grained wood, it will fit into modern lofts or apartments.
Platform bed with high headboard. Construction is made of wood. Modern accent for any bedroom according to taste.
DIY Inspiration! - idea for possible platform bed construction, great attached side tables :-: Slatted Tatami Platform Bed - sold on
Furnish your master bedroom with this stunning and elegant bed, which is inspired of the Asian style. The solid construction and walnut finish creates the inviting place to sleep.
Headboard Storage - For a sleek and modern look, look for a hybrid unit that combines a headboard with bedside storage. The ledge of the headboard is perfect for displaying lamps to read by, and the cubbies are fitting for books
Modern Zen Bed by Ign. Design
luxury bedrooms designs | Luxury Bed with Modern Bedroom Decoration | Modern Furniture Design in ...
Alsa Queen Platform Bed
A platform bed that is a connection of functionality and attractiveness. It is suitable in different types of decor and stylizations of bedrooms. Its size (66 inches wide x 84 inches long x 28 inches high) provides a good rest to 2 people.
36 Relaxing And Harmonious Zen Bedrooms