Bed & Mattress Size Guide: Choosing the Right Bed for Your Sydney Bedroom
Choosing a new bed involves more decisions than it first seems — not just the size, but the mattress type, the bed frame style, and how it will actually fit in your room alongside the rest of your bedroom furniture. This guide covers the practical basics: standard Australian bed sizes, how to pick the right one for your room and household, the main mattress types, and the storage pieces that finish a bedroom off properly.
Australian Standard Bed Sizes
Bed sizes in Australia follow a standard set of dimensions, so it's worth knowing them before you start measuring your room:
- Single: 92 x 188cm
- King Single: 107 x 203cm
- Double: 138 x 188cm
- Queen: 153 x 203cm
- King: 183 x 203cm
(Full details and international comparisons are available on Wikipedia's bed size reference.)
How to Choose the Right Size for Your Room and Household
A few practical guidelines beyond the raw dimensions:
- Small bedrooms or single occupants: A King Single or Double gives more floor space for storage furniture, and suits a guest room or a older child's room well.
- Couples: A Queen is the most common choice for Australian main bedrooms — it fits most standard room sizes while giving each person reasonable space.
- Larger main bedrooms: A King bed needs a room at least 3.4m wide to comfortably fit the bed plus bedside tables and walking space on both sides.
- Rule of thumb: Leave at least 60-70cm of clearance on each side of the bed and at the foot of the bed for walking space and drawers to open freely.
See sizing side by side in our bedroom furniture range, including king bed suites.
Choosing a Mattress: The Main Types
Mattress choice is just as important as the bed frame. The main construction types available are:
- Innerspring / Bonnell spring: A traditional coil-based construction, generally the most affordable option and a solid all-rounder for most sleepers.
- Pocket spring: Individually wrapped coils that move independently, which reduces motion transfer between two sleepers and often gives better contouring than a basic innerspring.
- Foam and hybrid: Combines memory or high-density foam layers with a spring base (or uses all-foam construction) for a different feel and pressure distribution.
Firmness preference is personal, and comes down to sleeping position and body weight as much as mattress type — a background primer on construction types is available on Wikipedia's mattress overview. Browse our mattress range, including pocket spring and Bonnell spring options.
Bedroom Storage: Bedside Tables, Tallboys and Dressing Tables
A bed is only part of a functional bedroom. When planning the room, factor in:
- Bedside tables on each side of the bed for lamps, chargers, and everyday items.
- A tallboy for folded clothing storage, particularly useful in bedrooms without built-in wardrobes. Our tallboy range comes in matching finishes to most bedroom suites.
- A dressing table if the room has space, for a dedicated getting-ready spot rather than using shared bathroom space. See our dressing table options.
Buying a bed as part of a matching bedroom suite is usually more cost-effective than sourcing each piece separately, and guarantees a consistent finish across the room.
Finding the Right Bed in Sydney
A mattress in particular is worth testing in person rather than buying on look alone — firmness, edge support, and motion transfer all feel different depending on your body weight and sleeping position. Our showroom team can walk you through the bed sizes and mattress types available and how they'd suit your room.
Browse the full range online, or get in touch to ask about current stock, sizing, or delivery across Sydney.
