Few home furniture purchases are as significant or as exciting as buying the perfect bed for your endless and ultimate relaxation and downtime.  Yet there also happen to be few items of home furniture quite as perplexing and befuddling as the bed: what sizes do beds come in, and just what is each size adequate for?  Furthermore, are bed sizes measured in some sort of universal system, or do bed sizes vary from country to country and continent to continent?  Getting your noggin around these issues will help you guarantee that, when it comes time to make a bed purchase for yourself or somebody close to you, you don’t make any regrettable mistakes but rather ensure many years of quality rest.

In response to the second question above, the answer is YES: bed sizes do vary from country to country and continent to continent, though there is generally a nomenclature that is loosely employed to denote certain size ranges.  The basic varieties of bed would be, in decreasing order: the King sized bed, the Queen sized bed, the double and finally the single bed.  In Australia, these denominations have dimensions that are different from those used, for example, in the United Kingdom.

So, let’s take a look at just what the dimensions are for beds in Australia.  For starters, the King sized bed is a more-than-generous goliath of a bed intended for very spacious rooms and people with a serious taste for leisure, coming in at a whopping 6 feet across by 6 feet 8 inches long.  That’s enough space to fit practically an entire family for a cozy night’s sleep!

Next up is the Aussie Queen sized bed: not to disappoint, this variety honors the royal origins of its name, measuring a considerable 5 feet across by 6 feet 8 inches long.  That means that the only difference with the Kind sized bed is a foot of width—maybe Kings have historically been a little plumper than Queens…who knows?!

Subsequently there is the double bed, which measures 4 feet 6 inches across by 6 feet 2 inches long.  Finally, there is the single bed, measuring 3 feet across by 6 feet 2 inches long.  All in all, Australian dimensions attest to the fact that Down Under, everything is just a big bigger.