We've never had a beautiful bed frame just the boxsprings and mattress on the short metal frame. We have a lot of windows in our bedroom and I like the simplicity and having more attention drawn to the windows than the bed.
My husband keeps a high-end air mattress in his music room. There are times that that air mattress on the floor is the only thing that saves his back. We use to have a very high-end super thick and heavy futon mattress and I wish we'd never gotten rid of it. It was much better for his back than this traditional mattress/boxspring.