Beds with storage get sold as the answer to everything, and mostly they are, but I landed somewhere short of the hype after living with one for three years in a house with no attic, no basement, and one closet per bedroom that was already full. They are not glamorous. Nobody walks into a bedroom and sighs over the bed frame because it has drawers. But I stopped folding sweaters into bins under a bed skirt and started actually finding things again, and that counts for more than good looks in a room you mostly use unconscious.
If you have never owned one, start with the drawer base over the ottoman lift style, the kind where two or four drawers sit on either side at the foot and sides of the frame. It is less dramatic than the hydraulic platforms that lift the whole mattress on a hinge, but you are not wrestling a mattress every time you need a spare blanket, and drawers on runners do not eventually sag the way some of the lift mechanisms do once a few years and a couple of moves have gone by. Save the lift style for a guest room or a smaller space where you are storing things you touch twice a year, off season bedding, the inflatable mattress, suitcases, because getting at it is a production and you do not want a production for your daily socks. This kind of bed earns its keep most in small apartments, in kids rooms where toys multiply like they are reproducing on their own, and in any house where the closets were clearly designed by someone who hated clothes. It is less necessary in a bedroom that already has a proper closet and a dresser with room to spare, where the drawers just end up holding things you forgot you owned.
In an ordinary room it sits easily with a plain dresser and a soft rug, because the bed itself is already doing visual work with its solid base, and it does not need a headboard shouting over it. Upholstered fabric or a simple wood frame both wear well here. What it clashes with is a room already busy with pattern and a lot of furniture with their own storage underneath, nightstands with drawers, a blanket chest at the foot, because then you are just stacking storage nobody can access without moving three other things first. It also does not suit anyone who changes their mattress often, since getting a mattress on and off a lift base twice in five years gets old fast.
Vacuum the drawer tracks every few months, dust builds up there faster than you would expect and it is what eventually makes a smooth drawer start sticking.
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