Abstract: An adjustable bed or like furniture has a frame, a box spring with articulated base sections for different parts of the body, a box spring having a plurality of coil springs attached to each of the base sections, with framelike means to enable the box spring sections to hinge, a matress having like sections, frame and coil springs, a single motor pivotally connected to the frame producing movement fore and aft of the bed, drive means including levers and a cable connected through the levers to elevate the head section to slant it upward toward the head end of the frame and to elevate the upper leg section to slant it upward towards the foot end of the frame, the arrangements of the springs and frames causing the box spring and mattress to follow these elevations of the sections.