You can indeed. This is the best kind of bed frame for letting your mattress breathe. We recommend that the gaps are evenly spaced and don’t exceed 7.5 cm. Any gaps wider than this won’t support your mattress in all the right ways and this will void your warranty. If you’re choosing between wooden slats and box springs, wooden slats will give you a nice medium firm feel which will compliment the feel of your eve mattress. Whereas box springs might create a softer feel.