(Down 3 lbs this week. yay, WW!)
Okay, topic at hand: Mattresses.
Ingrid’s nudging ever closer to Big Girl Bed, and I want to put the full size bed from the guest room into her room, put our bed into the guest room (queen size) and get us a new queen size bed. (Well, I’d love a king, but I just don’t think we can swing it in the weird stairway, and in our room.) I went and laid down on several mattresses at the Serta dealer yesterday, and… eh. They are all beds, you know? I like a firm bed, most likely not a pillowtop (and a eurotop seems to be just a different shaped pillowtop) and I don’t need a boxspring, I don’t think, because our platform makes our old bed so high, and new mattresses are even bigger.
My biggest concern is that it will sag or be weird too quickly, which is something you can’t gauge in the store. And since I’ve never laid down cash for a bed — always made do with hand-me-downs — there’s a big part of me that’s like "eh, fuck it, get one that isn’t too expensive or too tall, and call it a day."
On that note, anyone have any recommendations, or anti-recommendations? I’m all ears.
I like a pillow top, but I like a softer bed. One thing that I have mixed feelings about is the mattress that has the support around the side (so that when you sit on the side of it it doesn’t start to sag after a while). While it was nice not to have a saggy mattress, it sorta created a mini wall. So while it wasn’t sagging you could feel the whatever it was support.
I don’t know what kind we have right now, Serta maybe, but we really like it.
i am a HUGE fan of the new rubber mattresses…and they have them so they are as firm or as soft as you like. and there are non-spendy versions as well.
however, i am also a HUGE believer in getting a bed that is as nice as you can possibly afford. after all, you use it every single night, the quality of your sleep affects your every single day and the better the quality, the longer you will have it. i look at it the same way i look at buying a car.
about the box spring, because you have a platform bed, you probably don’t need it. a box spring is meant for beds that sit upon the metal frame when you order, make sure you aren’t receiving a box spring and frame by default…they sometimes do that and then just throw away the box spring. such a waste. also, if you end up needing a box spring, get the split box spring which is easier to get up and down staircases.
Probably unhelpful, but my family gets all our mattresses from the Original Mattress Factory: http://www.originalmattress.com/
When I moved into my 1st apartment (7 years ago) I bought their cheapest full set for $200, and now I have their priciest king set ($1000 4 years ago) and both are great. My king is a DREAM to sleep on. Pure delight. Even the cheap one, our guest bed now, is still comfortable. (Or so my guests say… maybe they’re just polite?)
So, you probably don’t want to order an untested mattress and pay exorbitant shipping to Maine, but thought I’d throw it out there if you did! Either way, their website has some pretty good tips on how to choose a quality mattress.
We bought a mid-line Simmons last July and it promptly caved in on my side.
So, I’d scratch them off the list. And believe me, I’m pissed that we’re going to have to shell out for a new bed sometime in the next year.
I liked my Sealy for the first five years. The last four were a bit uncomfortable.