The adjustable bed mattress has come to mean a lot of things in recent years as this category has exploded in popularity lately. This popularity has come largely from the new sleep number beds that are produced by Select Comfort. And for good reason, these mattresses have totally revolutionized the technology that makes up this [...]
It seems like everyone, at one point or another in their lives, has owned a futon bed. Oddly enough, not that many people are aware that futon is a Japanese term, and refers to an item very similar to the one we know in western cultures. In Japan, a futon is a mattress and quilt [...]
Shopping for a guest bed requires some research and some foresight, maybe more so than for the bed that you sleep in each night. That is because, and this may come as a surprise, people tend to have guest beds for twice as long as they do the beds they sleep in each night. It’s [...]
Now, this review is only about fifteen years great, but it’s never too late to talk about a good shopping experience. Especially in the arena of mattress shopping, which is sort of notorious for the opposite. When I lived in the bay area in the 90s, I was just out of college, and shopping to [...]
I think we all have a pretty good picture in our minds when we hear mention of inflatable mattresses. Depending on how old we are typically has a great influence on what picture we see. It used to be that a decent inflatable mattress took up just about as much room as a standard mattress… [...]
We’ve talked a little bit about memory foam in our discussion on visco elastic. As we discussed there, memory foam is basically just polyurethane with a couple of additives to boost it’s density and viscosity. The result is a foam that is firm, but gives when weight is applied. If you have sat on an [...]
A lot has been written about Mattress Warehouse, and how they do business. For better or worse, they have been the selling party in thousands upon thousands of new bed and mattress sales across the US for a number of years now. A simple search online for “mattress factory” will yield many results. And many [...]
If you’ve found your way here, it’s because you have the same question that many ask as they shop for a new mattress. First of all, how can a dumb mattress cost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars? It’s a little bit offensive how much some companies ask for these products. But, more importantly, do [...]
In case you’re wondering, a visco elastic foam mattress is basically just a memory foam mattresses with a fancier name. Where does this strange name come from? Well, it’s not all that complicated, and it might just come up in a conversation someday that allows you to impress your friends. Basically, memory foam is just [...]