Do you have any recommendations for where to buy or brand? My biggest fear with these is that the build quality can be all over the place and the last thing I want is to burn down the place!
I second totalZero. LOVED mine in the winter when I used to live up in the North East... nothing more comfy than to slip into a nice warm bed on a cold winter night (well, when I was single anyways lol). I've had a few different models from SunBeam, all with a timer built in to pre-heat and turn off. I found the build quality to be good, never had any issues.
Just a basic Casper mattress from Costco on a queen Ikea frame and it gets the job done pretty well. I have cats that shed a lot of claw up sheets so I tend to just not spend much on them.
We've been trialing the Purple, I love it but my S/O hates it ("it doesn't help if I go to be sore"). They have a 100 day guarantee, as most of the modern mattress manufacturers do, so there no harm in trialing.
I have many problems with my postures thoughout the whole day (bad habits and WFH), but I exercise semi-regularly.
I do stretching, running, or swimming- one or multiple of these all year.
I guess that is what saves me from back pains and other trouble despite bad postures.
Even when I didn't exercise (before age 14), I did not have any back pains despite sleeping on a very hard mattress.
Talk to your doctor and/or do a little exercise regularly. That should help. Don't start exercising with existing back pain without consulting an expert, though.
Casper bed, Casper pillow, cotton sheets. Watching the mattress inflate was extremely satisfying. I think it's pretty comfy. I live in a tiny loft so moving a conventional mattress into it would be very difficult.
Cal King bed, because of my height. Just a foam bed in a box on Amazon. My mattresses start getting depressions in them after a year or two anyways, so I try not to spend a fortune.
As for the frame, I like minimal. Just a steel platform that I can slide things under.
I have this problem too. I’m 2m tall and 118kg. I destroy most sitting or sleeping things eventually. It’s surprisingly reasonable to get custom made mattresses in the uk. Current one is 2.10m long. Perfect
LOL, about identical stats and understand completely. My furniture is all either wood, metal, or super cheap. No sense in dropping 2k on a fancy couch I'll just destroy in 6 months, I figure. Do you guys have size Cal king in the UK? Luckily they aren't too hard to get here in the US, though finding nice bed sheets can be an adventure.
Dude this is not a computer or electronics gear. There’s no “upgrade to” - the best thing to do is go to stores and try stuff to see what works for you. Because someone’s “upgrade” might be totally wrong for you. As an example, the memory foam pillows that everybody recommends don’t work for me, I had to test until I found one that worked and is harder/firmer than the usual recommendations.
IKEA frame, IKEA Matrand mattress (around $250 for a 200cm^2 size), IKEA pillows. The whole setup is like $500 and perfectly fine for us.
I dont really get the obsession in the US with those >$1000 mattresses. I think the whole thing is artificially inflated via marketing, where I live people dont make a big thing about matresses and and fine :)
I have the sense that for people increasingly unable to afford a house or an automobile, an expensive mattress is being presented as the next-more-affordable luxury.
To me, an old R&D principle applies: If you are going to spend so much on a piece of custom hardware that you will be afraid to admit it was a mistake or lacked essential features, better to experiment a little with something simpler first.
Queen-size bed with memory foam. Bed frame from Ikea.
3 blankets: one soft fleece blanket, one comforter, and one 25lb weighted blanket to keep me from kicking in my sleep. The weighted blanket has been the biggest QoS improvement for me personally.
2 comfy pillows, double-stacked.
Honorable Mentions:
My heat-pad I throw into the microwave that comes out smelling nice is fun to throw into the mix when it gets cold at night.
My super long phone-charging cable for when I want to flip sides and not worry about charge.
I started sleeping on the floor about six months ago. Carpet, thin duvet folded beneath me. I’ve looked at a dedicated shikibuton-type-setup, but the paradox of choice has stricken pretty hard.
It wasn’t from any sort of plan or goal, I just started doing so after some time spent crashing on my living room floor watching movies with my roommate.
I like that I get up quicker in the morning. And it’s been a more dedicated sleeping setup than a bed has ever been. Surprisingly, I’ve found that almost every time I’ve slept on a normal mattress (few different ones) since, I’ve had some back or neck pain the next day.
My back feels so much better when sleeping on the floor than it does on even the firmest of mattresses, and most mattresses are way, way too soft for me.
When our first kid fell out of our continental bed and smashed his mouth all bloody. We started sleeping on the floor. That was 4 years ago, and we have moved twice since. we are still sleeping on the floor.
We wan't to get bed, but a very low one. Mattress on the floor is nice, but it's actually good have have some kind of airflow below the mattress, I guess for ventilation.
I am thinking of getting a hospital-type bed with support for head elevation. GERD is getting the better of me these days and 2 pillows to prop me up is not doing it.
You could always put a few books under the feet at the head of the bed. Or even some sort of spacers to raise up the head of the box spring from the frame.
I also got a duvet from them so that the duvet cover would match the size of the duvet.
Also, they'll customize the sheets to your mattress if you send them measurements. I haven't found any other way to get a tight-fitting sheet, as it seems that king mattresses and sheets have a wide range of sizes, and the last thing you want is to splurge on amazing sheets that give you a bad night's sleep cause they don't fit properly.
Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with stretching and yoga and such but then I saw a commercial for one of those bowtie shaped foam pillows that go between your knees and figured "what the heck" and ordered one. It was weird at first but seemed to help a bit, then one night I came home late, tired, and couldn't find the thing so just jammed a regular pillow between my knees--the following morning was the first time I woke up without back pain in years. It's definitely hard on the pillows so now when I buy a new pillow for my head I demote the old one to knee service.
Can you share any details about that "regular pillow?" Ideally an online link that will ship internationally, but failing that: Materials, thickness, density, really anything that might be relevant would be helpful.
Nothing magical, it's just the same as I was already buying for my head: a mid-range (~$50USD), standard-size, down pillow. I mostly buy them from Bed, Bath & Beyond but the nearby store closed I've used a variety of brands from other department stores over the years.
If anyone else is as baffled as I was by why you would put a pillow between your knees: the idea is apparently to improve your alignment if you happen to sleep on your side.
(I do sleep on my side, but this idea has never occurred to me, and I tend to picture other people lying tidily on their backs - so I was picturing someone sleeping on their back with a pillow placed in an unaccountable position.)
I have done this my entire life. I think. When I met my partner, she found it strange and hilarious. Now, she is the one who always need a knee-pillow.
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Never had any back pains.
And my father's doctor agrees with your doctor, and I have had this kind of bed since my early childhood.
I have trouble sleeping in soft beds of hotels and other places.
I do stretching, running, or swimming- one or multiple of these all year.
I guess that is what saves me from back pains and other trouble despite bad postures.
Even when I didn't exercise (before age 14), I did not have any back pains despite sleeping on a very hard mattress.
Talk to your doctor and/or do a little exercise regularly. That should help. Don't start exercising with existing back pain without consulting an expert, though.
So, yeah, I'll do more training.
As for the frame, I like minimal. Just a steel platform that I can slide things under.
I dont really get the obsession in the US with those >$1000 mattresses. I think the whole thing is artificially inflated via marketing, where I live people dont make a big thing about matresses and and fine :)
Americans have extraordinary amounts of disposable income (among the top five in the world at the median) and a culture that likes consumer spending.
What doesn't make sense accordingly?
To me, an old R&D principle applies: If you are going to spend so much on a piece of custom hardware that you will be afraid to admit it was a mistake or lacked essential features, better to experiment a little with something simpler first.
3 blankets: one soft fleece blanket, one comforter, and one 25lb weighted blanket to keep me from kicking in my sleep. The weighted blanket has been the biggest QoS improvement for me personally.
2 comfy pillows, double-stacked.
Honorable Mentions:
My heat-pad I throw into the microwave that comes out smelling nice is fun to throw into the mix when it gets cold at night.
My super long phone-charging cable for when I want to flip sides and not worry about charge.
It wasn’t from any sort of plan or goal, I just started doing so after some time spent crashing on my living room floor watching movies with my roommate.
I like that I get up quicker in the morning. And it’s been a more dedicated sleeping setup than a bed has ever been. Surprisingly, I’ve found that almost every time I’ve slept on a normal mattress (few different ones) since, I’ve had some back or neck pain the next day.
My back feels so much better when sleeping on the floor than it does on even the firmest of mattresses, and most mattresses are way, way too soft for me.
We wan't to get bed, but a very low one. Mattress on the floor is nice, but it's actually good have have some kind of airflow below the mattress, I guess for ventilation.
We’ve slept on the floor for few months after childbirth, but then tried bed and were like “ah damn this is so much better”…
I tried to find out what model we have, but “I found it by searching silent bedframe on Amazon” is the closest answer you’ll get. :)
I can't recommend them to people who sleep in warm ambient temperatures, they generally trap heat.
Does anyone have pillow recommendations for people who sleep on your side?
I could probably stand to get another bottom layer.
I also got a duvet from them so that the duvet cover would match the size of the duvet.
Also, they'll customize the sheets to your mattress if you send them measurements. I haven't found any other way to get a tight-fitting sheet, as it seems that king mattresses and sheets have a wide range of sizes, and the last thing you want is to splurge on amazing sheets that give you a bad night's sleep cause they don't fit properly.
Can you share any details about that "regular pillow?" Ideally an online link that will ship internationally, but failing that: Materials, thickness, density, really anything that might be relevant would be helpful.
I picked up the practice originally after long hikes. It's amazing how much it helps with the soreness.
I just take a regular, commodity pillow and fold it in half. Any kind you can get at your local store works great!
(I do sleep on my side, but this idea has never occurred to me, and I tend to picture other people lying tidily on their backs - so I was picturing someone sleeping on their back with a pillow placed in an unaccountable position.)
Will be trying this tonight.
I also find lower leg straight and upper leg on the pillow (so you look like an 'h') works really well.