<p>I like the deep warmth of the Tempurpedic (my husband likes to sleep with the window open, year round), but my husband used to find it too warm… We added the “mattress protector” ([Tempur-Pedic®</a> - Other Products - Accessories - Advanced Performance Mattress Protector](<a href=“http://www.tempurpedic.com/other_products/accessories/advanced_performance_mattress_protector/]Tempur-Pedic®”>http://www.tempurpedic.com/other_products/accessories/advanced_performance_mattress_protector/)) that T-P sells and then a thin wool pad and now we’re all of us happy, including the dogs.</p>
<p>Thank you to all of you for your opinions and insight. </p>
<p>When the heck did buying a mattress get so complicated?!</p>
<p>Oh, I loathe mattress shopping second only to car shopping!</p>
<p>We have a memory foam mattress which my husband hates. He travels a lot for work so he sleeps on different mattresses all the time, and is not happy to come home to our mattress. I’m sure he’d replace it in a heartbeat if he could.</p>
<p>I actually do like the mattress and my kids love it because it feels so cozy when you sink into it. It does hold the heat in–which is great now when it’s 15 degrees outside but in the summer, not so much. That would be my only complaint. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I just wrote a long post and it got lost. Sigh 
We just decided to dive in and buy one untested from Bedinabox.com. Our current pillowtop mattress over coils was great for the first year, but now we crawl out of bed in the morning groaning. We previously had an industrial grade slab of foam, that we actually bought second-hand along with the platform bed. It was great for years but then started to shred. I’ll let you know how we like the new mattress. It comes in a vacuum-pack bag, is made in USA of less toxic-stuff, and was only $705. delivered for a King 11" with goosedown topper. Website claims it can sell for so much less because they are an internet business and don’t advertise much. Eopinions were excellent, but I don’t know about mattress longevity or whether they paid someone to write the opinions - but the website talks a good talk and we decided to jump in because bulk garbage pickup is on December 15th and we want the old mattress GONE!!! I’ll let you know if it’s good after it arrives… :)</p>
<p>Arrived a day early in a box offloaded in front of the garage - small but HEAVY. My hubby and I dragged it upstairs (110 lbs!), opened the box and stuck it on the bed platform, then used scissors to cut the plastic. It inhaled and poofed up in less than a minute and it didn’t stink at all. (Unlike the thin memory-foam topper I bought at Costco for the guest bed; that took about 6 months to stop stinking and it still has a slight odor.) Put the goose down cover on it and fresh sheets - and I already know I am going to LOVE it. Feels great, doesn’t stink. Sigh! :)</p>
<p>The body heat and mattress heat are becoming a slight issue, but I don’t think a new mattress will help:(</p>
<p>I bought it for H who has had back surgery, he really likes it.</p>
<p>please send the update after you have had a few nights on it…very interested!!</p>
<p>okey-dokey. It was VERY comfortable last night and does feel like a quality product. Firm, but giving. I couldn’t get over the “no smell” thing. Just a note -after I ordered I found that Bedinabox has a deal where once you buy something from them, they give you a customer number. If you refer someone and they use your number and order over the PHONE, that person gets 5% off, and you get “reward points” that you can use to order more stuff from them. I’m not interested in getting reward points (how many beds can I use!), but if you bought from them you might want to get 5% off. Some folks have posted youtube links (showing them unwrapping their mattresses and poofing up, etc - some are funny) and they list their account numbers that you can use to get a discount if you want. I’m not giving out my number. (It would feel too weird and like those awful “network marketers”. I hate it when friends try to sell you stuff!)
I guess that’s bedinabox’s answer to cheap advertising. 
Anyhow - hope that helps. The goosedown mattress topper is quality, too - seams are french seamed (so cover is reversible - no unfinished seams.)</p>
<p>This helps a lot! I was soooooooo close to ordering a new mattress but I just could not do it. It’s so much darn money! $705 ain’t cheap but at least it’s under a grand and I do like that it’s made in the US. </p>
<p>I’ve put this off for so long that we actually have a guest coming and we are still camped out in the guest room! Luckily she has a very good back and claims she can sleep on anything so long as there is a pillow and blanket involved. If she can’t sleep on it, we’ll blow up a camping mattress and put her in son’s room while he sleeps on the blow up bed in our room. </p>
<p>This is truly ridiculous. </p>
<p>4giggles, Do you have something inbetween your sheets and the mattress? Maybe a wool topper or something like that?</p>
<p>Compared to what a good king size mattress costs, $705 is cheap!</p>
<p>anxiousmom, I was curious and checked the company’s website. Cool, they speak my language - polymer chemistry, the stuff is american-made, and their return policy is darn hard to beat. What a no nonsense company! I wish I were in a market for a memory foam mattress, but I already have one.</p>
<p>This looks like the BASF stuff they are talking about:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www2.basf.us/urethanechemicals/Specialty_Systems/pdfs/PLuracel-Advantage.pdf[/url]”>http://www2.basf.us/urethanechemicals/Specialty_Systems/pdfs/PLuracel-Advantage.pdf</a></p>
<p>Ok, I am always flummoxed by the issue of the platform and the absence of box springs. My son spent a long time living in Berlin and says everyone’s beds are closer to the floor. My husband needs all the help he can get with a sleep disorder to get restorative REM sleep, so this is “on my list.” I was going to have a fabric headboard made for him, perhaps Queen or King sized and I just don’t know what the deal is on attaching a headboard I special ordered locally to a platform for this mattress. Do you have something else under your new mattress to give height similar to Box Springs? t or does your platform bed bring it up to a decent not too weird height? </p>
<p>burning questions…ha. By the way, we are furnishing in modern/midcentury furnishings so I am picky about not having my bed look like it was made this year. I think I can fix this issue by making up my own headboard. Like the ones you see on that show…what is it? Madman or something…the one about the ad agency guy on TV now that is all 1962 sets but how can I get this platform thing to work out?</p>
<p>I think hotels just attach a headboard to the wall and butt the bed itself up to that. We just have a platform bed that some guy made himself out of 3/4"plywood. It’s a rectangular base and then has two sheets of ply that are laid on top and screwed onto the base. The original foam mattress sat on that, then our pillowtop coils-from-hell mattress sat on that, and now our new 11" memoryfoam mattress sits on it. I’ve never used a boxsprings in my life. Our bed is mid-thigh height on me and I’m a regular height, so it’s good. We don’t have a headboard, minimalists that we are - but we do have two of those bed cushions with arms at the head of the bed to lean against. :)</p>
<p>We have a platform bed from Dania Furniture ([Dania</a> Furniture](<a href=“http://www.daniafurniture.com/]Dania”>http://www.daniafurniture.com/)) and never used a boxspring with it even when we had an innerspring mattress (our motivation was not to pay outrageous $$$ for a wooden frame encased in fabric). The bed is perfect hight for me and H, and it is easy to get in and out. With another 10-12 inches of boxspring I would probably need a stepping stool to get into that bed! IKEA would be another good place to look for an inexpensive platform bed (that’s what Ds have).</p>
<p>bless you guys for the details.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m about to order the same mattress that anxiousmom has…wish me luck!</p>
<p>Did you get the 11" with goose down? We are not big people, but ordered the thicker one just so that the nightstands wouldn’t be too high. (They are actually printer stands, and were fine for our super-thick coil mattress.) Our mattress actually came the day before the tracking number link said it would, but with xmas it might take a day longer. I hope you found a # on utube and saved the 5%.<br>
Just an update - I am sleeping so much better, and I no longer get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. I probably used to get up so often because the bed was uncomfortable and woke me up, and since I was up, hey - I might as well use the restroom. I also woke up this morning and found myself lying on my stomach (which is not so good for my neck, but hey) which I never could do comfortably on my old bed.<br>
Let me know what you think, Pugmadkate!!!</p>
<p>Bumping this up for an update from anxiousmom and pugmadkate on their BedInABox mattresses. They’re running a Columbus Day sale till midnight tonight! Also, have to avoid goose down due to allergies so do you know anything about the new bamboo cover model?</p>
<p>I just noticed this post. Still really like my bed!!! The goose down says it’s hypoallergenic… I usually avoid feather pillows andhaven’t had any issues with the feathers, but I’m not highly allergic. The bamboo cover is not washable, if I remember… I could be wrong. We had an older mattress cover that we ended up putting over the goose feather one… Yep, still love my bed!!! :)</p>
<p>I bought a different “Internet” mattress a couple of weeks ago: all natural latex from [Latex</a> Mattresses and Air Bed Specialists](<a href=“Loading...”>http://www.habitatfutons.com/)
Not inexpensive, but with a 6-month return policy I decided to risk it. I took about 4 nights to get used to the different feel and decide that this was a great idea (for us)</p>
<p>I absolutely hate my Tempurpedic! It was heaven for the first few months, but after several years there are ruts on each side. If you sit on the edge, you sink about 5 inches. Every time one of us rolls over, the other one wakes up, and we are both stiff and achy when we get up. Of course, some of that might be because we’re getting old… :(</p>