Hey there.
My wife and I are on the hunt for a new mattress, and I decided to at least entertain the idea of doing DIY. This post is about fact finding, recommendations, but also making informed decisions if DIY is the way to go, or stick with buying a whole mattress.
Some constraints include selecting for natural materials (e.g. Latex) and a lean toward a more firm build, which was a request from my wife. She’s 5’5", 105 lbs, while i’m 5’6", 145. Pretty light relatively speaking. I’m a back sleeper almost exclusively. She’s 50/50 side/back sleeper.
For context, we’ve been sleeping on this Sleepy’s brand (Doze) 10" medium memory foam mattress, for the last 4 years, and in terms of quality, I suspect we can only go up from here. She’s been on hard mattresses all her life, so it’s what she’s used to. For myself, I’ve noticed that with our current mattress, it sinks at the hips and doesn’t give the back support I’d like. Overall, we’re not that picky.
In terms of feel, we were recently at an ikea looking for other furniture, and felt that the ÅNNELAND felt pretty good, and I was thinking of possibly reproducing a build based off it, but with natural materials. That said, I understand Latex foam isn’t the same as polyurethane, so perhaps reproducing that feel would be a fools errand. It definitely felt firmer, but had just enough softness and give. I’d say it was an 8, on a scale, on 1 - 10. Granted, it was in a showroom, so it’s possible that it was broken in for all the time’s it was tested. Something to consider.
In any case, if I were to consider getting materials from Arizona Premium Mattress, I think all I need is one of their coil solutions, the 3" dunlop latex (ILD 34-38), and the mattress cover, and I’m good to go, making for a 9" to 11" mattress. However, feel free to propose alternatives, such was which coil system, or which latex material. I’m probably going to visit a show room to get a feel for latex this weekend and report back on this thread, since I’m not familiar with latex mattresses. I think most in my area only have Dunlop, not talalay.
Thank you!