Hi, i love the community you’ve built. The conversation is deeply insightful, and I’m very impressed.
Please help me figure out a purchase.
We’re moving from a King to a Queen because we are happily downsizing to a smaller home in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY, and need a new mattress. We currently sleep on a W Hotels mattress purchased four years ago. It’s always been rather giving but does a nice job of supporting the curves. However it also slopes on the edges (has from day one) and it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning—there’s not enough resistance.
With that in mind, we paid a visit to the local Sleepy’s, and having already done a little research, knew that we’d end up paying 2-3X what we want to (500-800) for something that was probably not entirely satisfactory. We wound up gravitating to GS Stearns Ultrafirm and Luxury Firm, and it was about that time that I discovered your site. (We also paid a visit to Ikea and were unimpressed.)
Saatva seems interesting to me and, given our current bed, seems like the Luxury Firm model might work both budget and sleepwise. But I’ve become well aware that the community seems to believe there is less than meets the eye here, and that other, less well known, mattress manufacturers might offer more for the money. The ones that seem to pop up are the Denver Durango and although it’s very different Tuft and Needle.
I’m finding it increasingly hard however to have a sense of direction about this, especially given Phoenix’s perspective that there are plenty of local options that might deliver more bang for the buck—and so I feel I have to pay a visit to Charles Rogers as well (and I guess I could probably visit Casper too…and then who’s next!)
Meanwhile, we move on Friday and will have to sleep on a borrowed air mattress until we actually get something.
So: Based on our current choices and our seeming predilection for hybrid spring plus some kind of foam with more firmness and better edging, can you make recommendations? Am I going in the right direction? My wife says I always bog down in research, so I’m determined to push on to a decision asap.
Your assistance firmly appreciated:)