Thanks for the info.
Those guys out at Texas Mattress Makers are pretty serious about their beds.
I met with a guy named Lax, who was really very nice and a lot of fun to deal with. They shoot it straight it appears.
Their showroom is deep inside their warehouse, it’s a very different experience than someplace like a big store, at first maybe even a little weird. The showroom is surrounded by mattresses piled to the ceiling (looks like they are all bagged awaiting shipping)
You can also tell they make A LOT of mattresses when they have their own white 18 wheel’rs out back with a very nondescript “noahs mfg” on them
I ended up buying a model called the Barcelona, which is two layer pocketed micro coil with coils made by Legget & Platt? This model is not on their website, but from what I understand is the same as the “rome” but without the thinner, upper HD layer on top, making it slightly firmer.
He explained it an interesting way. That if you buy a bed that is firm, you can make it cradle more by topping it yourself. But if you buy one too soft already, it’s hard to make firmer if you want.
Construction looked to my eye to be similar to the VI Statesman, two layers of coils, padding on top, but with a foam bottom if I remember correctly (an no wool of course).
I fell asleep on the thing while I was waiting for Lax to make his way back to me, and it was amazing. Delivery on Thursday.
I’m really interested in trying a wool topper, like the one made by flobeds.
So all in all, I think that texas mattress makers is a hidden Houston gem! You’re basically looking at huge manufacturer of hotel and private label beds that dislikes the way big super stores treat people, so thereby opened their own showroom just for kicks. My experience was very good. It was interesting to me that there were a lot of people in the showroom that I feel like probably couldn’t appreciate just what they were looking at in terms of craftsman ship and quality, unfortunate.
He might have been bs’ing me a little, but he said a bed such as this would retail in the 10k range if in a major store. Dunno if that’s true or not.
One day, I would like to own a VI Spring, just like you said, it’s a work of art, but today was not that day :whistle: