Weekendy Update Stuff

[elfs]

It was a very busy weekend here at the Villa Sternberg. Omaha and I bought a bed.

Which meant moving the new queen-sized bed out of the garage and into the living room to stage it, then dismantling and moving the king out of the bedroom into the garage space now cleared, and then installing the queen. It was a ton of work.

And when we were done, we realized that the new bed was almost six inches (15cm) higher than the old. It feels like we have to climb into bed, quite literally. It's so high that the nightstands, which used to be level with our mattress, are now far and away. The cat has an adventure jumping onto the damned thing.

We're still getting used to it. My back isn't used to the new mattress, which is single-sided. Omaha and I hadn't expected that. It turns out that bed manufacturers are using much less metal in their springs, but they're also using more springs, to make the mattress, and adding inches of "comfort material" (latex, foam and that terrible "memory foam" stuff), and that's what makes it thicker. Also, having to make only one side human-conformant reduces the cost.

I blame the cat for sleeping poorly last night, though. Haven't been cooking much, although I did make the kidlet Mac & Cheese after her first ballet class of the year, and her first one ever where she's going on toe. I need to make a run up to the massage store to get more oil; I can see I'm going to be giving footrubs for a while yet.

Comments

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

Where did you go to buy your mattress? Usually there are all kinds of options... firmness, 'comfort' top, memory foam, etc.. Most can be adjusted or deleted from the final product.
Took two weeks for the custom we ordered to arrive.

We declined the comfort top due to the added thickness, as that can make finding sheets a PITA. It is a king and is essentially a square, so it is not only double sided, it also rotates during the flipping cycle.

We declined getting a box-spring, because it was to be placed on a pedestal waterbed frame which was already 32 inches high. So I know what you mean about climbing into bed. If our house did not have 9' ceilings, the mattress would never clear the ceiling fan when being flipped...

Without the box-spring, the warranty went from 10yrs down to 7yrs.
At 12+ years, it is now starting showing signs of needing replaced.

Also.. I dont know why, but every time you put Villa in front of your name, my brain reads 'Stromberg'...

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Why did you move to a smaller bed?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The bedroom in this house isn't really big enough for a king-sized bed, so we've been using the bedroom next to ours as a staging and dressing area. Now that the kids are adolescent, we needed to clear out that bedroom and give each girl her own room. Moving the clothes into our room, however, necessitated getting a smaller bed.

We originally got the king as a way of ensuring we could co-sleep the kids, too. They're both too old for that, so we could afford to downsize.

Sounds like a private equity brand mattress...

[pakraticus.livejournal.com]

As in you bought a name brand that had been bought up years ago by a private equity firm. And that firm has been progressively making it crappier to squeeze as much money out of it as possible until folks finally say "X brand mattresses are a pile of crap." BTW, those non-flip mattresses not only reduce cost, they also cause you to need to replace them earlier. Not that the other brands are worth a damn most of the time either.