Is The Mattress More Important Or The Bed When Buying A Mattress?
When buying a mattress you also have to decide whether or not the design or construction of your bed contributes significantly to your comfort
. Would you be just as comfortable to lay your mattress on a stone floor as if you had it resting on a properly sprung bed frame? In fact, the answer to that question is 'Yes': If you purchase a well-constructed modern mattress, the base it lies on is irrelevant to your comfort other than the ease of lying down and getting up the morning!First consider the bed. Are you buying your mattress together with a new bed, or for a bed you already have. Many people make the error of going for looks: they see a good-looking bed on display and decide that's the bed for them - they decide on the whole package, 'I want that!'. They will be provided with both the bed and the mattress on display - not the actual display items, but the same models - probably put together only for display. The bed and the mattress should be chosen separately: each plays its own part:
What the Bed Offers
Your choice of bed offers the style you want for your bedroom. Perhaps a wall bed would attract you with all its added features, or may a sleigh bed with its sweeping curves just like a sleigh. Or maybe just a simple plain pine bed is more to your liking. Irrespective of your personal preference, you should choose the general appearance of the bed to match the general design and look of your other bedroom furniture.
That is for looks! The frame of the bed is the part that would match the look and feel your bedroom. What lies on the frame will be what you mattress will lie on. In the 'old days' a bed would be constructed using a head and foot board attached to each other by means of a rectangular metal frame holding a bed of steel springs. These springs would be the base for a mattress made of flocked wool or foam slabs.
Spring mattresses were a later invention, ad they were lain on a solid base made of wood, lathes or even still using a framework of springs. You can have any of these today, although the bed itself would not be made from metal rails but from a wooden box structure. However, the base the mattress lies on is relatively unimportant with modern mattresses - it is the the way the mattress is made and constructed that contributes to your comfort.
Mattresses can be constructed fundamentally from spring or foam, or a combination of each. The type of foam known as 'memory foam' conforms to your shape when you sleep, and will 'remember' the same shape the next time you use it. Those foams that are not 'memory' foams are manufactured for price above comfort, and are generally provided with cheap mattresses. Foams can promote night sweating because they don't offer much air movement or ventilation. The better of the mattresses made using 'memory foam' help to prevent sweating and keep you cool because they include a unique ventilation system.
There are two specific types of spring mattresses: pocketed springs and inner springs. The innerspring design has each spring attached to its neighbor, so when one spring moves so do the neighboring springs - meaning that your partner feels it when you move about in the bed. It is possible to avoid this to a large extent by means of what are referred to as 'smart springs' in which adjoining springs are coiled in opposite directions, so that the movement of one is negated by the opposite movement of its neighbor. This significantly reduces the way the mattress reacts so that the disturbance between sleeping partners is minimized.
With the more expensive pocketed spring construction, each spring is tied into individual pockets that stand vertically from the bottom of the mattress, lying on the frame, to the top on which you would lie. There will then be no interference of comfort between partners, because each spring would move independently of those next to it. Because each spring is individually inserted into the pockets, the pocketed springs are the more expensive of the two, the innerspring mattresses being made from a framework of springs produced as a single item.
A modern mattress is constructed using a system on internal springs that can be either innersprings or pocketed springs (explained latter) with a a number of additional comfort layers added over this. These layers could be constructed of latex or foam to smooth out the bumps caused by the springs, and then perhaps a memory foam layer to further increase your comfort. Good mattresses can be formed from a core comprising the spring system, and then with a number of comfort layers surrounding that.
The price you pay will naturally vary according to the maker's name, but also with the number of layers involved in forming the mattress 'sandwich'. The comfort of your mattress will generally be determined by the system of springs used and also the 'comfort layers' overlying the springs. With modern mattresses the construction of the base of the bed has little influence on comfort, although if older or cheap mattresses are used then the base might be more significant.
However, all that aside, your comfort when sleeping comes from the mattress - and usually from the mattress alone, even average mattresses today being able to remove any discomfort in the base of the bed itself. That is one reason for so many of today's beds being constructed with a solid wood or simple foam base rather than using springs - select a good comfortable mattress and the base upon which it lies is largely irrelevant.
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