A comfortable nights sleep has been something I had missed for quite some time. Even without chronic illness, I've always had trouble getting to sleep or waking up uncomfortable from a low-quality mattress. When you're saving up for a house you always imagine you'd be buying a bed and mattress as your first items, and for sure these have been on our list for quite some time. While every month I'm putting in money towards our house deposit, it doesn't half dampen your spirit when you've had an awful nights sleep but still have to get up and work. For the first time in a while, aside from hotel stays, I've been sleeping better. I'm the proud owner of a Hush Sleep Premium Mattress! (£520)*
I thought a memory foam mattress for someone in their early twenties was out of the question as I'd heard they were super expensive and they're larger than normal mattresses so it would be even harder to get it in the house and up the stairs. What if I told you they were wrong. Before it was delivered I received a text with a 2-hour delivery slot on which worked well considering a lot of deliveries are just specified by day. The mattress comes rolled up in the packaging in the above photos, in a nice swiss roll looking shape, inside a box that's smaller than me (the width of the bed). It does take two people to carry it upstairs as it recommends on the box and due to chronic pain I didn't do this myself. When you put the mattress on the bed you begin to unroll it and it's still vacuum sealed at this point and looks quite thin. Once you cut open the plastic and take it off, we flipped it over to the correct side and it began to 'inflate'. It basically doubled in size and although I've read you're supposed to let them do their thing I had to lie on it immediately as it looked so comfortable. I was right.
It was strange getting used to the mattress as I was used to springs poking me in the ribs, but this was like sleeping on a cloud in comparison. It's made up of full-size springs and memory foam so has the durability with added comfort. I was so surprised at how deep the mattress is, and as you can see from the above photos it was unusual for me having to get up onto a higher bed. The bed frame we have has four drawers underneath with them filled to the brim as we moved from university up in Newcastle back to my Dad's house almost two years ago so since we're saving we don't have a glamourous bed frame to really show off the mattress. Besides that, the brighter photos do it justice and I can't believe how much my sleep has improved since throwing our old mattress away and replacing it with memory foam Hush Sleep one.
The mattress features 1,000 pocket count 18cm full-size pocket springs and 'next generation memory foam'. Inside the mattress are numerous layers which all provide different things to help aid you in a good nights sleep. The top layer is a soft-knit fabric with Hush branding on and provides an excellent sleeping surface. The breathable design helps to keep the mattress cool which will be great when the summer months roll around. there's a soft white supportive layer to protect the memory foam, a supportive base for the memory foam, a fibre insulator to cushion the springs that are below the luxury foam layers, a support core and the foundation. The support core is the heart of the mattress (Revo) which uses a unique open cell structure to increase airflow by up to 30 times compared to a premium visco-elastic mattress. The foundation is a combination of foam and fabric to stabilise the base. You can tell a lot of research has gone into making the mattress, which you would expect as the company have 145 years of manufacturing experience in total. The mattress is made in the UK in Wiltshire with free delivery anywhere in the UK.
