Did you know you can DIY a high-quality mattress?
You absolutely can!
(and it’ll be less expensive, longer-lasting, and healthier than anything you’d buy at the store)
We Do Not Sell Mattresses
We just want to teach you how to make one.
WHY DIY? There are several very compelling reasons.
DIY MATTRESS SUCCESS STORIES
Lots of Folks Have Made Their Own High-Quality Mattresses
While it may sound crazy, if you can assemble IKEA furniture, you can DIY your own mattress.
It’s remarkably easy.
All the same components used by the big mattress manufacturers are also available for us to buy, in exactly the sizes we need.
- Pocketed Coils
- Latex Foam
- Polyfoams
- Memory Foam
- Wool Batting
- Microcoils
Then you just stack your components inside a zippered mattress cover, and boom! You have a phenomenal mattress at a fantastic price.
It’s quite a bit more bouncy than I thought it would be (I’ve only ever owned memory foam mattresses, this is my first hybrid & first latex), but it still has great motion isolation.
It feels cushy and supportive, hugs my body in the right ways, and relieves pressure from my muscles and joints.
We’ll Never Add another Mattress to The Landfill
We’ve even moved cross-country twice, and the mattress came apart and back together with ease.
Assembling Our Zippered MATTRESS WAS Really EASY
But once I understood the value of a zippered mattress, it was pretty simple to decide what we needed, where to buy the parts, and how to put it together.
A Huge Money saver! Wish I’d Done It Sooner
And I love that I have mattresses that will last a lifetime and maybe only need repairing every once in a while.
LOOK INSIDE
Let’s Rip Open A Mattress:
A $5000 Serta Vera Wang
We love a good let’s-rip-open-a-factory-sealed-mattress! video, and we’ve collected more of them here. It’s clearly to the retailers’ advantage that we can’t see what’s inside these expensive mattresses, or we’d never agree to pay the inflated prices.
Not What Was Expected
In the video below, Pablo from Mattress Makers cuts open a Sealy Vera Wang to show us how little actual latex is inside what was marketed as a latex mattress.
Such A Waste
He also illuminates that the latex he finds is in great condition. But, unfortunately, when we throw away whole mattresses (because without a zippered cover they are totally unrepairable), we often also throw away perfectly good components simply because the top layer or two has become compressed.
Latex tends to be quite pricey as it’s a highly desirable mattress component – a shame to toss in the landfill for no reason.
Mattresses Are Not Complex
Pablo also briefly touches on the three main components of every mattress: The comfort layer(s), the support layer(s), and the mattress cover.
The comfort layer is the top layer (or layers) of a mattress. It provides pressure relief and, well… comfort. Coziness. It’s also the layer that will almost always fail first.
A Zipper Cover Would Solve It
When we have a mattress with a zippered cover, we can replace those top layers when they get lumpy, bumpy, or saggy.
Support Layers Last Longer
The support layer provides… wait for it… support. Crazy, right? Nearly all decent-quality support layers will outlast any mattress’s comfort layers.
And since the latex support layer in this Vera Wang mattress is still in excellent shape, with a new comfort layer and a zippered cover, that latex support layer could easily be the basis for a high-quality new DIY mattress build that will last for many more years to come.
ZIPPERED MATTRESSES
👀 pssst…wanna cut open some factory-sealed mattresses and see what’s really inside? ✂️ ✂️
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DIY Mattress Blueprints
You can build your own mattress using all the same components the pros do at a fraction of the cost! We have loads of blueprints and case studies to help you decide what might work best for your DIY mattress build.
Think of it like a recipe book… you can look for an exact version you’d like to try or browse for inspiration and ideas.
