From the moment you welcomed your sweet little bundle of joy into the world, you’ve worked through your fair share of tears and tantrums, night lights and white noise machines, swaddling blankets and bedtime stories. You’ve fine-tuned every detail of your child’s sleep environment because you’ve had to—we can relate—but have you considered the very…
Invest in Your Marriage. Get a Better Bed.
Marriage is hard; anyone who’s been married more than 5 minutes can probably tell you that. It’s an institution that mandates constant compromise, humility and vulnerability. So it’s no wonder so many of our partnerships get a little off track. Many couples struggle to balance their marriages with the relentless pace of the professional realm,…
A whole town built around sleep?
Back away, Sleepy Hollow. (We mean both the town of literary fame and those hollows under your eyes.) Whether you’re a night owl in a morning person’s world, stumbling bleary-eyed to the coffee maker, or a morning person who just can’t get your spouse to go to bed at a decent hour, we may have…
The Temperature Battle and How Foam Saved the Day
When couples sleep together, they generally have to compromise on sleeping conditions. Unless you get really, really lucky. One likes the TV on while the other wants complete silence. One likes to be covered in blankets while the other wants nothing to do with them. And one always likes it hot while the other always…
Mattress Quality Equals Sleep Quality
If you thought the quality of your mattress didn’t make a difference, think again. According to this article from the Huffington Post and a study by Research Triangle International and Drs. Andy Krystal and Jack Edinger from Duke University, you may not have to be a princess with long blonde hair and a pink dress to feel…
Get Back to Sleeping Comfortably with the Right Mattress
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic. Not getting enough shut-eye has been linked with motor vehicle crashes, occupational errors and also industrial disasters. Think back to a time when you went out before work the next morning. Were you groggy and unfocused the next…
Giving back to Mother Nature
Urbanity: It can evoke images of concrete, high-rises, traffic, iconic graffiti, fashion, technology and other manmade things. But it also means parks, lakes, historic trees, trails and rivers and the occasional spectacular sunset. At Urban Mattress, we care about the environment and good ole Mother Nature just like we care about our cities. We want…
A mattress limerick. Yes, they exist.
In case you weren’t sure yet, here’s proof that we have the best, funniest customers on the planet; customers who become our friends…and who occasionally write us poetry. Yep. Who wouldn’t enjoy the rhymetastic talents of this awesome mattress-seeker from Boulder, Colorado–one Bethany Hentkowski? Read on. You won’t regret it. “I was so impressed by my…
This year at the gym–make it count
Sleep Healthy: An occasional series on urban lifestyle choices and sleep It’s no secret that January is unofficially “Gym Month.” This is the time that regular gym members might feel a smidge of contempt when they walk into their Place of Workout to find their favorite treadmill occupied, and every other inch of the building…
The Miracle of Holiday Travel
It’s that time of year when the world falls in love. When more people get bumped in shopping malls or rear-ended in traffic yet manage to remain cheery amid the melee. When everyone and their mothers try to get on a plane and some don’t make it because they misjudged the misery of the security line. The holidays…