Eco-friendly mattresses just like organic bedding is the next big thing and Zedbed, a foam mattress company based in Quebec, Canada is already cashing into it. The company recently unveiled a new series of mattresses that are made with the latest in foam technology. The newly announced SnowPedic mattress is  soy based and also features cooling gel crystals. It also ships with the  Autumn Steel COOLMAX Fabric that has been designed to provide maximum coolness and comfort.
ZedBed also introduced three ZX models and the features are listed below:

The ZX 1 sleep surface is made with 2″ of open-cell ZX soy based hybrid foam featuring Zedbed’s gel crystal additive for a soft feel.

The ZX 2 sleep surface is made with 2″ of open-cell ZX soy based hybrid foam featuring Zedbed’s gel crystal additive for a soft feel. This mattress also includes 1″ of open-cell Zedpur Enviro material that also has the gel crystal additive.

The ZX 3 sleep surface is made with 2″ of open-cell ZX soy based hybrid foam featuring Zedbed’s gel crystal additive for a soft feel. The second layer of foam is also made with 2″ of open-cell ZX soy based foam infused with gel crystals.

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Soy Based Mattress By Zedbed,

Though the issue on bed bugs may have simmered down, it is highly doubtful that these bed pests are no longer around. Known to carry mischief and total discomfort if you are not overly careful on how to prevent them from infesting your bed or mattresses, here is something which should protect you in case you are unsure if they are still around.

This is the Bed Bug Thwarting Sleep Cocoon, a blanket that will keep out those nasty bed bugs. The blanket can be a handy one to bring along as well, especially if you are the type who sleeps in hotels or in various places if you are the frequent traveling type.

The Bed Bug Thwarting Sleeping Cocoon was made by Hammacher Schlemmer and retails for about $80. It even comes with a lifetime guarantee!

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Bed Bug Thwarting Sleeping Cocoon

You would think that gadgets would be the only ones you would see at the CES 2011 in Las Vegas but it seems there are some mattresses in the mix too. Things like the Vivon Prestige luxury mattress line were likewise there, a product in collaboration with Brookstone.

The mattress comes with a built-in massage system that can be used in five modalities with six different motors to provide an enriching full-body massage covering the critical parts of your body. There are three models available. They are the Prestige III, Prestige II and Prestige I priced at $899, $749 and $599 respectively. The mattresses are now available for pre-order.

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Vivon Life Mattresses with Built-in Massage System launched at CES 2011

Give your kids something contemporary and flexible with this cool twin bed design which you can use either as a bunk or loft bed. It comes with a lovely modern wooden ladder complemented by an overall dynamic white coated framework that any tot is bound to love.

The elevated frame makes for great under-bed storage space in the single-twin variant while the doubled-up design has a low-hanging bottom level but creates free-floating planes at each loft level for a full sense of openness on both the upper and lower bunks and on all sides. Flush mattresses sit just above level with the frame on both levels as well for comfort, but include tuck-in space along the edges for ease of bed-making.

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Twin Beds to Bunk or Loft

A Donald Trump Collection of mattresses? Why Not? The popular billionaire has practically everything so why not a mattress collection right? These collection of mattresses are a result of the Donald Trump Collection of mattresses conjunction with Serta.

They were made especially for Trump’s chain of hotels. Although they were specially made for his hotels, these mattresses will also be available for public purchase. No word on how much they would retail but you can bet they will cost a lot!

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Donald Trump Collection of Mattresses

• We use our beds more than any other item of furniture
• The average life of a mattress is 10 years
• A comfortable bed will give you around one hour’s extra sleep a night
• One in five people in the UK suffer from a severe lack of sleep
• Sleep problems are one of the most common complaints people go to the doctor with
• 93% of GPs agree that a comfortable and supportive bed will improve sleep
• You move approximately 60 to 70 times a night with up to a dozen full body turns
• You grow 2cm during the night because your spine is compressed during the day and has chance to straighten at night
• 85% of doctors believe there is a link between old beds and asthma
• Your mattress can double in weight over 10 years with built up dust
• The average mattress has up to 10m dust mites in it
• 10% of your pillow weight maybe made up of dead dust mites

After reading these facts, maybe you’ll want to check your mattress and bed is fresh and clean, and if not take a look at our fantastic range on offer.

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Purchasing a high quality orthopaedic mattress not only helps to prevent the pressure and symptoms of lower back pain, but can also relieve the onset of the problem in the future by giving you the best level of support now.

It is estimated that 80% of people will have back problems at some point in their lives and approximately 50% of adults in the UK currently have back pain. Lower back pain can affect everyday tasks from dressing to cleaning and gardening, and it is expected that it costs the UK economy £5bn each year, with 300,000 people claiming benefits for back problems and 1.1m disabled from lower back pain.

One of the main causes of lower back pain is from sleeping in an awkward position or sleeping on a poor quality mattress that doesn’t have the best level of support or pressure relief. This creates stress on the back muscles that place the back under strain.

An orthopaedic mattress helps to encourage a peaceful night’s sleep by ensuring the spine is fully supported in the best places and in the spring systems with a top layer of foam.

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Orthopaedic Mattresses

Bed bugs are reddish-brown insects that usually hide in mattresses and can breed at a quick rate, they survive by sucking blood, mainly at night. They can also be easily spread to clothes, bags and other furniture.

Although they don’t carry diseases, when bittedn by a bed bug it can cause itchy swelling. You can spot a bed bug on sheets by looking for black dots, which is the faeces of the bug, and also small spots of blood. Regularly changing your sheets can help reduce the risk of bed bugs, but you can also get rid of them completely by buying a hypoallergenic mattress or divan bed.

The hypoallergenic fillings within some of our mattresses and divan beds mean bed bugs cannot survive, and in particular memory foam mattresses and latex foam mattresses reduce the risk of bed bugs because they cannot breathe within the foam and therefore cannot breed.

Bed Bugs on the Rise…Hypoallergenic Mattresses the Way Forward

At Click 4 Beds we recently expanded into the contract bed market with our new range of Palatine Bed bases and mattresses. This gives us even more choice for our customers and at Click 4 Beds we’re always expanding our product range.

Palatine Beds are the first beds in our contract beds section, they offer excellent quality contract bases and contract mattresses. They have been manufacturing retail and contract beds for over 60 years, combining traditional craftsmanship with modern state of the art technology.

Contract beds can be found in all kinds of commerical environments including boarding schools, hotels and guest houses, student accommodation, and care homes.

They are much more durable and long lasting than consumer beds, which makes them ideal for commerical environments where they undergo extensive use. Contract bases and mattresses aren’t as pleasing on the eye as consumer ones, but are appropriate for their purpose.

All contract bed bases and contract mattresses have to be fully compliant with strict UK and EU fire legislations, the standard UK and EU fire regulations for beds and mattresses in the contract sector are of Medium Standard. Failure to use contract beds and mattresses can lead to prosecution.

They have to adhere to the minimum requirements of BS7177, which include the following tests:

• BS EN597-1 (Cigarette)

• BS EN597-2 (Match)

• CRIB 5 – BS6807

All the Palatine Beds at Click 4 Beds are fully compliant with all UK and EU legislations and are long lasting, durable and cost effective.

Contract Beds and Contract Mattresses

If there is one constraint that mattress buyers have to deal with, this has to be the price. With the crisis affecting most households today, it is apparent that people are looking for better deals where they can save a good buck, something that could have been eventually considered by MattressNextDay.co.uk that led to them announced these specially reduced prices on select mattresses. They include the most prestigious and well known brands like Silentnight, Sealy, Dorlux and Slumberland.

With this new range of mattresses extending to even include the Sealy brand and long established worldwide prestigious company that have been manufacturing beds for over 200 years, they know what is required to maintain their ever dominating presence within the industry.

Just go to Mattress Next Day and check out all the great products they have to offer, just add them to you basket and follow the easy on-screen instructions. Also take Advantage of their free Next Day Delivery service so you can ordering it today and sleep on it tomorrow!

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Here is something that should come in handy for people who want something handy and healthy to lie on. The Deluxe mattress pad comes with a 250 thread-count made of a 100% cotton top. It has a Damask woven stripe design and fits mattresses up to 22 inches.

The Deluxe mattress pad also has a fully quilted top and hypoallergenic polyester fill. Machine washable and dryable for added convienience.

Price: $24.99

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Deluxe 100% Cotton Damask Stripe Mattress Pad

Valued at $115,000, Sleep Experts has donated 120 mattresses to the Ronald McDonald House, a cause that likewise solicits your help. Aside from this donation, they are welcoming other necessities for the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas families.

Other needs that include toiletries, office and kitchen supplies, toys and gift cards are being solicited and can be dropped off at any of its 34 mattress stores through the end of July.

Sleep Experts supports the D/FW community through partnerships with more than 20 area nonprofit organizations that nurture and care for children and families in crisis. Through its Rest Assured program, every time a customer buys a new Sleep Experts mattress, the company recycles the old mattress and donates it to one of these organizations.

To date, Sleep Experts has provided more than 6,000 beds to the community and donated over $400,000 in recycled mattresses, resulting in over a million nights of sleep for thousands of families in need.

The Ronald McDonald House of Dallas has served as a home-away-from-home for more than 26,000 families of seriously ill children who have traveled to Dallas seeking medical treatment in area hospitals.

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Sleep Experts Donate 120 Mattress to Ronald McDonald House

Perhaps companies such as General Motors who are facing restructuring problems can get some tips from the team over at Banner Bedding which incidentally escaped the Chapter 11 axe thanks to a wisely restructured balance sheet. The reorganization plan proposed by Weintraub and Selth was accepted by their creditors, paving the way for their continued operations during these hard times.

Banner Bedding, a mattress company founded by the Scorzeill family, commenced doing business in 1926 in Ohio. In 1964, the company moved to California and has been managed by three generations of the Scorzeill family to date. The company, which originally manufactured mattresses for the wholesale market, grew to encompass 37 retail stores to compliment its factory and production facility.

The general economic downturn following Banner’s rapid expansion created a need to revisit the company’s operational methodology. On June 9, 2008, Banner filed its petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, choosing Weintraub & Selth to lead it through chapter 11′s unchartered waters.

Thank God for their swift actions and kudos to the people who put together a wise restructuring plan for the company’s sake!

This event is not affiliated with Bedzine.

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The best things in life are free and apparently you may get a great luxury mattress for your troubles. Other than not spending a dime, if you are lucky enough then you can imagine the savings and the comfort you can get from them.

Starting April 15, interested individuals will be able to visit Bragada’s new Website, MattressOfYourDreams.com, and sign up for the contest. To be eligible, contestants simply have to submit a photo of themselves on their bed with a sign saying “I need a new Bragada.”

The grand prize is a Madison memory foam mattress from Bragada’s Cashmere Collection line, formerly called the Luxury Collection, in the size of their choice. The new name references the mattresses’ cashmere covers.

The contest also includes prizes for runners-up:

• The second place winner will get a three-inch memory foam topper and a set of memory foam pillows
• The third place winner will get $100 off any purchase of $699 or more
• The fourth place winner will get a free set of memory foam pillows

The contest’s duration will be six to eight weeks, depending on the company’s discretion. If a contestant cannot wait that long for a new mattress, they have the option of purchasing a Bragada mattress before the contest ends and receiving a reimbursement from Bragada if they are the winner.

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Get a Chance to Win a Free Luxury Mattress from America’s Old & Ugly Mattress Contest

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There are quite a few different types of futon bed mattresses available in the market and in online stores and they belong to various price ranges. It is easy to get confused between the several types that you will get to see. Let me provide you with some tips that will get you going.

There are two types of futon bed mattresses available nowadays. One is the bi fold variety and the other is the tri fold variety. If you want the mattress to fold in half lengthwise, just down the middle, then you should go for the bi fold variety. And if you want the frame to hold the mattress in thirds along its width, then you should opt for the tri fold one. In this frame, a third part of the mattress will form the backrest, a third part will constitute the sofa seat and the rest will either slip beneath the seat or fold over the back.

The tri fold futon bed mattress is easier to pack and store away since it occupies less space, but the seating area is less. But you can get a wider seating space with the bi fold frame. The tri fold futon bed mattress when folded up resembles a two seater sofa which is pretty cramped. Compared to that, the bi fold futon bed mattress has more similarity with a traditional sofa set.

If you intend to use your futon bed mattress primarily as a bed, then I feel the bi fold variety will be a far better choice as it will offer you strength of support, it is more ergonomically designed, it is heavier and more ideal for sleeping on . Besides, they are more pleasing to the eye. You should opt for a tri fold futon bed mattress, only when space has become a very big issue.

As far as comfort is concerned, the bi fold variety will win hands down because it is thick, supportive, rigid, and firm and possesses all the qualities that you would expect from a bed. The tri fold variety isn’t that comfortable for sleeping on. It is more geared towards seating purpose.

Kristen Mccoy is the leading expert in Futon Bed Mattress. She has helped hundreds of people choose their bed mattresses. Visit her Futon Bed Mattress blog and get more info on bed mattress http://www.futonbedmattress.com

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How Do I Know Which Futon Bed Mattress Is Ideal For My Needs?

Nothing beats being a good host and with this new trundle bed from McRoskey, a known luxury mattress maker. The McRoskey Trundle Beds offers the trademark McRoskey comfort in daybed, trundle and rollaway beds to make your guests feel pampered during their stay.

Special package pricing of $1,950 for the trundle bed frame and two twin McRoskey mattresses translates into over $500 in savings compared to purchase of the pieces individually.

This ingeniously designed bed consists of two units: the top (fixed position) daybed and the rolling, bottom trundle bed. The bottom trundle bed is stored under the top daybed, and easily rolls out and pops up to the same height as the top bed. The two pieces are independent, and the trundle unit can be rolled anywhere in the room. The McRoskey Mattress for the daybed and trundle is available in cot size (30″ x 75″) or twin size (38″ x 75″) mattresses.

The McRoskey mattress is handcrafted with great attention to detail. The combination of the McRoskey mattress innerspring unit, the multiple layers of fiber filling materials and breathability results in comfortably cool support without pressure points.

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McRoskey Offers Special Package Pricing on Trundle Beds

Prices for the Bloom Ego Double Bed start from $4,650.00 and if this bed catches your fancy, then head over here for more details. The bed’s structure is leather and it comes equipped with a noticeable stylish headboard.

Features:
# Traditional-looking modern bed
# Stylish headboard
# Slats for mattresses

Size Option:
# Queen Size
# King Size

Bloom Ego Double Bed

What happens to your old mattress when they have already used up their reliable product life? Throw them away and wait for the garbage collectors to collect? Give them to charity or the needy? If you have an old mattress, hold on for a moment and see what things you can do with it. Something like re-use or recycling perhaps?

As mattresses have become more and more of a disposal issue, improved recycling and reuse options are coming into play. Where they are recycled, mattresses are often deconstructed: the foam, fiber, steel and wood from beds separated, bailed and recycled separately into new goods, such as other mattresses and carpet padding. Generally, reusing the unit as a whole is not a popular choice for safety reasons. But don’t shudder just yet at the idea of mattress reuse – there are more options out there than you think.

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Old Mattresses Turned into New Furniture

The Round Mattress is a round waterbed mattress made from 22 mil waterbed vinyl, with Radial Lap Seams. Available in 7 or 8 foot diameter, it requires a wooden frame.

“We offer full motion (free flow) and three levels of wave reduction to suite every customers needs. The wave reduced mattresses contain full sheets of edge to edge 1.2 oz Dupont fiber. They have a 10 year manufacturer’s warranty; five years being full, remaining five pro-rated.”

The Round Mattress

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia unveiled Martha Stewart The Good Bed, a new line of branded mattresses. Available through select independent furniture stores, the line consists of twelve mattresses, each covered in woven or knit tickings of 100% cotton and starting at $1,000. The mattresses are available in twin, full, queen, king, and California king sizes, and in comfort levels of firm, medium-firm, and plush.

Martha Stewart, MSLO’s Founder, stated: “Our lives today are so demanding and fast-paced that it can be hard to wind down at the end of the day. When I go to sleep, I want a mattress that is comfortable and well made. The Good Bed line is exactly that: our mattresses are designed using the highest quality materials such as 100% cotton, New Zealand wool, natural latex, and kiln-dried spruce.”

Martha Stewart The Good Bed

For parents who want complete and tailor-made furniture for your kids, checking out what Flexa offers may be a good idea. For one, Flexa takes pride in understanding kids and making sure that they get the proper sleeping needs and room enhancers to make sure that they get the best comfort towards home need and ambiance support.

Flexa does not thrive on purely convenience. They make sure that the bed and furniture ensembles that they are providing are aimed towards proper child support and needs.

“It’s very important that kids sleep on a mattress that is aligned perfectly,” Vedel Egly said. “Often manufacturers use a normal mattress, which is a lot thicker.”

Flexa offers five mattresses that are designed to adjust to the height and weight of children as they grow. A wood veneer slat system, which was developed to provide flexible support, has replaced the conventional box spring.

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The Flexa Bed and Furniture for your Kids

For our babies, we would want them to get the best comfort wherever they may be sleeping like portacots. This includes placing additional foams, mattresses and pillows to get that soft sleeping position that babies are bound to love.

But while the intent is good, they can also be a threat. Babies do not have the same strength that adults may have and just in case, suffocation once these additional mattresses fall on them unknowingly.

Association executive director Tim Wain said he was alarmed by the findings of a Monash University Accident Research Centre study that suggested one in three people used additional padding with their portacots, unaware of the dangers to children.

“When you apply an additional mattress … it creates a gap that the child can roll into and because the sides of the portacot are flexible they can’t lift themselves out and suffocate,” he said.

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Portacot with Extra Mattresses Pose as a Suffocation Hazard

When you are doing business, you have to get new ideas. Normally you would expect your business and development team to come up with one but don’t forget your customers who may want something custom-made not only for them but for you to consider as well.

Such was the idea that Magniflex Gold Pet Mattress got when a wealthy Russian client asked for a custom-made Gold Mattress for her Maltese. Gold Mattress sales have not exactly been comforting, perhaps due to its price ($24,000 for queen size and $30,000 for king size) and looking at other options just happened to fall on their lap.

The Magniflex Gold Pet Mattress has been added to their product line and are being offered between $1,000 to $3,000. They can be ordered directly at the Magniflex website.

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Gold Thread Mattresses for Pets

For one thing, sales are being held due to overstock of old items that may not necessarily be categorized as the fast moving items. A lot of these are home furnishings and if you are wise you would take a closer look if they are indeed worthy purchasing. They may not be hot right now and for sure if you have the product worth extinct, you would agree that it does not always follow that you are getting a bargain.

Finally, the timing of your purchase is crucial – which means you may have done well to wait until the last days of clearance. Most stores are unwilling to discuss quite how low they will go, but at Heal’s, where a spirit of openness prevails, they cheerfully disclose that there will be reductions of up to 70% in the last week.

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Avoid The Home Furniture Discount and Sale Baits

Last week, Nicole Kidman gave birth to her biological daughter, Sunday Rose and hasn’t been seen since then. It wasn’t until July 16 that she was spotted at a mattress shop in Nashville apparently looking for new mattresses for her or her child. She was seen going in and out of the store with her husband Keith Urban.

Being the first biological child of Kidman, perhaps she is simply looking out for the welfare of her baby. And one good thing to do is to look for the best mattress in town where she and their baby can rest well. Besides, she has the money to buy one so for sure she will be open to the best bed mattress available in the market today.

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Nicole Kidman Looking for a New Mattress

To get quality sleep these days, you have to protect yourself from the bugs. Its not just about how these bed bugs can give you a rash. It is also about making sure that comfort as well.

Asthma is another issue that has to be resolved. For most people these days, the fabrics to which most mattresses and pillows are made from contribute towards how well anyone can sleep. Hence, getting these protectors courtesy of CleanBrands go way beyond avoiding the bed bugs. It is also about trying to sleep freely with health considerations in tow when bedtime comes.

“I created MicronOne(TM) fabric technology to help relieve my son’s nighttime asthma and allergy problems,” said company founder and President Gary Goldberg. “Clean, healthy sleep should be made available to everyone and CleanBrands is thrilled to partner with Wal-Mart to enable consumers across the country to experience a whole new level of allergen protection, healthy sleep and peace of mind with our BeneSleep(TM) line of products.”

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BeneSleep To Annihilate the Bed Bugs

While most of us are busy figuring out what bed to get for ourselves, people in some parts of the world are lucky enough to have a good place to sleep. A lot of this points to the people who are less fortunate, having to look for a good place to rest which often times is the concrete floors of public places.

Many of us fail to see it since we are too occupied going home and enjoying our own beds. Just bear in mind, while you are complaining of worn out beds or mattresses, people out there would be more than willing to trade places you to get quality sleep.

The film, which documents the lives of four homeless people in Atlanta, will have a free premiere at Theatre Dublin beginning at 8 p.m. Friday.

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Concrete Mattress is a Must See Film

The Blog, Mettes Potteri has a very interesting post on how to make your own Sofabed without much sweat. All you need is bed linen, two normal mattresses and maybe some gumption!

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“The back cushions contain a foam mattress in the size 90 cm. by 90 cm. 9 cm. thick It is folded and hold together with a strap. When we have friend over two of these on the floor makes it out for one bed. The foam sort of makes the mattress stick to the floor so it doesn’t slide apart during the night. We make the bed in the extra room, so it is still possible to have a little privacy. It works very well..”

DIY Sofabed

In a world where finance and pricing are obviously two erratic words today, bed manufacturer Five Star Mattress has followed a different route, trying to become consumer-friendly and cutting down on its retail prices. Just when most companies today are trying desperately to determine how to offset raw materials and operation costs, here is a company that is going the opposite direction.

A professional business expert would call it suicide or perhaps a product of inferior quality. But on a business strategy aspect, it is a brilliant move to capture a majority of the bedding market. Surely it will garner a large chunk of the pie but hopefully, it will not sink its teeth in the overall production cost and provide profits.

“This is not a temporary rollback, but new, more competitive pricing that will rock the industry, providing higher margins for dealers than was ever thought possible,” she said. “We are making a big push to gain additional business. We are the only producer in the industry that is lowering prices.”

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Five Star Mattresses for Reasonable Pricing

We all have heard of the Princess and the Pea story and now members of the fairer sex can relive the fantasy, courtesy the Princess Bed. The bed comes with several mattresses to combat backpains and also makes you feel like loyalty.

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Princess Bed

Declaring bankruptcy may save you from further legal mitigations as far as payables are concerned but for large bed companies such as Dormia, it does not stop there. Acting apparently on their claim of bankruptcy, Dormia has been ordered to liquidate all its assets and products before it closes its doors.

For Dormia, this means additional work prior to closing the books. But for the consumers like us, it means lucrative discounts towards bed products such as mattresses, pillows and bed covers.

After the sales, Dormia will close all of its store locations, though it will continue to manufacture bedding products to be sold by other retailers.

Bankrupt mattress retailer Dormia has been ordered by a bankruptcy court to sell off all the merchandise at its retail locations – including its two stores in the Triangle.

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Dormia Ordered to Liquidate all Bed Products

Though the bed bugs may not be immediately seen but can wreak havoc in our journey towards safe and sound sleep, we can always look for alternatives. This does not mean you have to use the normal aerosols everyday when you are not lying on your bed. There are solutions called bed bug barriers that can trap and kill these pesky bugs which deprive you of comfortable sleep.

There are various solutions offered by most bed companies. Companies such as Bed Bath and Beyond and Allergy Solutions Inc., have developed programs for this growing issue. Given the right emphasis, these bed bugs may yet be the thing of the past once we start to fight them with the arsenal provided by these bed companies.

“Just a couple of years ago, it was a pest that not many people had seen. Now, virtually every pest control company that we’re in contact with is dealing with regular bedbug incidents,” said Greg Baumann, vice president of Technical Services for the National Pest Management Association.

Because bedbugs are primarily associated with mattresses, some companies are now designing protective products for bedding. London Luxury LLC has just introduced a collection of “bed bug barrier bedding,” mattress and pillow protectors, available through Bed Bath & Beyond.

Allergy Solutions Inc. also sells mattress encasements, as do Protect-A-Bed and National Allergy Supply’s Bedcare line. The Harvard School of Public Health says any encasement that is used for protection from the dust mite is sufficient for much larger bed bugs.

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Fight Bed Bugs with Protect-A-Bed

Combining comfort with eco-friendliness is certainly one of the battle cries that EcoMemory Foam is thinking off when Anatomic Global Inc. was trying to develop a bed product to suit both worlds. Apparently, the quality of bedding today goes way beyond design and price. It also requires the touch of eco-friendliness and now, people can have the choice to own one in Las Vegas.

Developed by founder David Farley with 20 years of experience in medical industry sleep systems, EcoMemoryFoam has taken the best of memory foam technology and improved on it. Using open cell technology, they have created a memory foam mattress that breathes and helps you sleep cooler. EcoMemoryFoam also utilizes the patent-pending Neutral Posture Support System, which is scientifically designed with seven support zones to relieve the stress on your back muscles and refresh the body. EcoMemoryFoam is manufactured in the United States, and the company can ship anywhere within 48 hours, which allows retailers to avoid keeping inventory.

EcoMemoryFoam mattresses utilize the patent-pending Neutral Posture Support System, which is scientifically designed with seven support zones to relieve stress and refresh the body. Patented zero-emissions technology is used to create the coolest-temperature, most supportive memory foam beds available.

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Get Your EcoMemory Foam in Las Vegas!

As far as comfort in chairs or sofas is concerned, sitting on them could really be something worthwhile if they had the lumpy cushions that make it entirely cozy each time we get the chance to sit down. This is best exemplified by Madam Ruben, employing a thick and comfy mattress like foam cushion that make them ideal and tempting to sit in due to their unique manner of design.

The Madam Rubens chairs, currently on display at the Please Do Not Sit exhibit at the Tools Gallery in Paris (until July 26, 2008) are some of the most voluptuous chairs and stools you’re likely to see. Willems not only had the vision for these chair designs, marrying the mattress forms to the curvaceous legs and backs of antique furniture, but he created a process for recycling mattresses, removing the wires and other hardware embedded in the mattress.

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Voluptuous Madam Ruben Chairs from Mattresses

The luxury in bedding is back. After a hiatus, the Aireloom is a luxury mattress carried by SlumberWorld is making a comeback to become one of the options that people are looking for today as far as putting an exclamation point towards being able to get that much overdue sleep that people need today.

If you talk about this mattress, it may be seen as a product line made for the selected. The prices may be steep but the quality is something to consider. For people who spend direly on other things such as luxury cars and expensive clothing, go back and evaluate how you sleep and where you should sleep. That way, you will understand why the Aireloom is an obvious brand for quality, handmade especially for you.

Buying a luxury mattress might be compared to buying a car, and calls for meticulous attention to detail because of the domino effect of defects.

“Mattresses are a blind item in that you really don’t know what’s inside, so you rely on a salesperson to help fit you with your needs,” Kluft said. “If they don’t believe in a product, it won’t get shown. They’re our toughest critics.”

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The Aireloom Mattress is Back!

Need efficiency setting up your home office?  We recommend the desk-in-a-box, sorta simliar to mattresses-in-a-box at bedzine.

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At a glance, it appears that their “Out-of-Box” workstation incorporates 2 desks, a decent amount of desktop real estate and a ton of storage space into a fairly compact design that can easily be wheeled from one room to another. The design is still very much a work in progress, but the $2350 build price suggests that they will become commercially available.

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Desk-in-a-Box!

The GRIMEN Bed Frame is the latest addition to IKEA US. The bed retails for $399 and has adjustable bedsides which allow the use of mattresses of different heights. The bed can be coordinated with furniture in the MALM series. The bed has a HAMAR midbeam.

The GRIMEN Bed Frame

The Space Shuttle Bunk Bed is truly out of this world! The bed can moonlight as a bunk bed, bed / loft or indoor playhouse. The children’s shuttle bed has room for two twin-sized mattresses (one up and one down), there is a lot of room for your kids and their guests.

The children’s shuttle bed is designed to sit against your bedroom wall. If you want to access both sides and add an additional wing, add $175. You choose the direction it faces in your room.

The Space Shuttle Bunk Bed

The Chocolate 100% Cotton 200TC Bed Sheet Set from Beyond Bedding looks sinful and decadent. These 100% cotton sheets from Miller Home Fashions have a 200-thread count and fit mattresses up to 18″ deep. Queen and King sheet sets include one fitted sheet, one flat sheet and two pillowcases.

The Chocolate 100% Cotton 200TC Bed Sheet Set

Here is another Chair bed from IKEA which makes me wonder if Sofabeds are kind of passé these days? The IKEA PS LÖVÅS is retailing for $219.00 and comes equipped with casters, which make the sofa easy to move when cleaning or re-arranging the furniture. It easily converts into a bed and one can choose from three different mattresses and a variety of covers. By the way, is it me or does this look like a hospital bed?

IKEA PS LÖVÅS Chair Bed

A New Mattress Does a Body Good

The survey also reveals that respondents who report getting seven to eight hours of sleep each night (7.5 hours is optimal) are more likely to be sleeping on a newer mattress (one to four years old).

Additionally, findings reveal that those sleeping on a newer mattress are significantly more likely to engage in physical activities than those who sleep on older mattresses:

Activity: Running 59% (mattress one – four years old), 6% (older mattress)

Activity: Weights 54% (mattress one – four years old), 8% (older mattress)

Activity: Aerobics 57% (mattress one – four years old), 9% (older mattress)

The same survey found that 81 percent of Americans report waking up with back, neck or shoulder pain in the past year, with nearly half (46 percent) of respondents reporting that they frequently (at least a few times a month) wake up with these types of pain that limit their physical performance.

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New Mattresses are Good for Your Body

Sleeping on this giant 6′ by 7′ Inflatable Toast Mattress is likely to make you dream that you are a pad of butter and that you are floating down a river of freshly brewed coffee.

Using depths of imagination and innovation we haven’t seen since WWII, some insane but brilliant genius has envisioned a world where they asked “dammit, why can’t you sleep on toast?” Well, today, this insane but brilliant plan has reached fruition with the Inflatable Toast Mattress.

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Inflatable Toast Mattresses

If you are always on the road and feel iffy about sleeping on different mattresses all the time then do check out the Handy Suitcase Mattress. A brainchild of Softline, it’s retailing for $98 at the Apt Website. A practical “suitcase mattress” for guests to sleep on and children to play on. Easy to store, easy to bring along and easy to unfold.

Handy Suitcase Mattress

The Chocolate Storage Platform Bed gets it name because of its trendy chocolate finish and its storage capabilities. The bed comes equipped with profiled drawers edges for easy handling and features 2 large drawers, 30″ x 19″, one on each side. It also includes metal full extension drawer glides. And supports 39″/54″/60″ mattresses. Order it online for $279.99.

The Chocolate Storage Platform Bed

This contemporary and modern designed IKEA MALM bed frame is certain to fit into any bedroom theme design. Available in 5 finishes, this bed frame comes in Full/Double, King or Queen support to mattresses that people look for today.

Price: $179.00

Product dimensions

Length: 83 7/8 “

Width: 66 1/2 “

Footboard height: 11 3/4 “

Headboard height: 30 3/8 “

Mattress length: 79 1/2 “

Mattress width: 59 7/8 “

Length: 213 cm

Width: 169 cm

Footboard height: 30 cm

Headboard height: 77 cm

Mattress length: 202 cm

Mattress width: 152 cm

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IKEA MALM Bed Frames

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Sleep Number Bed 6000 and 7000 Released

Metrofarm has some great beds in their catalogue and we are partial to Walnut veneered bed. The bed design is reminiscent of a giant lounge chair and it comes in two versions. One opens to one side or and the second version opens to two sides. The angle at the headrest allows you to go into an optimal chill position. The beds have custom made extra long mattresses.

Walnut Veneered Bed.

Price: $319.00

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Bay Jacobsen Memory Foam Mattress Topper

The Malm Bed is the latest addition to the IKEA website. The simple bed has adjustable bedsides which allows the use of mattresses of different thicknesses. The HAMAR midbeam keeps your mattress in place and secures the cross-braces. It is included in the price, but is packaged separately.

IKEA Malm Bed

Don’t just rely on sleep systems or bed mattresses that claim to be good for the body. Read more on what they have to offer and then make a choice on a wise sleeping investment for you.

The BodyZone Memory Foam Sleep System is made of a combination of next-generation memory foam over an energy absorbing polyurethane base that works to give you the pressure-relieving, customized comfort and support that your body needs … exactly where you need it. The BodyZone memory foam mattress allows you to achieve a deeper, more restful sleep by molding to your body and eliminating the pressure-points and motion transfer common in most innerspring mattresses.

Source: LivinginComfort

Bodyzone Memory Foam Sleep Systems