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This is the fourth post in the series of six articles that chronicle the steps we followed to build our own polyurethane and latex foam bed. See the links (right) for earlier posts.
Advantages of a Home-Made Foam Mattress Bed
- Building the bed yourself makes it much less expensive than a comparable brand-name latex or memory foam bed, and just as comfortable. In fact, unless you bought the top-of-the-line, name brand bed, your DIY bed is probably much higher quality.
- Overall, foam beds are more supportive than innerspring mattresses and don't exhibit the pressure points that some innerspring mattresses do. Have you noticed that most innerspring mattresses have a so-called "pillow-top"? The pillow top is essentially a thin piece of latex or urethane foam. This thin layer of foam is put there to cover the hard spots that are inherent in innerspring designs. Buy your own "topper" and get a much better piece of foam for much less money.
- Foam beds are much easier to move from room to room than a conventional mattress/box-spring, especially when going up or down a narrow staircase, because the beds can be taken apart and moved as individual pieces of relatively flexible foam pieces.
- The beds can be customized/adjusted to firmness by changing the position of individual foam layers in the stack.
If you have questions about our project or comments about this article please contact us through our website LivingWithBugs or leave a comment below.
