When we purchase a luxury mattress, we don’t think of how it will intertwine with our lives enough to be part of our history. It could be the first item you purchase to begin furnishing your new home or the first big purchase you consider with your significant other. Mattresses have played an important role in our history, but they wouldn’t have gotten there without its own history.

The History of the Luxury Mattress

Most people don’t know how long mattresses have been in existence. Its history begins in 3600 B.C. and since then the design of the luxury mattress has changed significantly.

3600 B.C. Persians made the first water beds out of goatskins and filled them with water.

3400 B.C. Egyptians slept on palm boughs piled in the corners of their homes.

200 B.C. Romans slept on bags of cloth stuffed with reeds, hay, or wool. The wealthy usually slept on feather stuffing which could be considered the first luxury mattresses.

1400s Mattresses were made out of pea shucks, straw or sometimes feathers, stuffed into coarse ticks, and covered with velvets, brocades or silks.

1500-1700 Mattresses were stuffed with straw or down feathers and placed on top of a bed consisting of a timber frame with the support of rope or leather.

Early 18th century Mattresses are filled with cotton or wool

Mid 18th century: Mattress covers are made of quality linen or cotton. The mattress box is shaped or bordered with fillings of natural fibers, such as coconut fiber, cotton, wool, and horsehair. The mattress is buttoned to fasten the stuffing to the cover and the edges are stitched.

Late 19th century: The box spring mattress is invented.

1930s: Innerspring mattresses and upholstered foundations become popular along with artificial fillers. Enclosed coil spring mattresses also have their springs sewn into linked fabrics.

1950s: Foam rubber mattresses and pillows become available for purchase.

1960s: The waterbed is introduced and becomes a popular luxury mattress choice alongside adjustable beds.

1980s: Air mattresses composed of vulcanized rubber or vinyl are introduced.

2000′s: Multitudes of sleeping options and features become available. From air to water luxury mattresses, there is a type to fit everyone’s needs. That’s where we come in!

Get Your Luxury Mattress Today!

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of mattresses from innerspring, water and latex luxury available on the market today. Having been in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know which type of mattress will fit your lifestyle. We are here to satisfy your need for quality sleep with our quality mattresses. Contact us today for a sleep consultation!

As we all know sleep is a fundamental part of our lives, but did you know that your sleep position impacts your overall rest? Your sleep position can be the source of certain issues, for instance, lack of energy in the morning, aches and pains, snoring and even wrinkles. Research has shown that on your back is the best sleep position because it helps avoid neck and back pain, reduces acid reflux and minimizes wrinkles.

Time to Start Sleeping on Your Back

Sleeping on your back aligns the neck and spine to ensure that there are no extra curves in your back while sleeping on your luxury mattress. The worst sleep position is lying on your stomach. This is because it can produce snoring and put pressure on your joints and muscles, irritating nerves that can lead to pain and numbness.

What Your Sleep Position Says About You

Interestingly, sleep positions can indicate your personality type in addition to determining how well you’ll sleep. Professor Chris Idzkowski has studied six of the most common sleep positions and has concluded that each position (fetus, log, yearner, soldier, freefall and starfish) is linked to a specific type of personality.

• Fetus (curled up with your knees to your chest) – This sleep position suggests that you are tough-skinned, sensitive at heart, emotional, and shy at first but develop a comfort zone rather quickly.

• Log (on your side with your hands against your side)– This sleep position suggests that you are a social and easygoing person, very trusting of strangers and sometimes gullible.

• Yearner (on your side with arms stretched out in front of you) – This sleep position suggests that you have an open nature, tend to be suspicious and are slow to make up your mind.

• Soldier (on your back with your hands against your side) – This sleep position suggests that you are sometimes quiet and reserved, and tend to set high standards for yourself and others.

• Freefall (on your stomach with arms sprawled out on pillow) – This sleep position suggests that you are outgoing and brash, but also fearless and thin-skinned. You are not fond of criticism or extreme situations.

• Starfish (on your back with arms sprawled out on pillow) – This sleep position suggests you are good at making friends, are an excellent listener, offer help when necessary and don’t like to be the center of attention.

We spend most of our time sleeping in one of these positions. Whether it’s the best or the worst sleep position, a luxury mattress can be sure to give you that good night’s rest you’ve been waiting for!

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water and latex mattresses available on the market today. Having been in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know that getting a good night’s sleep is important. We are here to satisfy your need for quality sleep with our quality mattresses. Contact us today for a sleep consultation!

Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism translated as “seize the day”. With our Carpe Diem mattresses we want you to seize the night! At Brickell Mattress, we know how important a good night’s sleep is, and that’s why we provide only the best luxury mattresses, like the Carpe Diem.

The Founding of Carpe Diem Beds

Carpe Diem Beds was founded by a chiropractor named Börje Thuleskär. His goal was to establish a luxury mattress that alleviated pressure points, offered customized support and reduced motion transfer better than an ordinary mattress. The process of finding the right configuration of materials, pressure mapping and comfort testing took over two years to complete. Once finished, they patented their techniques and quickly became the highest rating bed in Sweden.

Within a Carpe Diem

This specific brand of luxury mattress is upholstered with natural materials, such as New Zealand wool and organic cotton, and has an adopted design by Pelle Vävare. These materials keep the bed breathable and cool to sleep on. In addition, the Scandinavian and European Union environmental certifications – SWAN and Oeko Tex – have certified that these beds contain no harmful materials and that the environment is not harmed by their production.

Where Can You Find a Carpe Diem?

The popularity of the beds has grown to almost every European country and it has made its way to the U.S. From the beginning, Carpe Diem Beds has focused on providing the correct level of support while relieving pressure points and Brickell Mattress is continuing their mission here in South Florida.

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water, and latex mattresses available on the market today. Having been in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for when selecting a mattress. We are here to satisfy your need for quality sleep with our quality mattresses. Contact us today for a sleep consultation!

Everyone knows that a good night’s sleep is important, but not everyone knows the specifics as to why. Sleeping well improves your mood, increases mental clarity and aids in weight loss. Most adults usually tend to sleep 63 percent of the recommended eight hours and don’t receive the maximum benefits of a full night’s rest.

Sleep Boosts Brainpower

During the REM (rapid eye movement) cycle, your brain works to solve problems by boosting creative thinking— most likely by establishing new communication pathways in the brain. Ultimately, a good night’s sleep will allow your brain to think peacefully.

Sleep Improves Performance

A good night’s sleep doesn’t just provide you with a clear head and better focus; it also is essential in terms of performance. A study was conducted on basketball players at Stanford University that concluded that a good night’s sleep improved speed and free throw accuracy, reaction time off the starting blocks and kick strokes by .51 seconds.

Sleep Aids Weight Loss

Did you know that going to bed early could help you control your appetite? Those who go to bed later tend to eat more calories after 8 p.m. than those who went to be earlier. This is because when you’re tired, ghrelin (the hormone that regulates hunger) rises while leptin (the hormone that regulates satiety) decreases.

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water, and latex mattresses available on the market today. Having been in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for when selecting a mattress. We are here to satisfy your need for quality sleep with our quality mattresses. Contact us today for a sleep consultation!

Getting a good night’s sleep is a win in itself but sleeping well year round is an accomplishment. With a luxury mattress it makes it all the more easier and possible to achieve it, however it isn’t the only determinant of how well you sleep.

As seasons change, so does the weather. Depending on how it is outside, your sleeping habits may need a little assistance adjusting to help you sleep better at night. Here are some tips, for each season, to help you sleep your best and feel great all year.

Fall

To get back into the routine after an eventful summer, it’s time to prepare for the rest of the year. Fall is a great time of year to analyze not only your sleeping arrangements but your potential guests as well. Is it time to buy or replace your luxury mattress?

Winter

Winter is the coldest season of the year and the goal is to keep as warm as possible. You can purchase a Chilipad and heat up your bed all winter long. With a luxury mattress and the right luxury bedding accessories you can sleep great any time of the year, especially in winter.

Spring

Spring is the time of year for deep cleaning. Eliminating any dust or debris will alleviate your allergies and keep you from experiencing a sleepless night. One thing to consider is purchasing a mattress pad to protect that mattress from any stains, dust mites and other debris.

Summer

Summer, unlike winter, is the warmest time of the year. However, similar to winter, purchasing a Chilipad can cool your bed during those hot, summer nights (you can even alter the temperature for each side of the bed).

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water, and latex mattresses available on the market today. After being in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for in a mattress. We are here to fill your need for quality sleep. Contact us for a sleep consultation today.

Once you have purchased your luxury mattress, you will want to ensure that it stays in the best condition possible! Below are three, simple mattress care tips and three resulting benefits to help you prolong the life of your luxury mattress:

1. If you select to sleep on a King or Queen sized mattress, your bed frame must have a center leg to support the middle.

2. We recommend that your mattress be rotated once a year to ensure balance and long-term sustainability, starting with an initial rotation after six months.

3. If your mattress becomes soiled, we recommend that you use a small amount of antibacterial soap and a warm damp sponge to clean it.

In following these three tips, you will enjoy the following benefits maintaining your luxury mattress has to offer:

1. Our luxury mattresses will mold and contour to your body shape and sleeping positions while relaxing pressure points usually experienced on inexpensive beds.

2. Luxury mattresses have more cushioning than inexpensive beds. The extra cushioning allows for maximum performance and balanced support.

3. Our luxury mattresses are designed to last for more than the average of 8 to 10 years with normal usage – it will last longer if maintained!

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water and latex mattresses available on the market today. After being in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for and what’s important to you when selecting a mattress. We are here to satisfy your need for quality sleep with our quality mattresses. Contact us today for a sleep consultation!

In Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Princess and the Pea, one of the morals is: the quality of what you sleep on matters just as much as the quality of your sleep. In fact, when sleeping, our body is compressed by gravity in a different way than when we’re standing. We need to be fully supported by the luxury mattress and its supporting structures. Therefore, the luxury mattress has been called an “anti-gravity machine” that makes it achievable to maintain the natural contour of the spine when sleeping.

We spend around one-third of our life lying on mattresses and about half of all Americans experience occasional sleep difficulties. Despite these known facts, there has been little scientific study about mattress design. A poor mattress design can produce insufficient body support, which could cause muscle discomfort and back pain. So what features indicate a good mattress? Does the firmness or softness matter? Is a mattress even that important?

Recent Mattress Study

In a recent study of mattress ergonomics, researchers had 12 female participants lie on an incompressible wooden surface and on various other mattresses to compare their comfort levels. All of the mattresses were judged as significantly more comfortable than the wooden surface, however there were no significant differences between mattress types. Measures of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle body contact pressures showed few significant differences and no significant associations between measures and the comfort ratings.

A study on sleep quality and bed firmness indicated that 4 of 9 male subjects slept significantly better on a softer mattress, while 2 slept better on a firmer mattresses. The greatest distinction in sleep quality occurred when changing from the subject’s own mattress to one of the test mattresses. The researchers concluded that it may take several days to adapt to a new sleep surface.

Guidelines for Selecting a Mattress

What should you look for in a mattress? Brickell Mattress provides some guidelines for choosing your mattress.

Mattress Selection:

• • Designed to conform to the spine’s natural curves and to keep the spine in alignment when lying down.
  • Designed to allocate pressure evenly across the body to help circulation, decrease body movement and enhance sleep quality.
  • Designed to reduce the transfer of movement from one sleeping partner to the other.
  • Designed with perimeter edge support.

Keep in mind that you’ll spend around 24 years of your life sleeping, so take the time to choose the best sleep system (i.e., mattress, support structure, pillows, and sheets) to will improve your sleep and your quality of life.

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water and latex mattresses available on the market today. After being in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for in a mattress. We are here to fill your need for quality sleep, contact us today for a sleep consultation.

You may not consider your mattress as being one of the most important things you own, but actually it is. We spend over a third of our time sleeping and with the right mattress we will never lose a minute of it again.

There are numerous mattress options out there—sprung and padded. At the high end of the spectrum, locally carried at Brickell Mattress, is the Vi-Spring mattress in Miami. It is a hand-tied mattress consisting of 100 percent Shetland wool and exclusively handcrafted in England.

What Makes Vi-Spring Different

“Vi-Spring” comes from the Roman numeral 6, VI, because each spring coil makes six turns, giving the body optimum support and enough flex to react to shifting movement during sleep. They are one of the few bed makers to manufacture their own springs. Their hand-tied springs are bound together with stitching that has a greater flexibility than machine-assembled springs. Vi-Spring sews their springs into individual fabric pockets – which are then laid in rows and stitched together. Each row is independent, so when the springs conform to one person’s movement they won’t affect the person sleeping next to them.

One aspect that makes Vi-Spring’s mattresses unique is their side stitching. Unlike machine-manufactured mattresses, Vi-Spring doesn’t need a metal structure, because skilled craftsmen side stitch the padded wool sides to the outside three rows of springs by hand. The tension of the twine keeps the mattress supported and in a perfect square.

Vi-Spring also protects the environment and supports the local industry, using 100 percent British wool and 100 percent natural fibers (wool, cotton, horsehair and cashmere) with no added chemicals. The wool acts as a natural “wicking” fiber, in a way that synthetic fibers can’t, keeping you warm in winter and cool in summer.

In 2012, Vi-Spring received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, a very prestigious award in the United Kingdom and authentication to the timeless quality and value of their products and technique.

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, air, water and latex mattresses available on the market today. After being in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for in a mattress. We are here to fill your need for quality sleep, contact us today for a sleep consultation at http://www.brickellmattress.com/

We have all experienced sleepless nights full of tossing and turning only to wake up completely exhausted. Did you know though that sleeping on the right luxury mattress could help alleviate these problems? A recent study showed that mattresses really do matter when it comes to feeling fully rested.

A four-year study conducted by Research Triangle International and Drs. Andy Krystal and Jack Edinger from Duke University, observed how different support levels of mattresses effected sleep, pain and daytime performance. Over 16,000 nights of sleep were evaluated for 128 participants, making this one of the largest studies ever completed on how mattresses impact sleep.

Previous Studies On Luxury Mattresses And Sleep

Only a few studies have observed the effects mattresses have on sleep. Previous surveys only looked at a small number of participants and mattresses. The conclusion of these small sample size studies was that “medium-firm” mattresses are the best for sleep. Two errors associated with this were: no recognizable definition for what a “medium-firm” mattress feels like and there were participants who slept well on other mattresses.

Another study concluded that mattresses had no impact on sleep at all. This study was considered a poor frame of reference because their small sample size only consisted of college students (who sleep just about anywhere!).

Using A Luxury Mattress Will Make A Difference

The study by Krystal and Edinger overcame these previous limitations by examining a large sample size of participants (128), a large assortment of different support level mattresses (seven) and more nights spent sleeping on each mattress (four weeks). After assessing over 16,000 nights of sleep, it was evident that even the smallest difference in mattress support (soft, medium, firm) correlated with changes in sleep.

At Brickell Mattress, we offer the finest selection of innerspring, water, and latex mattresses available on the market today. After being in the bedding industry for over 8 years, we know what you’re looking for in a mattress. We are here to fill your need for quality sleep, contact us today for a sleep consultation at http://www.brickellmattress.com/

Like so many products and services in our world today, you tend to get what you pay for. When it comes to a cheap Sealy or Serta mattress, or any other bargain bed, this is definitely the case. When your buy a bargain mattress not only are your cheating yourself and your partner out of a good night’s sleep but you are also paying for a mattress that won’t last you more than a couple of years. When it comes to buying a mattress, it truly does pay to go the extra mile. There happens to be a top tier category of beds known as the Ultra-Luxury that all offer amazing quality, comfort, and sleep, and can last 3x longer than even the nicest mattress you can find in the department store. This saves you money because the longer the mattress lasts the more money you in your pocket that you don’t spend on a cheap mattress year after year.

The two bed makers in particular that are at the top of the Ultra-Luxury category are Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring. These mattress companies truly represent the best mattresses in the world, and each have 100 years of European bed making heritage to back it up. When each of these beds is made, they are meticulously handcrafted with the sole purpose in mind to provide you with the world’s finest comfort, luxury, elegance, and durability. They are not made in a big factory by machines with the purpose to be cheap, they are made the right way by skilled craftsman who take hours upon hours ensuring every little facet of each bed is as perfect as the last, and that is why these beds are so special, and also why they last so long.

What is in a Carpe Diem or a Vi-Spring that you won’t find in a Sealy or a Serta? Whereas American bed companies make their mattresses with the cheapest synthetic materials they can find, like polyurethane, polyester, and polyethylene, Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring make a point to produce beds that are as natural as possible. This means they use many natural and exotic yet sensible materials to make beds that are truly natural masterpieces. Additionally, innerspring mattresses of cheaper quality are only built to handle body mass, not the body’s pressure points including the critical areas of the shoulders and hips. When these areas are neglected on a cheaper mattress it can cause added pressure and lead to back, shoulder, or hip discomfort. However, on a Vi-Spring or Carpe Diem an innovative handmade pocketed coil design is used that not only supports the body but provides legendary pressure relief and comfort that is absolutely unmatched and not found anywhere in a Sealy or a Serta.

It truly pays to go the extra mile and buy an Ultra-Luxury mattress. Not only will you attain a profoundly amazing sleep experience, but you will be getting a mattress that will be incredibly durable from the quality handmade process through which it came. Even better, these brands start at prices anyone can afford. Brickell Mattress can even finance an ultra-luxury mattress for $2 a day. For more info go to www.brickellmattress.com or call 305-326-4000 to talk to a sleep professional today! Visit our store or give us a call to arrange a FREE TRIP TO MIAMI to see these Ultra-Luxury beds. You having nothing to lose, and a whole lot of sleep to gain.