We often take our sleep and the benefits that go along with it for granted, when really sleep is an essential activity to not only our physical health but our mental health as well. A better sleep can make such a difference in our lives, a fact that many don’t realize. Here are ten tips for a better sleep, resulting ultimately in a healthier, happier life.

Prioritize Sleep

Sleep is really the next healthiest thing you can do for your body everyday besides eating healthy and exercising. The more importance you assign to your sleep, the more of a health benefit you will receive.

Find Your Balance

Not all of us need the same amount of sleep. Eight hours may be good for some and not enough for others. Work out the amount of sleep that is the best for you.

Keep a Regular Routine

Our bodies, when put into a sleep routine, are programmed to a rhythm of activity and inactivity. The more regular you are in your sleep patterns, the better the body will adapt to that particular pattern, leading to a deeper, more beneficial and more restorative state of sleep.

You Need Space

Invest in the largest bed possible you room can accommodate so that you can better allow yourself to have a more luxurious, undisturbed sleep.

Time in the Sun

Your body reacts to natural light waking you, and does the same for when it gets dark, prompting sleepiness and assisting your natural sleep routine. Make sure you get a reasonable amount of time outside each day.

Be Active

The more active and engaged we are during the day, the better we sleep at night. Make sure you partake in some amount of physical or mental exercise each day to get the most out of your sleep.

Ease Yourself into Bed

Try to avoid late night stimulation from caffeine, alcohol, or nicotine before going to bed. These stimuli, closer to bedtime, may knock your body off of its natural sleep schedule, causing you to lie awake or avoid a deeper sleep.

Relax Your Body and Mind

Before going to bed it is important you prepare yourself for sleep. Calming activities that slow your breathing and heart rate down, like reading a book or doing a word puzzle, are excellent for preparing you for bed. Find a routine that works best for you.

Right Atmosphere

Ensure that you are in a dark and quiet environment that is the ideal temperature for your sleep. This will not only help you fall asleep but will help you stay asleep, again promoting a deeper and more restorative sleep.

Invest in a Quality Bed

This is one of the most important tips for a better sleep. So many of us go out and buy a cheap bargain mattress that has bad support and hardly any pressure relief, a ticket for tossing and turning and excessive back pain. A good quality bed is the key to a good night’s rest, so make sure that you invest in a bed that is truly comfortable and provides the right feel and support for your particular figure. It is important that you sleep on a bed that is personalized to you. Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring are both excellent luxury bed makers that build beds geared to provide the best sleep possible. These beds are designed to be fit to you, and exhibit the most quality and comfort of any other bed makers in the Ultra-Luxury category.

There is no better place to find the unique and luxurious bed you are looking for than Brickell Mattress, a premium mattress provider centrally located in the heart of Miami Florida. In store or online you can find the finest selection of air beds, adjustable beds, latex beds, and Ultra-Luxury beds. No other store in Florida can provide the breadth of selection from high quality Select Foam to the Ultra-Luxury mattresses of Vi-Spring and Carpe Diem.

Brickell Mattress is truly unlike any mattress store you have experienced. With an inviting and open feel, the store presents its mattresses in a calm stress-free environment, absent of the pressure from hassling salesmen. The interior was designed to present the beds as they would be seen in the home, a refreshing experience from the bland white sea of beds in your traditional department store. The store is almost reminiscent of an art gallery, presenting the beds amongst a façade of elegance and flair. The idea of this environment is to give you time to try out the beds, talk with the sleep experts, and collaborate to find a bed that will truly fit you the best based on your personal preference and your body type. The true end-goal is to find you the best sleep you have ever had.

Carrying both the Ultra-Luxury brands of Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring, Brickell mattress provides a selection of indisputably the two best mattress brands in the world. These brands represent simply the best in innerspring comfort, quality, elegance, durability, and the use of natural materials. It is a must that you come in and experience these beds for yourself; they are truly life-changing. Brickell mattress also carries 100% natural latex beds for those who want a bed that will be both good for them and the environment. Adjustable beds, water beds, and air beds are also available, representing some of the best brands you can find anywhere.

Brickell Mattress is located at 1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33129, come in today and start your one of a kind mattress experience. For more information go to www.brickellmattress.com or call 305-326-4000 to talk to a sleep professional who will guide you every step of the way. Come to Brickell Mattress, and start sleeping like you never have before.

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Brickell Mattress has teamed with Venue Magazine, (www.venuemagazine.com) to raise awareness for healthy sleep!  Venue Magazine is the brainchild of Alex Echevarria, the best Real Housewife of Miami.  Venue magazine interviews prominent Miami professionals, recaps outstanding local events, and explores amazing new products.

Venue Magazine will be hosting Brickell Mattress’s Grand Opening Party near the End of October.  Many of Miami’s prominent professionals and celebrities will be in attendance- keep reading this blog for an update on the exact date!

We’re very excited to be working with Venue Magazine and to provide all of their readers with the best sleep possible!  Turn to page 62 in the September-October 2011 edition to see our Ad.

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So you’re part of the new, hip neighborhood called Midtown Miami.  Chances are, you need a mattress for your new apartment in Midtown 2 or Midtown 4.  You could go to ZzzMattress down the street and bore yourself to sleep, or you could even go into West Elm and pay an arm-and-a-leg for some Chinese piece of bedroom furniture.  Sound about right?  Well, help is on the way as a new mattress store as fun and exciting as Midtown Miami has opened just a short drive away.  Worried about lugging the mattress back to your spot?  Don’t!  We’ve got free delivery and in-home installation.

Your art here!

Art and Beds- Who Knew?

Brickell Mattress has embraced Midtown’s nearby art district by dedicating an entire wall to a local Miami artist each month.  Walk into our store and you can tell we’re different- you’ll see huge prints of cool Miami buildings, all available for sale.   The featured local Miami artist will have his own section that will be seen by thousands of store goers each month! If you’re a budding local Miami artist and would like a place to hang your work completely free, please drop us a line and let us know.   If you’re a store visitor, come see some modern and contemporary art while sipping a complimentary crisp chardonnay.

Better miami mattresses at Affordable Midtown Prices

Besides the huge influx of corporate stores Midtown has experienced in the last few years, there is still a considerable amount of eclectic, cool stores found only in the Midtown area.  You can find quality products at working-man prices.   We try to hold the same philosophy at our store.  Sure you can find Legget and Platt adjustables,

4.9 miles away from Midtown – all highway driving.

and other name-brands; but we also have incredible and affordable new brands such as Select Foam, Select Water, and Select Air.  Looking to spend $700 to just get a mattress? –We have that.  Looking to pimp out your pad and spend $8000 on a top-of-the-line bed?- We have that too.  Here at Brickell Mattress, we consider ourselves a no-frills organization, meaning you get what you want, at the price you want.

Call Us Today 305-326-4000

Or Visit Us at 1030 SW 8^th St Miami, FL 33130

The Awful Truth – An Insiders View of the Miami Mattress Industry

Miami is an incredibly vibrant city growing at an astonishing rate.  With this growth, these people need to know where to find beds.  After living in the Miami area for over 6 years (Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, South Miami, and now Brickell), I’ve learned a thing or two about the Miami mattress industry.  This blog is intended to give you a brief understanding of some tricks and malpractices of local Miami mattress retailers, and the steps Brickell Mattress have taken to address them.

Miami Mattress Tricks and Out-Dated Business Practices Exposed!

1. The mattress with the highest profit margin will be promoted to you as the best.

Salesman are taught in the Miami mattress industry to sell you the “best” bed, when, in actuality, it is the bed the retailer makes the most money on.  Do your due diligence!  Read what the mattress is composed of and decide for yourself.

Does this really help you find the best bed?

2. Terrible Presentation and Out-Dated Mattress Collections

Let’s face it, mattresses are about as exciting to buy as used cars….but it shouldn’t be that way!  Miami mattress retailers such as zzzmattress, mattress firm, and mattress giant pack as many beds as they can into their stores, barrage you with sales signs and numbers at every corner,and light the store with anxiety-inducing fluorescent lighting.

To top it off, many of these retailers promote last year’s mattress lineup from the 3 S’s (Serta, Sealy, Simmons), as this year’s mattress collection.  Why do they do this?  They know that the customer really won’t be able to tell the difference and need to get rid of their excess inventory.

3. The Customer is Not Always First

I hate to say it because I’ve seen it, but some Miami mattress retailers will train someone for a week and then throw him/her out on the sales floor.  Do you want to be hassled by a pushy, unskilled salesman for a few hours while considering to invest thousands of dollars in a purchase?—I sure don’t.

Mattress lineups should be arranged in a layout convenient to the customer (segregated by firmness, type of mattress, price).  Unfortunately, more often than not, Miami mattress retailers have jumbled, jig-saw-puzzle store floors.

4. Owners are as Old as Dinosaurs

There’s a reason why marketing in the Miami mattress industry hasn’t changed in say…..50 years- owners are old!  The sheep-jumping-over the fence, free shipping marketing strategies Miami mattress stores use are about inventive as a rock. The names of some mattress products I’ve seen are reminiscent of the 1950s: “Go-go gadget Sleep Massager!” We’re in the 2000s, it’s time for mattress companies to catch up with the times.

Brickell Mattress- New, Honest, Inventive

Brickell Mattress is owned by a group of young entrepreneurs aged 24 to 33.  We have the products and services to make every generation of consumer feel good. From the baby-boomers who are simply looking for honest, personal-tailored help to get them a better night’s sleep, to Generation X who want and expect service from a company up-to-date with modern day technology and social networking- Brickell Mattress works to serve all.

Now, we’re not perfect, but Brickell Mattress has attempted to address some aforementioned issues in the Miami mattress industry.  When people walk into our store we want them to instantly relax and feel at home.  Our collections of latex foam, airbeds, waterbeds, and adjustable beds are tastefully displayed amongst modern art. The store layout is designed to feel open, inviting, and convenient.  A sleep expert will greet you and ask if you’d like any help, but are trained to leave you alone if you don’t want it.  Each mattress is displayed with a “mattress menu”- easy-to-read material describing the composition of the bed. You are able to peruse this information at your leisure in our Free-Wifi Coffee lounge.  Ready to make a purchase?  Our fast checkout can get you an emailed receipt in under 2 minutes.  And for the crème-de la crème, Brickell Mattress offers the free VIP service of in-home installation.  Sorry Miami mattress retailers, there are new kids on the block.

Brickell Mattress

1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33130
305-326-4000

This Bed is in a Celebrity’s Home

Preferred Bed of Celebrities, Billionaires, Rockstars, Playboys

Nothing makes a statement like a circular, round mattress. Brickell Mattress, located at 1030 SW 8th Street in Miami, Florida, can even produce you one that rotates like in the movies. This is a must-have item for any successful bachelor. These are available in Latex Foam, and traditional innersprings.

Perhaps all you need is a rectangular mattress that is a little bit longer, like those recently ordered by a famous basketball player. Maybe you need one that is a little short for your RV or yacht. We can do all of this!!

All you need to do is determine what  shape you want (triangle, square, circle, parabola, etc). what the dimensions need to be, and finally what you want it made out of, and we will have it made for you in no time.

Call us For Advice 305.326.4000

You don’t even need to visit our showroom to order one. Simply call or email us for a quote.

All Sizes, Materials Available

Round Mattresses from $2000

Believe it or not, you can have a custom mattress built for a reasonable amount of money. While square/rectangular beds are easy because they are normally priced out at what the next biggest “Standard” size would be, even circular mattresses can be purchased for around $2000.

Of course, building custom platforms that rotate, or adding luxurious latex can increase the cost, but at the end of the day you do get what you pay for. Luckily, Brickell Mattress has eliminated the middlemen, so we’ve made it as low cost as possible. But then again, if you are looking for a customer mattress, price may not be a concern.

Many athletes are simply to large for a standard King bed. At only 80″ long, you can imagine how a 7′ basketball player might be uncomfortable. Luckily Brickell Mattress can produce all of the luxurious natural latex mattresses beloved by  “little people” in sizes large enough for even the biggest “big man”.

We’re Excited to help you find the solution to your sleep needs. One of our in-store designers will be more than happy to help you come up with the perfect bedroom defining mattress.

Call us Anytime  |  305-326-4000

Coral Gables is one of the finest cities in America, but until now there has never been a Mattress Store offering Natural Latex Mattresses in Coral Gables. Fortunately, we at Brickell Mattress™ decided to change that. Our Mattress Boutique, centrally located just outside of Coral Gables near Brickell, has Florida’s largest selection of Organic Talalay Latex Mattresses. In addition to Natura™- the #1 selling manufacturer of natural beds- Brickell Mattress also carries their store brand: Select Foam™.
Latex Beds have exploded in popularity for three reasons:

1. Latex Mattresses are resilient; this means that they have the bouncy feel of spring mattresses, which is good for people that want the health benefits of a specialty sleep mattress, with the traditional feel they are used to.
2. Latex is by far the most natural, “Green” material used in bedding today. Though not all latex is natural, all the latex used in beds at Brickell Mattress is 100% Natural, and is derived directly from the rubber tree. Because they are made with many yards of Wool and Cotton, our beds are considered completely Organic.

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Brickell Mattress

Location: 1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33130

Hours: Daily 1030 am to 730 pm

Coral gables finally has a Specialty Sleep store to serve its discerning citizens. Visit us any day of the week, or call to make an appointment. We have luxury latex mattresses priced from $999. Thank you for your time in reading this post, and SLEEP WELL.

Miami Beach Mattresses: No one sells luxury beds in South Beach! The BEST and closest location to the Beach is Brickell Mattress, a quick 10 minute drive over the bridge, a few blocks west of I-95 on SW 8^th Street. They are dedicated to Specialty Sleep, and have the finest products at the lowest prices.

Foam Beds, Organic  Latex Beds, Sleep Number Beds, Waterbeds, Adjustable Beds

Price: Beds range from $499 to $10,000

Trial Period: Yes, 90 Day Return Period

Warranty: Lifetime

Phone: 305-326-4000

Hours: Every Day 1030 to 7PM

Brands: Hästens Luxury Beds of Sweden, VISPRING Beds of England, Carpe Diem Beds, BioVital Anti-Static Sleep Systems, DownRight Bedding, TechnoGel, REVERIE® & SAVVY REST® Organic Latex Beds,  Latex & Adjustable beds, , Leggett & Platt, Softide/Ergomotion,

Reverie, Carpe Diem, Hastens, Select Water

In a recent study, 90% of people slept better on Specialty Sleep beds than traditional innerspring beds (specialty beds used in this study were latex).This is why Brickell Mattress like our adjustable airbeds, natural organic latex beds, Eco-friendly mattresses and more. Located just 15 minutes away from Miami Beach, Brickell Mattress, South Florida’s Only Specialty Sleep Store, the best alternative to a better sleep.We’ve approached sleep from a scientific angle, bringing in the worlds top sleep experts to design product offerings that are right for you. That, combined with steep vertical integration, allows us to offer the finest products at incredibly low everyday prices.

Don’t Forget about Green Factors; many people are buying items based on how healthy they are, how natural or organic they are, and the environmental impact of that product and it’s production process. We also take care to not waste paper, minimize packaging components, and eliminate waste at our firm, and are working on becoming LEED certified. The Green Revolution has been ignored by many bed companies, but not by ours. At Brickell Mattress you never have to worry about noxious smells, harmful chemicals, or any other foreign contaminants jeopardizing you or your loved one’s health at night. Call us for more details on green certification, etc.

Whether you’re a retiree on North Beach, or a jetsetter on South Point, Brickell Mattress has a product to meet your needs. The waterbeds have been incredibly popular for those wanting to make a statement, while the luxury adjustable beds have made doing everything (yes, even that) in bed better. Miami Beach customers like Brickell Mattress because we don’t haggle over prices, offer fast-free white glove delivery and set up, free removal of previous bedding, and we can even help with the relocation of existing furniture anywhere inside the home, or anywhere in Miami Beach.  For  example, when our people set up your bed they will put the sheets back on the bed, and fluff the pillows. Be prepared to enjoy the great World Class Service approach that you are about to receive at Brickell Mattress, Miami’s Best Sleep Destination!!

Call 24/7  305-326-4000 or visit us at 1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, 33130

Come to Brickell Mattress to try the newest talalay latex beds and natural mattresses.