Moving This Summer? Ten Steps to Lessen Stress
Millions of Americans are on the move this summer. If you’re among those taking that big leap to a new home, you can minimize moving-day chaos by organizing everything ahead of time and breaking it down into a series of manageable steps. Here is your 10-step game plan to help [...]
The Soft vs. Firm Mattress Debate: Finding Peace in the Split
May is Better Sleep Month — a good time to revisit the age-old soft vs. firm mattress dilemma. According to the Better Sleep Council, fifty-one percent of Americans said they prefer a “firm or very firm” mattress while 49 percent like their mattress “soft or very soft.” This means [...]
Hot News from High Point: Top 7 Trends in Furniture and Design for 2022
The world-famous High Point Market in North Carolina just wrapped up last week. Host to nearly 100,000 attendees from 100 countries, the show includes 12 million square feet of home furnishing showrooms spread over 180 buildings in High Point’s historic downtown. Former courthouses, movie theaters, post offices, and gas [...]
Bed Check: It’s National Sleep Awareness Week®
This is National Sleep Awareness Week®! Sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation, this special week is a good time to focus on strategies for getting a better night’s sleep. The best strategy? Build a good night's sleep from the bottom up – with what you are sleeping on! Think [...]
Bedroom Makeover: 10 Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep
According to a nationwide survey from the Better Sleep Council, one out of every four Americans are dissatisfied with the quality of their sleep. Fortunately, there are key things you can do to set yourself up for success. Experts call it good “sleep hygiene.” We call it a bedroom [...]
Trending for 2022: Biophilic Interior Design
Okay, you don’t have to plant a tree in your living room this year to be trendy! That said, the hot topic of 2022: “biophilic interior design.” Marrying science and design, biophilia is a human-centered, holistic approach to design, based on a simple concept: incorporating more elements of nature [...]
The History of Beds in Boxes
Almost all U.S. bedding manufacturers offer at least one boxed bed option. While this isn’t surprising now, the idea seemed quite radical nearly twenty years ago, when the first Bed-in-a-Box® prototype was developed. Back in 2004, a machine builder named Bill Bradley in Johnson City, Tennessee, wanted to engineer [...]