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Mattress Firmness Guide

How to choose the right mattress firmness for you

Struggling to decide on a mattress tension? It’s an important decision. Your mattress tension = the firmness of your mattress.

To help you out we’ve called on our sleep experts to guide you through our firmness chart, natural fibre vs. pocket sprung, and some of their top tips for selecting your mattress.

Sleep Expert Tip.

If you are planning on switching from a pocket sprung mattress to one of our Natural Fibre range, please consider that they are firmer and less bouncy than a traditional spring core mattress.

No less comfortable of course, but a different feel. Always best to try in one of our showrooms if possible, or call us to discuss your choice.

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Hand cast in Cornwall

Based in Par near St Austell, The Cornish Bed Company is one of the last foundries to hand cast traditional iron, brass and nickel beds.

Victorian knuckle joints

All beds are made with the cast knuckle fixings used on original Victorian beds, hand cast and poured using traditional gravity casting techniques.