Shortly after moving in here we decided the main bedroom was large enough to accommodate a super-king bed and Nikki performed her usual miracle of online shopping, finding a sumptuous cherry wood suite including a sleigh bed. We bought the mattress online too, which unfortunately proved to be slightly less of a success. It's the first time I'd bought a bed without trying it out first. Turned out we'd chosen the wrong hardness.
By the time the problem became obvious it was too late to return the mattress, so for two years we've put up with it. In Nikki's case we're convinced it contributed to her frozen shoulder, and I've woken to more dead arms than you can shake a stick at (you certainly wouldn't be able to shake a stick with one. It's dead) as well as a shoulder that might qualify as frozen (or at least slushy) and various aches and pains.
Having spent a couple of nights enjoying the luxury of the master suite in Chesterfield (on two separate occasions), we determined to do something about our discomfort, and that something arrived today in the shape of a luxury feather mattress topper, a duck feather and down 13.5 tog duvet and a pair of duck feather and down pillows. Arriving home we wasted no time in tearing off the existing bedding and replacing it with all the new stuff.
The topper is about two inches deep, but the combined effect of that and the new duvet makes our bed resemble something from The Princess and the Pea. About a foot higher and considerably plumper. (I should refrain from using the word 'plumper' really, as I'm sure it'll attract the attention of totally the wrong sort of reader, but anyway...)
It remains to be seen what effect all this new gear will have on our sleeping, but I think it's odds-on for an early night tonight.
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My mattress is ok, but with my dicky back, i can't have anything too hard. I have a feather topper *and* a 1.5 inch memory foam topper. I find duvets really too warm but i have a comforter and a quilt. Now i know that sounds heavier and hotter but i prefer the weight and it's only too warm sometimes. I only have the quilt on in the dead of winter otherwise it is too much. Every time i've slept with a duvet no matter what kind, i wake up drenched in sweat. With two under it, it's dire!
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