Finding the right mattress can be a challenge. You spend more than a third of each day in bed, which means that your mattress is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home. But what kind do you need?
Most mattress retailers offer three major types of mattress to customers:
- Innerspring or coil mattresses
If you’ve ever jumped on a bed and felt that springy bounce, you were on an innerspring mattress. At their core, these mattresses use metal springs or coils to support your body as you sleep. Innerspring mattresses are available at many different price points and with varying degrees of firmness.
- Memory foam mattresses
This space-age material (it was literally developed by NASA for use in pilot seats) conforms itself to your body when you lay down and then returns to its original flat shape when you get back up again. Memory foam mattresses tend to have a high degree of support and comfort, but they also tend to “hug” or contour close to the body as you sleep. They don’t bounce or spring back like an innerspring mattress.
- Hybrid mattresses
These combine the best of both worlds between innerspring and foam mattresses. They can have the deep bounce of an innerspring while offering the soft comfort of a foam mattress. While construction differs depending on the mattress, most feature a several inches of memory foam atop an innerspring layer.
“No two people are the same,” says Daniel Platz, general manager of Buckeye Furniture Mattress Center. “Everyone requires a different mattress for different reasons.” As people age, their bodies and sleep habits change, and different people have different sleeping positions (whether on their sides or back) and prefer different degrees of firmness.
Platz explains that all these variables are why Buckeye Furniture developed iMatch, a comprehensive system for classifying and choosing mattresses available in the company’s Lima store. The iMatch system uses a computerized touchscreen to walk customers through a series of questions about their sleep patterns and preferences.
Some of the questions include height, weight, whether someone has back or body pains, preferred sleep position and more. The system then recommends the best mattress based on all the variables.
“What iMatch does is cut through all the coil and foam confusion,” Platz says. The team at Buckeye analyzed each mattress’s support level and firmness. “What we’re trying to do is match up the right mattress for them,” Platz says. Because different types of mattress construction offer different levels of firmness, each mattress received a rating on a firmness scale from 2 to 5, with 5 being the firmest. “Mattresses are all made differently, and you can’t see inside of them,” he says. iMatch lets customers more easily compare memory foam mattresses to innerspring or hybrid mattresses.
Visit Buckeye Furniture Mattress Center at 3790 Harding Highway to try the iMatch system in person and find the right mattress for you. Buckeye Furniture has been helping customers get better sleep with the best selection of mattresses in the Lima area since 1965.
To learn more about Buckeye Furniture Mattress Center, visit BuckeyeMattressCenter.com or call (419) 225-9712.
