Can a pillow top be too soft??? Stearns & Foster Southmore Plush Euro Top Mattress
Bed makes a difference Stearns & Foster Southmore Plush Euro Top Mattress I was surprised what a difference a nice mattress makes in my life. I went from an average bed to th...
Sleep like a baby Stearns & Foster Southmore Plush Euro Top Mattress Three months ago, my husband and I started looking for a new, firm mattress. I sent him out to check...
My wife and I were mattress shopping for quite some time. We have an Art Van furniture store in our town so we had lots to choose from. But unfortunately Stearns and Foster makes “special named” models specifically for Art Van. The Southmore is roughly the equivalent of what we purchased (Firm yet Ultra-Plush pillow top).
My wife loves very soft plush sleeping surfaces, she is only 115lbs. I am about 180lbs and usually have minor back problems, usually sore lower back etc, so I like a supportive sleeping surface. We decided to go for broke and get the best mattress they had, regardless of price. We laid on a Tempur-pedic and thought it was really cool, but it had a “rock hard” feel when you rolled over. It is probably very nice if you sleep in one spot all night, but I am a mover so we ruled it out. We looked at their best Stearns and Foster $2400 for a King, and it looked very Regal. Kind of like a Cadillac of beds, which is exactly what the salesman called it. It was VERY thick, approx 19 inches due to the ultra plush pillow top on both sides. At first we thought that would be kind of “cool” and majestic, but later regretted it as sheets were almost impossible to find at a reasonable price.
When it was delivered we were excited and eager to get a great nights sleep. We got the “half height” special Stearns box spring set so it wouldn’t look weird in a bed frame, and it was STILL very tall! After sleeping on it for a week or so we had to get a different mattress. Following are the reasons why:
1. The “Ultra-Plush” pillow top was actually too plush and soft, if you can believe that! How can that be you ask? The only way I can explain it is that it almost feels like an extremely soft “little bed” on a regular mattress. I laid on a 30 year old “family” mattress and sunk down to the box spring a few months ago. My middle section, being heavier than my legs and head sunk and bowed my body leaving me to wake up with quite a backache. This might sound funny, but the Stearns HUGE pillow top was actually so soft, that I couldn’t tell the difference between the “old” mattress and the Stearns! Don’t get me wrong, under the plush pillow top is a very quality supportive mattress, but the pillow top is so thick that your middle actually “sinks” in and bows your body! Maybe good for some, but definitely gave me a backache.
2. The mattress is “so tall, huge and heavy” that flipping it would have been quite a chore! The worst thing for my wife was actually cosmetic. She bought this very nice comforter set with matching bet skirt and the comforter wouldn’t hang far enough over the sides due to the thickness of the mattress! The bed sheets and mattress pad would only go down to the bottom of the mattress spring and not the bottom pillow top! So that left a “space” of pure mattress showing. Kind of ugly compared to a “proper” fitted sheet set.
Once again, I am not taking anything away from the quality of a Stearns. It is exceptional. I have just found the huge “ultra plush” pillow top to be way too soft and promote body sag. I’m sure Stearns has many more “firmer” mattresses that would be fine. However I have settled on a Simmons BeautyRest with a 4in latex pad, which I found to be very soft and yet at the same time didn’t let the middle of my body sag or dip, thus keeping my back straight for the nights sleep.
However if you are a small person and don’t care about body sag, and want the absolute softest, cloudlike mattress, then you would have loved it.
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