An All-Foam DIY Mattress for a Guest Cottage in the Catskills
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The Need for a New All-Foam DIY Mattress
Bekka is an actor, artist, writer, and musician living a dual life.
She has a gorgeous loft with spectacular roof access in the heart of Manhattan and also owns a lovely retreat in the Catskills with a main house and guest cottage.
She’s in the process of renovating her guest cottage, with a focus element being a new bed and mattress.
Rebels Gonna Rebel
As a rebel of long-standing, Bekka, of course, wants to make her own foam DIY mattress for all the great reasons we talk about.
She’s found a terrific full-size bed frame that she loves and wants to assemble a mattress for it that both stays within budget and is also comfy and cozy for guests who come to visit her mountain hideaway.
Her budget was $1000ish for a full-size mattress. It’s for a guest cottage, so it doesn’t make sense to splash out too much for a bed that will primarily be used at weekends and around holidays.
On the other hand, there is every reason to get the best value she can. Let’s see what she came up with, shall we?
A Huge Money saver! Wish I’d Done It Sooner
I love this mattress and so appreciate that I can repair it whenever it’s needed.
The cover is even machine-washable! 💙
Four Layers of Goodness
Because this all-foam DIY mattress is for a guest cottage, it didn’t need to be super fancy.
But Bekka still wanted her guests to enjoy a sumptuous bed to enhance their comfort and rest while visiting.
She chose to economize by opting for polyfoams as the bottom two layers while splurging on latex foam for the top layer.
She stacked it all on top of a coco coir mat and wrapped it up in an organic cotton knit zippered cover.
Cozy Mattress For a Guest Cottage
A budget-friendly mattress with higher-end details is a terrific value for a cozy Catskills retreat.
Materials
Instructions
- Spread out the zippered cover on your bed frame. If using a slatted bed frame, ensure the slats are no more than 3″ apart.
- Unzip and remove or fold back the top of your zippered cover. (some covers are a bit different, but generally not difficult to figure out)
- Lay down the 1″ coco coir bed rug/mattress pad layer, lining it up carefully with the bottom of the cover.Unbox your support layer foam and plop it on top of the coco coir mat with gusto and verve.
- Finesse the foam needed as needed to get it lined up with the coco mat. If they don’t line up perfectly, do not stress. All is well. It’s no big deal.
- Stack your transition layer of foam on top of the support layer. Again, be at peace if one is slightly larger or smaller than the other. Feel free to gently (gently!) stretch or smush to get them as closely lined up as you can.
- Plop the latex foam on top and repeat the process of getting them generally lined up and looking square-ish inside your cover.
- Zip up the cover.
- Now, spring onto your heavenly new mattress, sink into its loving embrace, and celebrate your success with a sleepover.
Notes
This mattress uses a transition layer and a base layer. Not all mattresses use transition and base layers, but as you can see here, some do.
A transition layer is between the support and comfort layers.
Unsurprisingly, a base layer is a thin, firm layer at the very base of the mattress, below the support layer.
The video below ⬇️ demonstrates how to put together an all-latex foam mattress. It’s not exactly the same as Bekka’s build, but it’s similar enough to get a general idea of how to assemble this mattress.
