Boring Mattress Mattress Review

The Boring Mattress is 10 inches (25.4 cm) tall, so standard fitted sheets will easily fit.

This medium mattress is best suited to average-sized and heavier side sleepers as well as average-sized and lighter back and stomach sleepers. Lighter side sleepers may want something softer that allows their hips and shoulders to sink further in, while heavier back and stomach sleepers may want something firmer to keep the spine aligned.

The Boring Mattress is moderately bouncy. It's not as bouncy as a typical innerspring or latex mattress, but compared to other hybrids, especially those that contain memory foam, it's quite bouncy and avoids the static sensation of a foam mattress.

You sink fairly deeply into the Boring Mattress, and it contours your body pretty closely, too, leading to a feeling of being cradled and hugged, but not completely enveloped. Since the memory foam layer is below a layer of polyfoam, not everyone will interact with it to the same degree. Heavier people will feel more of this layer, resulting in increased contouring.

This is a superbly responsive mattress. It recovers its shape almost instantly after you compress it, adapting to your movements, so it's easy to move around and change sleeping positions.

This mattress is excellent at isolating motion, so you don't feel every little shift. You still notice larger movements, for example, you feel movement in the lumbar area when your sleeping partner rolls over, but they don't travel throughout the mattress. Motion also dissipates very quickly, so it's less likely to wake you up.

The Boring Mattress provides excellent edge support. You can sit or lie near the edge without worrying about slipping off, thanks to the additional polyfoam built into the sides. This extra support makes it easier to get in or out of bed, too.

This mattress is great at keeping you cool throughout the night, making it a strong choice for hot sleepers who often wake up overheated. That said, it transfers heat more slowly for the first hour after you lie down, which may be an issue if you have trouble falling asleep in a warm environment.

Although it has a zipper, the manufacturer states that the cover is fixed in place and shouldn't be removed or washed.

There's additional polyfoam built into the border of the mattress, offering extra resistance when you sit or sleep near the edges. This helps give the mattress its excellent edge support.

This mattress has two layers of foam above its pocket spring support system. The upper comfort layer is made of Energex Responsive Foam, a type of polyfoam marketed for its combination of pressure relief and responsiveness. The transition layer below is memory foam. This configuration leads to a responsive surface that retains some of memory foam's common benefits, like pressure relief and motion isolation, while avoiding some of the related pitfalls, like low responsiveness and the 'lifeless' feeling often associated with memory foam.

This mattress's foam is of good quality. For polyfoam and memory foam, density is correlated with both quality and durability. The polyfoam upper comfort layer is dense enough to be considered high quality, while the memory foam layer below reaches the standard for good quality foam. These dense layers of foam will resist sagging and body impressions for longer than less dense, lower-quality foams, extending the life of your mattress.

This mattress has 3 inches (7.5 cm) of foam above its layer of pocket coils. The polyfoam upper comfort layer is 2 inches (5 cm) thick and provides a responsive surface that makes it easy to shift sleeping positions. Most people will fully compress this upper layer and feel the 1-inch (2.5 cm) memory foam transition layer to some extent, too. The transition layer adds additional contouring and pressure relief while ensuring you don't feel the individual springs below.

Pocket springs make up the support layer of this mattress. This design uses individually-wrapped coils, so each spring can move independently from the adjacent coils, allowing for increased contouring and better motion isolation compared to other types of springs. The 14-gauge springs have a medium firmness, and the layer has an average density. Combined with the softer upper layers, they give the mattress a medium firmness overall.

The polyfoam upper comfort layer is soft. It creates a cushioned sleeping surface that relieves pressure. The transition foam is firmer, with a medium feel that helps ensure you don't sink too far into the mattress or feel the individual springs below.

The support layer of this mattress is made up of pocket springs. They offer moderate support at the head and foot of the mattress and a little extra resistance at the lumbar to offer extra support to the heaviest parts of the body—the hips or lumbar, depending on your sleeping position. Together with the softer comfort layers, the pocket springs produce a medium mattress.

Neither of the mattress's foam layers is very resilient, or bouncy. The memory foam transition layer has very low resilience, which is expected of this soft, slow-moving material. It helps to relieve pressure and provide a smooth transition to the support layer beneath. The polyfoam comfort layer is more resilient, adding a bit of bounciness to the mattress overall, though it's still not as resilient as typical polyfoam.

The pocket spring support layer is somewhat bouncy. Compared to other hybrids, the springs don't 'push back' very much when compressed, but they are still springy enough to produce a moderately bouncy mattress overall.