Mattress Buying Guide

Manchester-based sleep coach Nick Littlehales has advised the England football squad on how to achieve maximum match fitness by getting the right kind of overnight rest.
His expertise could not save the team from the nightmare of failing to qualify for Euro 2008, but he hopes this will not hinder his new business venture.
Littlehales has designed [...]

In the Valley, our bragging rights are stuck in a season of suffering: Recession rumblings make vacation talk gauche, and no one is reveling in real estate anymore. Instead, even gloat-worthy chatter topics have gone green.
We’re comparing gas mileage over morning coffee, jealous of those smug Prius pioneers and their 44 miles per gallon. There’s [...]

Recently, I moved my 3-year-old daughter to a big girl bed. It went a lot easier than I thought. But it got me thinking: How do you know when it’s time to move your toddler to a big bed?
My husband and I decided it was time when our toddler was waking up every night for [...]

Sometimes I wonder, what is this blog about? The Internet is rife with parenting blogs and sites. How is SFGate’s different? This site is about parenting in the Bay Area. It’s about raising kids in this amazing yet often quirky place that we call home.
To promote this theme, I’m introducing a new feature called “A [...]

Can’t sleep? Is the thought of creating consumer waste with your next furniture purchase keeping you up at night? Green Nest LLC makes green living easy with their e-commerce site, www.GreenNest.com offering eco-friendly products and furniture.
Through their winning entries in Green Nest’s Freecycle Contest, both Shannon B. of Windsor, CT and Holly A. of Topanga, [...]

Mattress-maker Sealy is launching a new ad campaign aimed at convincing sleepers their products will help them get the most out of what little sack-time they may get.
“If you can only get six, then why not get a better six?” the ads ask, referring to the fact that most Americans no longer get the traditional [...]

Clipping coupons is one thing, but scrimping on sleep is another. Recent studies reveal that most Americans don’t get the eight hours of sleep they need at night to perform during the day- and most are lucky to get six, says the National Sleep Foundation.
Research shows that constant tossing [...]

What’s the most time-consuming thing you do, day in and day out, every day of your life? Eating? I hope not. Sitting in traffic? Ditto. Watching TV? Nope. It’s sleeping.
You spend between six and 10 hours a night in bed. That’s one-third of your life. And when it comes to back pain, those are some [...]

The Dormia line by Classic Sleep Products, a leading innovator in the design and marketing of specialty mattresses and bedding, announced that it is set to merge its line of budget-friendly visco mattresses with their compressible mattresses and hinged foundations in a three-mattress collection ($699-$1,599) debuting at Las Vegas market.
“Consumers and retailers alike are looking [...]

John and Valarie Feaster like contemporary decor and used a lot of it in their previous home in Fresno.
But when they recently bought and restored a 100-year-old Colonial Revival-style house, “we kind of switched” because of the house’s age, says John Feaster, a retired dentist.
They bought many of the home’s original furniture pieces and fixtures, [...]