We sleep on a bed made of wool batting enclosed in two sewed together wool blankets. It is super comfortable. I think most people would be better served by abandoning modern "inner-spring" mattresses
Sleeping on a wool blanket seems dreadful in hot temperatures, though. Does it ever get to high 70s or more where you live?
We live in Iowa. A quick look at the weather suggests that the high for this week is 86F.
90s aren't uncommon during the summer.
It usually cools off fairly significantly at night.
We don't use our AC except on the very hottest four or five days of the year, and always open the windows back up after supper if we did use the AC that day.
Wool is basically a miracle material in my opinion. The bed doesn't get hot. If you put a wool blanket on top of you, yes you will get too hot. But if you sleep either without a blanket or with a thin cotton on, it's really not bad.
Part of it might be that we are stubborn and counter-cultural, but also it's just a really comfortable bed and you can adjust to heat much easier than people accustomed to AC assume.
In Massachusetts, I don't have AC except (sometimes) in my office. I sleep on a pad downstairs a few days a year--I'm in the country--but usually the bedroom with a fan is fine by the time I'm going to bed.
We ordered and didn't hear anything back for a while, but then once we got an email saying they "accepted" our order, it shipped very quickly.
My wife had a question because they packaged things different than what we expected and they got back to us within an hour.
Which is to say, yes we also had slow service from them at the start of lockdown, but after things eased up a bit, they were very responsive.
Ah, yes; I meant at night. We had summers of high 80s around midnight, and high 70s are reasonably common. We also don't have AC, but frankly despite being born and raised here, I could never adjust to the heat.
I've been meaning to try a futon when I replace my current mattress; I will consider wool, thanks!
Since you said "we" I'm going to assume you have a SO, which begs the question of how's this setup with sex? If thought of making this transition before, but while this seems nice for sleeping it doesn't seem like it'd be that nice for sexy time.
Got a modern foam mattress as they were all the thing, a very well reviewed one, and regretted it ever since. It rapidly developed a sag under my quite moderate weight, and it keeps in heat rather well so in summer you cook. My advice is, don't. My next mattress will be the old fashioned sprung ones again. IME, YMMV.
Just launched a springy version at a 3x price-tag though!
Got the cheaper foamy one
In case anyone reads this:
One of the best things my wife and I have done in the past year was to switch to each of us having our own set of sheets. It's amazing. Highly recommended.
Do you have two twin mattresses side-by-side, each with its own set of sheets?
This is probably only feasible because we sleep on the floor, which means the blankets don't tend to wander in the night.
Lots of covers stealing other blanket shenanigans have been avoided in the past year though from that change.
The blankets are just queen sized wool blankets that you can find various places.
We made our bed in the winter of 2013/2014. We used 5 wool blankets with a layer of "2yd extra thick wool batting" between each pair of blankets.
It starts out very thick, but compresses down to probably 2-3 inches thick over time.
We just made a set of similar beds for our three kids, but we used 3 yards of wool and a single queen sized wool blanket folded in half for the exterior.
I will see if I can get some pictures.
Happy to answer questions either here or at the email in my profile if people are interested.
[1] https://shepherdsdream.com/
Edit:
The blankets might actually be twin sized.
Their dimensions are very close to the footprint of a standard queen bed. So I think that means they are a size down since usually blankets will overhang the mattress.
Even the twin is $1,495.
You can get a really nice foam queen for like $600.
1. A small business that basically does all the work by hand
and
2. Catering to a very niche market of upper-middle-class folks.
They sell raw materials for more reasonable prices. Labor gets expensive real quick.