Brooklyn Bedding Bowery Mattress Review

If you're looking for a hybrid mattress which combines a comfort layer of memory foam and metal springs, providing you with pleasant cushioning side-by-side with firm support and bounciness, then the Brooklyn Bedding Bowery may well be the right choice for you. It's obviously not the only hybrid mattress on the market, but its greatest upside is that it offers you high quality at a competitive price.

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Pros & Cons

Mattress Construction

The Bowery has four layers comprised of different types of foam for enhanced body-contouring and coils for bounciness and lift to prevent over-sinking.

Cover: Strong polyester protecting the surface of the mattress from wear and tear.

Comfort Layer: 1'' gel memory foam giving sleepers a pleasant sinking sensation and alleviating pressure.

Transition Layer: 2'' of harder poly foam to counter the softness of the comfort layer above providing sleepers with stability by preventing excessive sinking.

Support Layer: 6'' of up to 1,032 separately encased Ascension coils which generate firm compression support and enable ease of movement. Due to the gaps between the coils, air can flow freely and cool down the mattress as a whole.

Base Layer: 1'' of high-density foam giving the mattress extra durability and supporting the coils as they compress.

Feel

How you experience a mattress is in many cases a result of your sleeping habits and a body weight. Generally speaking, the Browery Hybrid gives a plush soft feel thanks to the body-contouring gel memory foam in the comfort layer. This feel is well balanced with the bounciness created by the harder poly foam in the transition layer and the steel coils below.

Having said that, the relatively upper thin layers of foam may not be enough to keep heavyweight sleepers from sinking straight through the coils. This may lead to discomfort as a result of pressure accumulating in the hips and shoulders especially for side sleepers.

Pressure Relief

The Bowery Hybrid performs well for light and average weight back sleepers. The foam in the comfort layer will provide them with sufficient contouring to avert the accumulation of pressure especially in the lumbar area.

As their weight increases, back sleepers may experience too much sinking which can lead to back pains as a result of inadequate spinal support.

Side sleepers who weigh up to 250 pounds will enjoy the softness of the foam in the comfort layer. In contrast, heavier sleepers, especially those whose weight exceeds 300 pounds, may suffer from discomfort in the hips and shoulders as there isn't enough foam in the mattress to enable effective point pressure relief.

Stomach sleepers who weigh no more than 150 pounds will most likely find the mattress to be comfortable. Heavier sleepers, on the other hand, should opt for firmer mattresses, perhaps even mattresses for heavy people, especially if they're particularly big. The Bowery is too soft to curb over-sinking in the lower abdomen area. 

Motion Isolation

The Bowery's capacity to isolate motion is average. Its foam layers are too thin, and it has 1,000+ coils which create some bounciness. On the bright side, these are pocketed coils which respond individually to pressure created by sleepers' movements. Practically speaking, if your partner doesn't move frantically and you're not a light sleepers, your night sleep won't be seriously disturbed.

Repositioning

The thin foam layers and the coils prevent too much sinkage and so enable easy movement on the surface of the mattress. This might not be true for heavyweight sleepers for whom the Bowery isn't firm enough to prevent excessive sinking.

Edge Support

The Bowery Hybrid doesn't offer the best perimeter support. The gel memory foam creates some sinkage and the mattress as a whole doesn't support heavy sleepers well enough. That doesn't mean you'll roll out of bed if you sleep on the edge, but you may want to move towards the center to feel more stable and, therefore, reduce your potential sleep surface.

Heat Retention

Memory foam tends to retain heat, but, fortunately, the amount of it in the Bowery is small. Moreover, it's gel-infused, so it keeps the mattress relatively cooler. The coils, on their part, enable free flow of air and, therefore, facilitate moisture wicking. Taking all of that into consideration, the Bowery does a good job at dissipating excess heat.

Frame & Foundation

You can use any type of support system that is firm enough for your new Bowery mattress. This includes box springs and slat foundations. If you opt for the latter, the slats shouldn't be more than 3''-4'' apart.

Brooklyn Bedding offers you its own foundations. The Super Duty High Rise is sold at a starting price of $129 and reaches $219 for a CA King size mattress. The Ascension Bi-Fold Foundation is a bit more expensive with prices ranging from $229 for Twin size to $329 for CA King. The Ready-to-Assemble Box feels like a box spring. It costs $249 for a Twin mattress and climbs up all the way to $369 for Cal King. You can also purchase an adjustable base for $599-$1,398 (depending on the size and type of the base), which the Bowery is compatible with.

All of these foundations offer critical center support and are especially adapted to Brooklyn Bedding's mattresses.

Additional Details

The Bowery mattress is available only on Brooklyn's Bedding's website. There are showrooms in Arizona, Texas, Montana, the Great Lakes region and in the East Coast. You can go there and physically check the mattress before you purchase it online. To trace these showrooms, refer to the locations finder on the company's website.

Brooklyn Bedding is a leading online mattress brand founded in 1995. It started selling mattresses online in 2010. Its products are manufactured in Arizona, USA. This is also where its main offices are located.

All of Brooklyn Bedding's mattresses are CertiPUR-US Certified. That is, they don't contain toxic chemicals which may endanger sleepers' health, such as ozone depleters, flame retardants (PBDEs, TDCPP or TCEP), heavy metals, formaldehyde and phthalates.

The mattresses are also manufactured according to stringent guidelines for low Volatile Organic Compound emission  (less than 0.5 parts per million) to maintain high indoor air quality

Last but not least, Brooklyn Bedding offers year round discounts of 20%-25% on all its products. The Bowery Hybrid is included.

Shipping and Delivery

The Bowery Hybrid is shipped to any destination within the continental USA for free. Customers in Hawaii and Alaska will be required to pay extra 150$ for shipment. Customers in Canada will be charged $250.

The mattress will arrive at your doorstep packed in a box and wrapped in plastic within 12-20 business days. You'll have to carry the box to your desired room and unpack the mattress.

Brooklyn Bedding doesn't offer White Glove Delivery. Yet you can hire a third-party company which will provide you with this service including the removal of your old mattress. Prices vary nationwide.

Returns & Warranty

The Bowery comes with a 120 nights trial and a break in period of 30 nights. In other words, After 30 nights from the moment you got the mattress and no later than 120 nights, you can return the mattress and get a full refund (not including shipping charges to Hawaii, Alaska and Canada).

You won't need to contact Brooklyn Bedding to arrange for the delivery of the mattress. Instead, you'll be asked to donated it to charity and send the company the donation slip.

The Bowery is backed by a 10-year limited warranty which covers manufacturing defects, premature erosion of the mattress' foam and cover and impressions on the surface which are deeper than 1''.

The warranty doesn't cover normal wear-and-tear, spills and burn marks, and it'll become void if the mattress isn't supported by a solid foundation.

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The Bottom Line

Brooklyn Bedding's Bowery mattress is meant for sleepers looking for the benefits of a hybrid mattress in terms of comfort provided by soft pressure relieving memory foam side by side with the support of a coil system. And, most importantly, this high-quality mattress comes at an affordable price. 

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