Handling Change: Transitioning Your Kids’ Room Into a Grown-Up Guest Room

Change is ALWAYS difficult. Few changes are more bittersweet than watching your youngsters grow up and leave home. It’s an amazing transformation as your child navigates rapid growth from sprawlingly playful and exuberant pre-teen and tween years into unsure, awkward adolescence and emerges a well-rounded young adult. That makes furnishing your kids’ room an extra challenge. However, with some judicious planning and a careful eye, choosing versatile kids’ room furniture you can continue using once your offspring are on their own needn’t be a headache. At Curly’s Furniture we’ve helped countless families in your situation so here’s another dose of free advice.

Choosing Bedroom Furniture to Stand the Test of Time

My, how the years fly by! Seems like yesterday you were having a baby shower and arranging the nursery with adorable toys and practical goodies around the crib. Blink, and your cantankerous toddler is getting his own bedroom, maybe with fun bunk beds or a favorite kids’ theme such as race cars or My Little Pony. Then in a flash it all became way too babyish and your hard-headed daughter was rushing headlong into trying to be a grownup. Enough to make your head spin, right? We’ve been there. More important right now, your child’s growth spurt into a teenager gives you a leg-up for when he or she is trying out independence. The sturdy twin bedroom set you choose can either last you many decades longer as a guest bedroom or your grown children can use it for THEIR blooming youngsters. The cycle of life stops for no one!

Versatile Home Accents That Are Still FUN!

That said, being grown-up for a teenager’s bedroom or guest room doesn’t rule out fun. Choose appropriate home accents such as wall art to add some pop-art coolness and splashes of color to brighten the day of whoever is using your space. Life’s changes can be enjoyable after all.

For all your kids’ room furniture and other home decor challenges our Streator, IL store is at your disposal, open 7 days a week!

Based on Your Sleep Style, Which Mattress Is Best?

Sleep preferences are unique to everyone, not just morning people vs. night owls but snorers (something a doctor should check if it gets too loud or interrupts your sleep) and, relevant to choosing your foam, spring, or hybrid mattress at Curly’s Furniture, how exactly you like to lie down and settle in for your nightly Zs. That leaves three possibilities, back, side and stomach sleepers. Even the finest, most technologically advanced mattress will do a subpar job keeping you rested if you’re mismatched. The good news is you don’t have to read the hundreds of mattress reviews when you shop. We’ve done the work for you. In this blog post we offer our advice based on years of our mattress store outfitting households like yours. So let’s have a look at each sleeping posture and suggest a mattress that’s a good fit.

Recommended Mattresses for Back Sleepers

Do you just love stretching out flat on your back when you retire for the night, and tend to stay face up for your 7-9 hours in the sack? If that’s you, most doctors congratulate you. Back sleepers are literally in the best position to maintain their spine’s natural shape, preventing pain and injury. Because this part of your skeleton is vital to your well-being, you require a mattress that will “give” just enough to preserve your backbone’s lumbar curve, the slight indentation above your buttocks so your vertebrae move trouble-free when you’re up and about. You also want a mattress that’s easy on your body’s pressure points, literally a sore subject for too many people. A worn-out mattress does your spine a disservice, putting you at risk. We recommend replacing it with a medium firm mattress, something with pocketed coils and/or a strong high-density foam core to take over your body’s support from your muscles. The support foam on top should contour to your spine.

Ideal Solutions for Side Sleepers

People prefer to sleep on their sides for all kinds of reasons, such as easier breathing for one side of the nose and sinuses. This presents a challenge to mattress shoppers. That’s because, male or female, your side – knees, hips, and shoulder – is curvier than your back or front. That means more possibly painful pressure points to worry about! Because of that, we recommend the opposite of what many need. You require a soft mattress! A material that’s both accommodating and supportive enough is latex foam. This has been fine-tuned since its debut so you get airflow at the cellular level, better than ordinary memory foam mattresses, both holding you and making sure your “ride” is perfectly temperature-controlled. Hybrid mattresses with gel are another popular option for side sleepers.

Stomach Sleepers Can Now Rest Easy

As with back sleepers, those of you who naturally sleep prone, face down, need extra support. Unfortunately, your preferred position lends itself to more back pain, because an ordinary mattress will often give away at your hips, putting you out of balance. Ironically, this kind of pain is why many choose to be stomach sleepers, a temporary fix that can lead to big problems. You need an extra-firm mattress. Your options include reliable, affordable innerspring mattresses with up-to-date coil technology as well as high-density core foam and hybrid models.

For the finest in sleep solutions via top-brand mattresses at bargain prices daily, be sure to visit our DeKalb, IL store or one of our other Illinois locations.