Tuft And Needle Original Mattress Review

The Tuft and Needle Mattress has really been setting the sleep tech world on fire in the last few years because everyone finds it comfortable.

Well, everyone I’ve spoken to anyway.

Regardless of where you are on the sleep firmness spectrum, you should find contentment in this mattress. They’ve really fine tuned their product so that it’s the best of both worlds, enjoying the support of a firm mattress with the luxe comfort of a softer one.

Unless you’re at the extreme edges of what you find comfortable, I think you’ll be sleeping soundly on a Tuft & Needle Original — regardless of whether you’re on your back, side or stomach.

Let’s face it, most of us aren’t only using our mattresses for sleep.

But fear not — those who indulge in, ahem, night time bed-based activities will find that the T&N Originaal is up to the task and then some.

One of my routine complaints about memory foam is that you sink in and it wraps around your body. Comfortable, sure, but not the best for activities like getting out of bed.

The Tuft and Needle adaptive foam, however, has got an excellent bounce to it.

But that doesn’t mean that you’ll be waking up your partner every time you get in and out of bed. All movement is localized and there’s an impressively minimal motion transfer.

The unique adaptive foam is seriously something to write home about.

Not only is it super comfortable, but it offers a fantastic level of support that’s normally only observed in much more expensive models.

The foam ensures your weight is evenly distributed through your body, providing excellent pressure point relief that rivals the most sophisticated memory foam configurations.

People suffering from back problems have reported good findings from the Tuft & Needle Original as it’s been specially calibrated to support the entire body and align your neck, spine and general posture.

The adaptive foam distributes your body weight evenly across the mattress, relieving any pressure on any individual sore spots and allowing you to experience a ‘float-like’ sleep.

Even people not suffering from back problems will find that the sheer comfort of this mattress eliminates the tossing and turning to get comfortable that’s usually experienced in bed, leading to an overall better sleeping experience.

Tuft & Needle advertize a 100 night trial period on their website (make sure you double check that this applies if you’re buying from another retailer), which is a great feature to have on a mattress bought online.

If you decide the mattress isn’t for you during that period, simply get in contact to arrange to have it returned.

Simple.

Encouragingly, something like 95% of customers hang on to their mattress despite this generous trial period.

Like many direct to consumer mattress brands nowadays, Tuft & Needle provide an efficient and easy shipping process, whereby the mattress is vacuum packed and folded into a reasonably small box and delivered direct to your door.

Once the packaging has been removed, the mattress expands to its full size relatively quickly, so it’s best to unpack it when you’ve already transported it to your bedroom.

They officially advise that the full expansion period should take about 12 hours — quite a lot quicker than most vacuum packed mattresses.

Here’s the company’s official video on how to best unbox the product:

As you can see from the video, they package the Tuft and Needle mattress in a very stylish box — I was very excited to see mine arrive kerbside!

Now, I’m not saying that you’re likely to roll off the bed if you buy this mattress, but it’s definitely not as reinforced at the edges as I’d like it to be.

This is unlikely to affect buyers of the larger size models, but for those of us on the Twin or sharing a Queen, for instance, may feel like there’s no quite enough support around the perimeter.

There are mixed reports about whether this Tuft and Needle mattress gives out any smell when it’s initially unpacked.

While it’s certainly nowhere near as pungent as many traditional memory foam mattresses, there is definitely a degree of off-gassing present that may be more noticeable in a small bedroom.

I’d recommend airing it out for as long as possible to avoid this if you’ve got a sensitive nose.