Wednesday, 22 February
A king is not a king when it’s a Sleep Number® bed in a motorhome. No wonder the king size mattress pad and sheets we initially bought for the Phaeton didn’t fit the way they were supposed to — even after we washed them in hot water!
Stupid us! We didn’t measure the mattress before shopping for bedding. After all, a king is a king. Right? Wrong!!! Even the sales people at the Sleep Number® store we went to at Fair Oaks Mall weren’t aware of the ‘custom king’ mattress. At 72” x 80” (1.8 x 2 m), the mattress in the motorhome is 4 inches (10 cm) narrower than the standard king — that’s Eastern, not California. That’s enough to make all the difference in the fit of the bedding.
Thanks to MBZ, friend and fellow Phaeton owner, who gets to have her rolling home parked next to her stix & brix home, we didn't have to make a special trip out to the coach to measure our mattress. Not only did she do the measuring for us, but she provided a link to Camping World to confirm the custom size. Who knew that CW sold Sleep Number® beds! As well, MBZ pointed us in the direction of right-sized bedding, which we ordered from Amazon.
These Sleep Number® products didn’t work for the Phaeton bed, but we’re keeping
them for when we buy our Eastern King after we’re done with our nomad lifestyle.
Ah, yes; these work beautifully. Just the right size.
The linens are washed and the bed is made up, complete with the tea-dyed matelassé
cover we prefer to the bedspread that came with the Phaeton.
Finally, sheets stretched taut and not a wrinkle, crumple, crinkle, or bump in sight! No Princess and the Pea experience for these two campers, thank you very much.
EXCELLENT! Let us call them "Monarch" sized ;))
ReplyDeletePerfect! I hate wrinkled, scrunchy sheets :)
ReplyDeleteWell that's good to know even if Winnona only has a queen. Does seem like something dealers should mention.
ReplyDeleteBut I can see I'll have to close the bedroom door when you come to visit. All I do is "sort of" pull up the sheets and blanket and then throw a down comforter over it all and call it made, lumpy and all. :-)
Looks like it's fit for a king...and a queen!!
ReplyDeleteFunny, Mo and I were just discussing the Sleep Number beds today, have a friend who loves them, another who returned theirs. Guess you love yours? Of course, most of the bedspreads that come with rigs are some sort of sweaty polyester. Ugh. Your choice looks lovely....except I can't quite picture it on a muddy day. Our cotton striped quilt hides the worst of whatever shows up till I can get back to the washer.
ReplyDeleteYou could fit a King and his whole army on that bed!
ReplyDeleteYou missed your calling. You should be the interior decorator at Tiffin, Winnebago, Newmar and the rest of them. How do they pick those tacky interior colors anyway? ;c)
Such a nice job on making that bed! You could be in the Army if you keep that up!!
ReplyDeleteOur Phaeton has the memory foam bed and is the same odd size - 72 x 80. We've just bought 2 sets of 76 x 80 (Eastern) King sheets, so we'll have to live with the problem for awhile. I'm thinking of sewing a tuck on one side...
ReplyDeleteWe have been dealing with ill fitting sheets too. We have an 11 inch thick memory foam mattress in the Rv queen size. I have been getting regular queen sheets, which are too long, but I need the extra thickness. I'll have to look around on Amazon. Are the sheets you got wrinkle free? I'd sure like some sheets that fit!
ReplyDeleteTo answer Karen and Al's question -- no, the sheets are not wrinkle free ... for now, I can live with that -- after all, who's going to look under the blanket and the bed cover :-)
ReplyDeleteIt is true, the devil is in the detail:) We have a queen number bed and we just buy queen sets. Some fit good and some less so. Here I thought it was a quality issue, but we may have picked up eastern/Ca/china sizes without knowing:)
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