Small Home Gazette, Winter 2024

A Recommendation for Antique Bed Mattresses

We received the below email from Bungalow Club member Chris Opsal. It is in response to an article in the Fall 2023 issue of this newsletter titled “Beds for Your Bungalow.”

Hi, Bungalow Club—

I just finished reading your latest newsletter and wanted to write to you with some intel on a place folks can get custom mattresses made for their unusually-sized antique beds. I sleep in a mission-style 3/4 bed that was my great-great grandma’s. This spring I had Minnesota Mattress Factory in Kenyon make me a new custom mattress for it.

We visited them one day to pick out the mattress “innards.” (We combined our visit to Kenyon with a trip to Faribault to tour the Faribault Woolen Mills—a historic adventure in itself!)

The Minnesota Mattress Factory had my new mattress done in a few days. They are regularly in the Twin Cities, so they delivered it to my home. They were great to work with, and I was stunned at how easy and quick the process was—had I known that, I would’ve done it years ago!