European Sleep Works - Yay or Nay?

Considering purchasing a mattress from European Sleep Works in Berkeley...  and would love your thoughts or feedback based on personal experience.  

Specifically curious to know if you love it and if so why... or if you have had any issues or complaints, what were they.

Thanks, oyveyenough [at] gmail.com

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Bought mine there three years ago. My partner was reluctant to spend that much on a mattress but has since changed his mind. We're pleased. (Of course, that was in comparison to a smaller, 15 y/o mattress that had been moved many times...)

We're on our second one - we liked the first one so well that we went ahead and replaced it (@ around 18 years later) with another one.

I've been a loyal customer for over ten years. We've now replaced all mattresses in our house with European Sleepworks. They are just the most comfortable and longest-lasting mattresses I've encountered. No sagging after a few years. Our oldest one (now in our guest room but used nightly for ten years) is twelve years old and still in great shape. I also splurged for the oxygen pillow for myself and have found it well worth it. Neck pain gone. 

We bought our king bed there about 5 years ago and LOVE it. We weRe very interested in no chemicals and a locally made option. They checked both boxes. We had a great experience in the store choosing firmness and materials, we even ended up buying a very beautiful headboard made in sacramento from them as well. We always joke that vacation has lost some of its luster because the beds can never compare to our ESW bed!

We've had ours for almost 15 years and it is holding up well. I was convinced by their sales pitch that having the coils completely separated from each other allows for the most flexibility and that allows your spine to align. I am a wide hipped side sleeper and I used to have terrible lower back problems and it has helped a lot. It was so long ago, I can't remember exactly what we got, I know that we got soft top coils and something firmer on bottom. If I did it again, I might get both layers soft. We also were on the road to becoming parents and althought temperpedic and foam things were of some interest, I was freaked out by sleeping on a bag of chemicals. I started having neck problems a few years ago and bought one of their pillows, which has also been great. I have no complaints and highly recommend, although there are more options now than when we bought ours.

I bought the Alpine style bed from European Sleep Works about 15 years ago and I still love it! There has been no sagging anywhere on the bed which was a big concern for me because my husband weighs about 225 and I only weigh in at 120. He would create a sink hole in our previous bed which was a high end Simmons Beauty Rest. It's still super comfortable after 15 years but I sometimes think of replacing it with the exact model because it has become stained and I there is no easy way to clean it. BTW - I'm mostly a stomach sleeper and he is a side sleeper. Everything European Sleep Works claims on their website rings true to me.

Hi - I have had one of the more expensive ones in a firm choice (Nordic II?) for about 15 years.  For the first 5 years I said a little prayer of gratitude to the mattress every single night when I got into bed, it was so heavenly.  Just amazing. For the next 5-6 years I was totally happy with it.  Starting around year 11-12 it started feeling a bit too firm. I got a new oxygen pillow (the pillow I got with the bed was too flat by then).  I got a memory foam mattress topper, which is ok.  The bed still feels really nice when I get in, I just find I need more and more support to side sleep from my pillow as my shoulder can't sink in as well as it used to.  By the way, it's on a standard futon frame, not one of their naturally sprung frames, which would make it feel less firm.  All in all it's been great, but it is expensive. I appreciate not having as much toxic off-gassing as a standard mattress, though it does use some foam, it claims to be natural latex.

We still love our European Sleepworks bed. We bought the mid-range one, and only the mattress. We still use our old futon slats under the mattress. I can't remember when exactly we bought the bed--probably 8-10 years ago. I still find it very comfortable.

We've had a bed from European Sleep Works for almost 20 years and love it! We did have to buy a new topper at one point but we still have the original mattress and frame and all are in excellent shape.