How to Buy a Mattress and Create the Perfect Bedroom for Sleeping

Today's post comes to you in advance of tomorrow's podcast which is so packed with content that I wanted to divide it into two parts. So today, in association with our sponsor John Lewis & Partners, I am going to talk to you about sleep. We aren't getting enough of it. This is down to several things including the dreaded blue light in our bedrooms from those pesky screens, but it's also about getting the decor right and, most importantly of all - buying the right mattress. Read on for tips on all of this.

forest green bedrooms are said to encourage a good night's sleep; bedroom belonging to madaboutthehouse.com

There is talk nowadays of a sleep crisis. That we're all too wound up and working too hard to take the time for those seven hours. Which is turn is making us more wound up and more stressed and less likely to sleep. Or even to sleep well. Back in 1942, according to a survey, we regularly had 7.9 hours a night. By 2013 that had fallen by an hour and by 2016 The Centre for Disease…