I have recovered from the exhausting work of cleaning out the drink cabinet, heh-heh, so I can tell you the tale of my quest for the perfect bed.
Brad Pitt says to get a regular firm mattress and put a memory foam topper on it for the perfect mattress. I thought, if Brad and Angie sleep on it, it must be pretty awesome, so I will too - er, only not with them, in my house... So after about 10 years on a very comfortable queen size bed with feather topper, we were finally ready to get a, gasp, king size.
Since moving a king bed is a similar experience to getting a root canal only without the drugs, I wanted some more portable options, so I found a steel frame that doubles as a box spring and folds up. Very cool! It's been great and the storage room is fantastic and it makes a great place to hide while playing hide-n-seek.
Sleep Master King Steel Mattress Foundation from Kmart.
Then I went to Overstock and looked around. Bingo!
There was the Adjust-A-Coil Plush 1-inch Foam Top King Mattress. A 8" firm mattress that comes in three pieces with a zippered cover to contain them. It is really weird and comfortable and amazing. Below you can see one of the spring segments oozing out of the twin size or maybe the someone gave up wrestling to put it in. They were a tight fit and we wrestled them a bit - and won!

They had plenty of memory foam pads too. I settled on a 4" 5.3 density. I wasn't sure how I'd like it since they have a reputation for making you sweaty and immobile and I don't need any help in either of those areas. It's been great! I can roll over, but I don't really want to and so far no more sweatier than normal. I was going to post a picture, but I think you know what a king size piece of 4" yellow foam looks like. I got this one:
4-inch Accu-Gold Visco Elastic Memory Foam Bed TopperI dearly loved my featherbed on my old mattress, but they were fairly expensive, so I got a fiberbed figuring there has been lots of innovation there, I'll save some money and it'll be great. It's not. It is a lumpy, back-breaking disaster! It's like putting a bunch of small, firm polyester pillows on your bed 3- 4 inches apart. No... no, it's like sleeping on a large cobblestone road - while getting run over by a truck - not comfy!!

This is the one not to get, unless you like teetering on poofs of demon polyester that you can't return once you try it;
Gusseted 300 Thread Count Antimicrobial Fiberbed. It's sold out now - those poor unfortunate souls. On the bright side, we're going to refashion it into some very awesome pillows - stay tuned.

In that last photo you got a glimpse of 'my precious'. Comforter shopping was disappointing and exhausting. Just when I was about to give up and get the next tacky piece of crap I saw, I decided to just get this one I had my eye on at Overstock. Both Annissa and I liked it based on the one photo and description, so I figured one of us was bound to find it acceptable. It's mine!!!! Lovely, well made, opulent thing of beauty. Wait... Okay, I'm back from lovingly gazing at it and stroking it gently.

The shams are to die for! It's perfect. It's this one, if you're looking for one
; Westone Grace Embroidered 4-piece Comforter Set (pictures make it appear a little darker and yellower than actual do to the romantic lighting in that room. Okay, well kinda dim bulbs and a CFL in the ceiling fan, but let's call it romantic mood lighting.) The embroidery is so beautiful!

I've decided to replace the fiberbed from hell with this featherbed:
Super Snooze 5-inch 230 Thread Count Baffled Featherbed. I figure it'll replace my much loved, now too small, one and protect against the potential for summer sweatiness on the foam. I'll let you know how this works out.
A box-springless, firm mattress with a memory foam topper and a featherbed. Maybe it's what George Clooney thinks is the perfect bed - yeah, that's it...
Sweet dreams!
Pam