Skip links Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Vibrant health means you can live life to the fullest. Empower yourself with the steps I used to free my life of chronic disease and medications. I’m an author, entrepreneur, and nutritional therapy practitioner (NTP). I began this website at 19, to share the steps that freed my life of chronic disease and medication. Now, Empowered Sustenance has reached 30 million readers with healthy recipes and holistic resources. Essential Oils for Brain FunctionBurn 600 Calories Sitting, and 6 other Infrared Sauna BenefitsThrive Market: The Netflix of FoodMeal Plans, Customized Exactly for YOUHolistic Hair CarePillowtop Mattresses to Bedroom Furniture At The Sleep Shop of Appleton, Wisconsin, we sell many items for your home – all mattress sizes from twin to king sets, along with bedroom furniture, recliners, lift chairs, futons and more. Come in and see everything we have to offer! Headboards, Footboards & Bed Frames
Recliners, Glider Rockers & Lift Chairs Based in Wisconsin, The Sleep Shop has been developing and constructing mattresses for over 50 years in the Fox Valley. Through our many years of experience, we have created a line of mattresses to fit any style of comfort and luxury. Our mattress sets carry a lifetime warranty, and since we are an actual mattress factory, we offer a much better product for a much lower price. Our Sleep Shop line has many different models, ranging from basic to plush pillowtop mattresses and covering all price ranges. The sales floor has all of our models on display, from twin to king sizes. We will even custom-make any mattress in any size you need. So whether you need a new mattress set for yourself, one for your camper or boat, a special size for an antique bed, or just an extra set for guests, stop in and speak to one of our mattress specialists. Pillowtop mattresses have been the best innovation in sleep comfort to enter the mattress industry in the last 100 years.
Pillowtop mattresses were developed to make a firm mattress feel soft. The idea was that a person shouldn't have to sacrifice soft, luxurious comfort to get the firm support we need for sleep. At The Sleep Shop of Appleton, we make a wide variety of pillowtop mattresses, ranging from firm to super-soft, all on display at our mattress store. Headboards, Footboards & Complete Bed Frames The Sleep Shop carries one of the largest selections of headboards, footboards and bed frames in the Fox Valley and Northeast Wisconsin area. We have over 100 different styles of wood or metal headboards in twin, full, queen and king on display every day in our showroom. No matter what size or style you are looking for, stop in at The Sleep Shop for the best variety. Precision engineering and advanced technology combine to make Adjusta-Magic Signature Series the best solid state, electronic controlled adjustable bed available. The convenient hand wand allows you to easily position yourself as you read, work, watch television, relieve back or muscle strain, sleep or simply relax in bed.
The pride of skilled craftsmen creates unmatched beauty in bedroom furniture designs by Mobel. Each piece is constructed with the highest standards of quality and precision. Carefully selected solid oak hardwood – not veneer – is used for tops, drawer fronts and ends. Even the backs, drawer bottoms and dustproofing on Mobel’s bedroom furniture are genuine wood. Heavy plate glass mirrors and distinctive pulls enhance the splendid quality. A wide selection of pieces enables you to furnish any size bedroom to your own decor and needs. The Sleep Shop carries a good selection of wood and metal daybeds to help you fill up that spare bedroom or dressing room. Need a little extra sleeping surface? All the daybeds at The Sleep Shop can accommodate a pop up trundle unit. Stop in and check out our selection. Futons are quickly becoming the preferred choice for the customer looking to fill up that extra bedroom. By being both a comfortable couch and a soft, supportive bed for overnight guests, the futon offers the perfect solution to make your extra room into a spare bedroom, office, den or playroom.
The Sleep Shop of Appleton has one of the largest selections of futon frames, covers and futon mattresses in stock and on display in the Fox Valley. We carry metal, oak, ash and pine frames from companies like Big Tree Big Sleep, Viking and Coaster. Stop by The Sleep Shop and view our huge selection of futon frames and futon mattresses. For the best in comfort and relaxation, The Sleep Shop of the Fox Cities offers a wide-ranging selection of recliners and glider rockers to fit your personal style. We also carry a full line of lift chairs by MedLift to accommodate various mobility needs – several different models, sizes, features and fabrics are available. And so much more! I’m always trying to clean up my act, but of utmost priority was getting rid of the mold I found growing underneath pad we were using to sleep on. I love floor sleeping for both the firmness of the surface and for the way I have to use my body to get down and back up again. But, I also can’t have mold growing underneath our beds.
So, we decided to build futon platforms based on this futon platform available from Big Apple Futon. (Before you ask, no, I don’t have plans. We just winged it.) Because we’re also trying to create a less toxic home, I decided to skip the polyurethane and make my own sealant out of olive oil and beeswax. I have a friend who is deathly afraid that I will turn crafty and turn KatySays into a crafty blog. I’ve sworn to my friend that I haven’t and I won’t. But still, I had a lot of fun chopping this block of beeswax into small pieces, and adding it to heated oil (for one bed I used sunflower oil and the other olive to make them slightly different colors). Since I find the small movements necessary for crafts tedious, my favorite part was getting the wax onto the wood. The application process was one of the most challenging movement sessions I’ve had in a long time. Think four hours of different squats and arm-reaches, outside in the sun, kids running about the place.
In the comment section of a post I wrote about transitioning to sleeping without a mattress, someone had written something about the off-gassing of the pad I was using. I googled “flame retardants mattresses” and HOLY CRAP. I had no idea about the research on flame-retardants and that they’re found in children and in breast-milk, and are pretty much bad news. (Unless you’re on fire, then I imaging they sound pretty great.) This is just another reason I’m glad our home is furniture (meaning couch and tv-watching chair) free. Furniture is lousy with flame retardants. If you were looking for a reason to go furniture-free, read Flame Retardants Linked to Lower IQs, Hyperactivity in Children. I know, I’m just a flame-retardant free freak. So new objective: find a new mattress that was both thin and firm, as well as chemical-free. We found cotton and wool futon pads from White Lotus Home and now we have these pads up on our futon platforms.Well I definitely preferred sleeping on something really thin and actually on the floor, but I feel like I made a good tradeoff for less chemical and mold exposure.
You could easily sleep on one of these mattresses directly on the floor, but you would need to be diligent about getting it up off the floor every day for airflow. If it was just me, and not a family of four, I imagine I’d be sleeping on the floor and rolling it up each day. Around this time, the huz and I were trying to figure out how to get to bed earlier and stop us from working late (or mindlessly surfing the net). We decided to put our wireless router on a timer that clicked it off at a pre-set time every night. I didn’t realize he had already done this when, after a few days of crazy dreams, I mentioned them. And he agreed that he to had very dynamic bouts of dreaming. Then he mentioned that he had put the timer up a few days beforehand. There haven’t been m(any?) studies on sleeping in a “constant WiFi” environment and dream qualities, although there have been studies on sleep position and geomagnetic activity and how they affect dreams. To be honest, I’d never even considered that my WiFi could be affecting my sleep until I did a literature search as saw that it indeed does (you’ll find links to some articles at the end of this post).