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The Super King Bed Buying Behaviour Survey 2026
September 3, 2026

The Super King Bed Buying Behaviour Survey 2026

Super king buyers are not buying a bigger bed so much as buying separation, and our 2026 analysis starts from that. The reason UK households give for moving up to 180 cm x 200 cm is disturbance rather than luxury: different sleep patterns, shift work, a partner who moves in the night. Framed that way, the size becomes a specification decision, and the report sets out what it costs elsewhere in the room. A super king frame is around 190 cm wide and needs 60 cm of clear floor on both long sides to function as a shared bed, rising to 75 cm where a wardrobe or drawer opens into that strip. The report compares king and super king room requirements directly, notes that each sleeper gains the width of a UK single mattress, and warns that staircase access rather than room size is what most often rules a super king out in older UK houses....

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Beds by Region: How Britain’s Tastes Differ
September 2, 2026

Beds by Region: How Britain’s Tastes Differ

The bed a British household buys is decided by the bedroom it has to fit into, and our analysis finds that regional differences in bed buying are really differences in housing. Where homes are larger and newer, king size beds work straightforwardly; where housing is older, denser and tighter, the double and the small double continue to do most of the work, which is exactly the situation the 120cm small double was created to answer. Furniture in Fashion finds that the jump from double to king removes circulation space rather than adding much mattress, that upholstered frames can add 10cm to 15cm per side beyond the mattress dimension, and that staircase access rather than room size is what most often decides between a divan and a flat packed frame in period properties. The report matches bed sizes to workable room dimensions and explains where ottoman storage genuinely earns its place....

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The Double Bed Affordability Report: Wages vs Furniture Prices
September 2, 2026

The Double Bed Affordability Report: Wages vs Furniture Prices

Bed affordability is decided by lifetime cost rather than purchase cost, and our 2026 analysis sets out exactly where that cost concentrates. No official UK series pairs wages with furniture prices, so this report deliberately declines to publish a ratio and examines instead what makes a double bed frame survive or fail: the centre rail and its supporting leg, whether joints are bolted or stapled, and whether slats are sprung and correctly spaced. Frames that cannot be dismantled are written off at the first house move, which makes them expensive whatever they cost. Room size imposes a limit before budget does, and the report gives workable minimum room dimensions for every UK bed size from single to super king. It also explains when an ottoman frame genuinely improves the equation in small bedrooms, and why storage pressure is often mistaken for a bed problem when the room could solve it vertically instead....

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The Mattress Style Map of Britain
September 2, 2026

The Mattress Style Map of Britain

Furniture in Fashion's Mattress Style Map of Britain begins with an honest admission: no national dataset maps mattress preference by region, so this report maps the constraints instead. Our analysis finds that mattress choice across the UK is governed by bedroom floor area, ceiling profile and staircase access rather than by regional taste. The small double at 120 x 190cm persists in older urban housing because it preserves walkways in narrow second bedrooms, while the king size suits the main bedrooms common in newer stock. The report sets out the five standard UK mattress sizes precisely, matches each to the minimum bedroom dimensions needed for usable clearance, and identifies mattress depth as the specification buyers most often overlook, affecting fitted sheet fit, sitting height and whether an ottoman base lifts cleanly. Access, not floor area, emerges as the constraint that most often forces a change of size in period housing....

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The Mattress Price Index 2026: Five Years of UK Data
August 23, 2026

The Mattress Price Index 2026: Five Years of UK Data

No continuous public five year price series exists for UK mattresses, and any figure claiming otherwise should be treated with caution, according to a new report from UK furniture retailer Furniture in Fashion. Rather than estimate a number, the analysis sets out the four factors that actually determine what a mattress costs: standardised UK size, spring or foam construction, filling quality and depth, and how the product is transported. It notes that the Office for National Statistics measures furniture and furnishings within its consumer prices work but publishes no standalone mattress index, and that specification changes make like for like tracking impossible. The report maps every UK mattress size against the bedroom width required for comfortable access, identifies roll packing as the structural change that opened deliveries to narrow staircases and upstairs flats, and advises buyers to specify construction rather than headline spring counts....

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