It’s been nearly three years since I first got my Big Fig Mattress and around two and half years since I wrote my first . A lot in my life has changed in those past three years specifically that I fell in love and will soon be married. In terms of my sleep this means that I am sharing my Big Fig every night with my fiance. We are both sleeping better than ever!
Big Fig Mattress has also gone through some big changes over the past three years. They are still the first (and best) mattress designed specifically for plus size sleepers. Their features and construction have not changed but their delivery method has improved! They have always shipped all over the U.S. by relying on delivery partners. Now, the same exact mattress is being flatten and compressed so that it can be shipped via traditional package carriers. Quick ship delivery is always free AND it arrives faster. This means that your Big Fig Mattress will arrive at your doorstop in 3-5 days.
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All of the features that Big Fig Mattress is known for are still present in the new bed in a box. There’s cooling technology, no motion transfer and high density foam that creates edge support. I have been Big Fig’s brand ambassador at a number of plus size focused events. I just want everyone to know! This extends to my plus size loved ones. Over Christmas, I gifted my parents with their first Big Fig Mattress. Now I’ve teamed up with Big Fig to give my best friend, Kristen, a mattress made specifically for a body like hers!
There are but my best advice is if you are trying to figure out how to set up your Big Fig Mattress in a box, start by making sure that there’s two of you to carry the boxes inside your house. The Big Fig Mattress supports up to 1,100 pounds so as you can imagine, the structure that holds that weight is heavy. Take breaks and enlist your strong friends to get these babies upstairs. If you lose the instructions that come in the box, check out the page on the website.
Make sure that you open your Big Fig boxes within one week of receiving it to keep the integrity of the mattress. We set up the bed frame first. It’s made from recycled railroad steel so it’s heavy and also sturdy as heck. The instructions were easy to follow and it took us about 15 minutes to set up. Next, we tackled the foundation.
The foundation comes in pieces of wood. The pieces of wood are clearly labeled so you can tell which pieces go where. The hardest part of putting together the foundation is screwing in all of the slats. There’s no tools required and you can tighten them all by hand. This is not hard if you don’t have long nails (which I do). Kristen did most of ours and that was probably the longest part of the process. It took around 15 minutes. The directions pretty clearly lay this out so if you get confused, refer to the directions. We did try to put the velcro slats on sideways before realizing it didn’t fit because they were going in the wrong direction.
After the wooden foundation is constructed, you stretch the cover over the top. At this point, Kristen’s foundation now looks like the one that I have for my Big Fig Mattress. The next step is to unroll the mattress itself. The Big Fig Mattress features 1600 individually wrapped coils that have just been compressed into a box for a week.
Unlike some other mattresses that come in a box and are foam, the Big Fig doesn’t take long at all to reach its original shape. In fact, because Kristen and I did not cut the two layers of plastic separately as the instructions indicated, the mattress comically pops open as soon as Kristen cut the plastic. If you haven’t watched the video unboxing, definitely do so now! And make sure you follow the instructions which do clearly say cut the OUTER LAYER. Nothing bad happened to us by cutting both at the same time, but it is more alarming if you do that.
After about an hour, Kristen’s Big Fig Mattress was fully assembled! Big Fig suggests waiting a half hour before sitting or sleeping on it. Unlike other bed-in-the-box mattresses, Big Fig takes shape almost immediately so the temptation is definitely there to hop right in for a nap. Kristen slept on her mattress later that evening and she was so pleased with how her bed felt. Unlike her previous mattress which gave her instant back pain, Kristen said her Big Fig actually made her back feel better after only a few night’s of sleep.
Since I have had my Big Fig Mattress for nearly 3 years, I wanted to compare my mattress to the one that Kristen received in a box. We planned a sleepover, got matching pajamas and feel asleep watching Queer Eye. I had no issues falling asleep; I didn’t wake up at all during the night and I didn’t sleep hot. My experience sleeping on Kristen’s Big Fig Mattress in a box was the same as the mattress that I am used to sleeping on. The benefit is that you can now get to your good rest even quicker!
*This post was sponsored by Big Fig Mattress but all thoughts and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links which is one of the ways that I continue to bring you new content!