Shredded Latex Pillow – Completely Customizable
We’ve been known to call our Shredded Latex Pillow the “everything pillow” because it’s completely customizable to your comfort preferences. Choose your own fill level — overfilled, slightly plump, hardly full, or anything and everything in between. Arrives overfilled with zipper access to latex compounds.
About 45th ST Bedding
45th Street Bedding founded in Seattle, Washington. Jeff and Wanda Garfield and their three adult sons, Thane, Blake, and Drew created the brand. We opened our first retail store in 1972. Through the years, our business evolved into a destination mattress and bedrooms store. We deliver premier products to the Puget Sound region and far beyond. Furthermore, today we have hospitality and wholesale divisions, along with direct to consumer sales. Our premium quality botanical latex mattress cores — trademarked Botanicore™ — are the foundation of our mattress line.
We launched 45th Street Bedding to meet a need in the marketplace for high quality, durable, gimmick-free bedding products with exceptional value. Everybody deserves to sleep comfortably on products that promote deep rest and don’t compromise their health. Additionally, we make those products available at a range of price points.
As the mattress industry trends ever more toward the ‘disposable goods’ mindset, we choose to use durable, natural materials. These fibers not only give our products increased durability and longevity, but they’re also better for our health (and for the planet) than synthetic alternatives. Not to mention, we save you from the flashy marketing. Also, ignore the stories of ‘magical mattress materials.’ We deliver high quality products done right. Therefore you can enjoy better sleep.
MARGARET R HAAT –
After the latex smell fades (a couple of weeks) I really enjoy the relief I get from sleeping on it. I have some neck issues.
ken d –
I don’t have a latex allergy, but his pillow took a solid year to air out and lose the overwhelmingly terrible ‘rubber balloon smell’ that made it completely unusable for me. I also had to take half of the stuffing out to have a size that worked for my sleeping patterns, but when I did so there was enough latex to make 2 pillows out of the one. This pillow may or may not work for you, depending on your tolerance for sleeping with balloons, and your patience.
Jeff –
While purchasing my mattress at Bedrooms & More, I really loved the pillow they had in the showroom so I bought these pillows at the same time. I was surprised by the size and weight of the pillows I received but I originally thought they would settle and compress. That never happened and only after going back to the store did I learn that I could open them up and remove some of the shredded latex. I wish I had asked the weight of the pillow that I tried in the store so I could have an equivalent at home. I ended up taking enough shredded latex out of the two pillows to fill an IKEA pillow cover with the extra shredded latex to make a full additional pillow. Ending up with three pillows for the price of two is a nice bonus!
The pillows have held up really well, they definitely do not wear out and go flat like so many other types of pillows. Because they were so overstuffed, I only ever ended up using them to hold, somewhat like a body pillow, instead of ever laying my head on them, but I really like them (as does my cat, who will often sleep half on one of the pillows and half on me).
One other thing to note is I did not realize that queen-sized pillows are larger than “regular-size” pillows (I had assumed there were just “regular” size and “king” size pillows). The larger size meant my regular pillow cases do not always cover the whole pillow. I’ve never found queen size pillow cases anywhere except specialty stores. Department and discount stores pretty much just sell standard- and king-sized pillow cases, even in queen-size sheet sets.
I’m only knocking off one star because removing so much shredded latex was really kind of a pain and it ended up all over the place. When you open up one of these pillows to remove some of the stuffing, make sure to do it in a garage or outdoors and be ready with a bag or an empty pillow cover to fill up. Comfort-wise, once you get the filling adjusted to your preference, you will definitely enjoy this pillow for many years.