Arricca SanSone is a home and lifestyle writer. When your parents or grandparents bought a mattress, it likely came as a set with a box spring. But box springs have become far less common in the last ...

Once upon a time you couldn't purchase a mattress without a box spring. Today, box springs are all but obsolete, reserved ...

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For years, it has been a common approach to use a box spring to support your bed. It's been the go-to solution to ensure you don't wake up with a sore back. However, mattresses and beds have evolved, ...

We tried Real Sleep by Real Simple, a new mattress in a box, to see if it could really replace a spring mattress Maria Mercedes Lara is the Senior Director of Digital Content Operations for PEOPLE.

There was once a time when purchasing a new mattress without a matching box spring was almost unimaginable. When inner coil mattresses dominated the market, a box spring was considered an essential ...