Big and tall people aren’t discriminated upon when it comes to mattress shopping. Usually, the kind of mattress they need are special ones with specific dimensions, so these have to made ordered, instead of being conveniently store bought.

Some people even prefer to own one, for the sake of having a really spacious bed space.

The great thing about these really big mattresses is that they don’t carry exorbitant prices. Some may even come cheaper than regular mattresses.

Visit your favorite home stores and ask if they do custom made mattresses. Check the internet for other offers, you also have to consider shipping and handling, too.

And as with anything, do acquire warranty for the mattress you are about to have made. A good 10 years is enough.

Designed by Daniel Jauslin Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architects (Zurich), the Simple Double Deux bed frame is for a home with small room. The bed can stand as a single or double bed space, good enough to offer two guests a good sleeping area in a 9 x 12 feet room.

“We wanted flexibility. We thought it could be good to have two beds to take the space of one.” This statement, from the designer.

Priced at $3,485 via simpledoubledeux.ch, with separate latext foam mattress.

Declutter your bed space and keep other gadgets and things off the mattress with this bedside saddle.

With five pockets, tt can store many things —- from your clickers, cellphones, iPod and remotes, magazines — and other items you bring to the bed.

It only takes a blanket or comforter to hide the saddle from view.

The bed saddle is made of faux leather.

Via Better Living Through Design

We’ve really got to learn to appreciate what we have, for other people not only lack the right mattress to sleep comfortably; they only have bed nets smelling with insecticide to be able to sleep without worry. And what they worry about isn’t just bed bugs but disease causing insects.

The Global Fund says insecticide-treated bed nets are one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent malaria transmission.

Recently published studies show a combination of bed nets and treatment can reduce malaria transmission by as much as 90 percent in areas with high coverage rates.

Executive director of the Global Fund, Michel Kazatchkine, tells VOA that Zanzibar has just achieved this goal and other countries in Africa also are making significant progress.

“For example, in the southern provinces of Zambia, we now have seen a decrease by 90 percent in malaria deaths between 2001 and 2006,” he said. “In Eritrea, despite the political situation, a 70 percent decline of malaria cases since 2001. In a number of pilot districts in Tanzania where bed nets are distributed and ACT’s are widely given, a decline by over 50 percent in under-five mortality has been observed.”

Dr. Kazatchkine says many countries have reached 60 percent coverage of families. He says mortality or morbidity of small children and pregnant women is significantly reduced in countries that achieve this threshold.

He says countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda have dramatically increased the delivery of bed nets through Global Fund financing.

Via VOA News