After spending a good amount of time traveling and mostly using comparably 'hard' surfaces to sleep on, years ago I decided to make myself a rather thin Futon to sleep on.
Buying one made from natural materials would have cost me (pre-University) too much, so I checked how to do this on a budget:
I ended up buying a thin sheet of coconut fibre as well as some kilograms of untreated wool (which I laborously cleaned) off eBay and an insulation material called Thermo Hemp off an ecological construction store. I layered them Hemp - Wool - Coco - Wool - Hemp. Then I bought a large sheet and sewed it around, making some passes through a grid in the middle to keep stuff in place. (Total cost ~150eu, Queen size)
The sleep experience was great - my girlfriend at the time thought it was way too hard but for me it was perfect. However, over time the materials compressed a bit and after about two years I had to put something soft below to make it good again. I should have puffed it up every once in a while to prevent that from happening and perhaps chosen the layers a bit thicker.
Sleeping in bedding of your own making is great and you learn a lot in the process!
After spending a good amount of time traveling and mostly using comparably 'hard' surfaces to sleep on, years ago I decided to make myself a rather thin Futon to sleep on.
Buying one made from natural materials would have cost me (pre-University) too much, so I checked how to do this on a budget:
I ended up buying a thin sheet of coconut fibre as well as some kilograms of untreated wool (which I laborously cleaned) off eBay and an insulation material called Thermo Hemp off an ecological construction store. I layered them Hemp - Wool - Coco - Wool - Hemp. Then I bought a large sheet and sewed it around, making some passes through a grid in the middle to keep stuff in place. (Total cost ~150eu, Queen size)
The sleep experience was great - my girlfriend at the time thought it was way too hard but for me it was perfect. However, over time the materials compressed a bit and after about two years I had to put something soft below to make it good again. I should have puffed it up every once in a while to prevent that from happening and perhaps chosen the layers a bit thicker.
Sleeping in bedding of your own making is great and you learn a lot in the process!