Dream Bedroom: Smart Tech and Sleep Optimization

The dream bedroom combines smart tech, optimal comfort, and personalized aesthetics for the ultimate sleep experience.

### Creating the Ultimate Smart Bedroom for Optimal Sleep
* 🛏 We're embarking on building the perfect bedroom by exploring smart furniture and technology optimized for sleep, starting with a **smart bedside table** that features **slow charging options**, which we found lacking in modernity.
* 💡 To enhance our minimalistic design, we decided to incorporate a **three-in-one charging station** for devices like our phone, watch, and AirPods, alongside a **scent diffuser** to improve air quality and ambiance.
* 🌬 Air quality is crucial for sleep, especially for those with allergies, leading us to discover an **innovative air purifier that doubles as a plant box**, providing both **natural and electric purification**.
* 🚽 We also explored high-tech bathroom options, including a **luxurious heated toilet** with **customizable settings** and **high-fidelity speakers**, which sparked a conversation about the **extravagant features available in modern toilets**.
* 🛌 After testing various beds, we found a **$1 million Hästens bed** that offers **custom dimensions and luxurious materials** like horsehair, making it a **serious contender for ultimate comfort** despite its hefty price tag.
* 🤔 However, after further reflection, we realized that a combination of a **more affordable mattress** and technology like the **Eight Sleep cover** might provide a **better overall sleep experience**, emphasizing the **importance of sleep technology**.
* 🎨 The bedroom design also incorporates themed guest rooms reflecting our favorite cultures, complete with **decor and scent experiences** that transport guests to **Japan, Turkey, and India**.
* 🛠 Lastly, we implemented smart home features like **Control4 switches for easy lighting control** and a **Roborock vacuum for effortless maintenance**, all while sharing the challenges and successes of creating a **serene and functional sleep space**.

We are about to build our dream bedroom right here. We're going to spend the next 5 minutes shopping, trying to find out what makes the perfect bedroom and then actually turn those elements into a room perfectly optimized for sleep. Let's just type in 'smart bedside table'. Some of this

stuff looks so... They just added LED lights everywhere. Yeah, it seems like all of these smart bedside tables do two things: lighting, which we don't need more of, and then charging, but like really slow, outdated charging. USB-A? What year is this? Oh my God, that's beautiful! I

really like this. This is perfectly boxy; it really fits with the design. Okay, so that's our base. How do we make it actually smart? Okay, so charging: let's get a three-in-one for our phone, watch, and AirPods. So what else do we want in

this room? Because we want to keep this minimal. We want it to smell good, breathe good, sleep good. So we can literally get the same scent diffuser as the living room. There's actually a whole bunch of tech that I've been wanting to get for a

while that I think could take this bedroom to a whole new [Music] level. I found something that I think is perfect for Aon. He can't go to bed at night without watching at least one episode of something, so he's like fiddling with his

laptop on the little bedside table before we go to sleep. And I thought this would be way easier. So it's a bigger screen; you can roll it around, you can roll it next to you when you're watching at night, roll it with you to the

bathroom, if you want to carry on watching, it's worth a try. Cool, good find. Let's focus on air quality then. Yeah, air quality is actually specifically important to me, a) because I've struggled a lot with sleep over the years, but also b) because I have a ton

of allergies. What is the absolute best air purifier we can get? The Air Chip? What? It's the headboard that is chunky, so it's kind of showing how it specifically targets the air cleaner to the area around where you sleep.

We want the entire room purified. Wait, what? It's a plant box? The top is a plant and the bottom is the air purifier? That's pretty cool, cuz in a way it's like dual purification: natural and electric. The plant pot definitely looks better and is vastly more well

suited to the aesthetic of the room, on down. I think this is really nice. I think the idea of a steamer is really handy. I think they're clean, they're simple, so you imagine just kind of hanging clothes up and then using this to iron them. Also, I

was thinking for the bathroom heater/toilet... We took a trip to Japan; every toilet you sat on was heated and it was amazing. What's the most like bonkers toilet you could get? I like the floating aesthetic. Oh my God, it's

$8,699! Now offers personalized settings that let you fine-tune every option. What? What is it? Personalize it? Wow, you are joking! State-of-the-art, high-fidelity speakers? Is our toilet going to have better speakers than our room? Holy... I have never in my life seen a toilet like

This is before okay, and the only thing left is speakers. We've already gone and seen some at Meridian Audio, and they're actually going to get planted into the ceiling, including a subwoofer, so we can [Music] have the most comfortable mattress in the

world. Wait, I slept on a $1 million mattress! Wait, this is the bed that Drake uses—not that I wait that as a particularly strong celebrity endorsement. Oh my God! So the company's called Hästens. I'm actually really curious; there's so many things where you

don't know what you're missing until you've tried it, and so I feel like we should at least try it to know what we're missing. So we did, and we very quickly realized upon visiting these Hästens people that this was not your normal bed

store. Literally, you ask for the bed you want; you can literally pull a figure out of your head and say, "Make it 4m by 4m," and they will do that. Wait, wait—just so you know, 4x4m is for two people, and someone will get

a 4x4m bed. You don't ask questions; no, everything is possible. Okay, so with that absurd image in my mind, time to find out what makes a bed worth, well, anything more than about $1,000, really. You have horsehair pretty much in all the parts,

but the top mattress is almost entirely horsehair. Yeah, horsehair. And according to them, there are two key reasons for it: it's very springy—it's like a ball of springs in all directions—and it smells quite nice. Yeah.  H double di, and she's a vegetarian, but

Also, we learned of a rather haunting fact: the average adult releases 200 mL of sweat per night just sleeping. So the ability to not hold onto that moisture is equally as important. It doesn't really go into it, right? Yeah, if

you did that with human hair, get drenched. Yeah, you'd be drenched. Time to put it to the test, starting with the more entry-level beds that are around $25,000. Whoa! It does; that does hit different. Okay, so pretty normal-looking bed, I gotta say, but the comfort was no joke. It's like a cloud around your body.

It turns out that the beds also come with a bizarre complimentary service. Haston says that for the first few years of using their beds, because it's all natural materials inside designed for

airflow, that you have to keep it fluffed up, and they will send people to your house to do said fluffing. It will most likely be us! Wow! Or someone from my team. That's crazy! Then something popped into my mind: for a long time we've been

using Eight Sleep for our bed. It's like a mattress cover combined with this pod that sits on the floor and pumps temperature-controlled water through it to cool you down to your ideal temperature. These guys are suggesting that with a bed like this, you don't need

that.  Eight Sleep does that for you. Yeah, that's my 'I'm not completely convinced' face. If you put something on top of that, you sort of remove a bit of that breathability function of the actual bed. A lot of that is actually already in

By this point, I think both of our minds were worrying. We didn't really come here with the intention of getting a Hastens bed. And in a way, everything about the way that they think about these things feels a little old-fashioned, like some of the designs of these beds

haven't been updated in 40 years. But then, at the same time, lying on them, moving between our various sleeping positions and feeling both cushioned by these bed toppers and then supported by the horsehair mattresses below them, it was somehow starting to become a genuine

consideration. And then we tested the 'Dream,' one of their higher-end beds. The plushness of everything here is ridiculous! Oh my God, this was like nothing we'd ever laid down on. And also, it only really dawned on us in this moment just how crazy it

was that because each bed is made to order, you can specify the exact dimensions that you want, to the centimeter. What was happening to us? But there's one more: the Big Daddy, the Grand Vividus. This is the bed that Drake uses, and this is literally—it's the caviar of

beds. And by caviar, I mean the Hästens company caviar, who coats everything in gold. The base alone is made with all sorts of fancy materials, including, like, stingray leather. There are only 15 people in the world authorized to make this bed, and it

takes them 600 man-hours to do so. Just making one of these handles that you see on the side takes around 2 days to make. And now it's [Music] time. Me? No, I'm kidding! That's very, very, very comfy. I preferred that one, but this one is also

Really nice. It's not what I expected it to be. I expected, like, it's going to be something that you just sink straight into, but actually, that would make it not a very good bed. It's quite firm, most comfortable.  With the Dream, actually, I wouldn't freely admit what I grappled with

my inner demons and tested a lot of other beds for the entire next week. I trust technology, and so the fact that we could genuinely spend a tenth of Hon's money and get a great mattress plus the Eight Sleep cover on top of that, it felt like the obvious default choice. The more

beds we tested, the more that it started to feel like 10% of the money can get you 90% of the bed experience, but then it's just how much do you value that extra 10%? And to me, I think the

answer is actually a lot when it comes to sleep. So, after much deliberation, I hit the order button on a 215 x 215 cm DreamBed, and now it's all ready. So that's the main master bedroom, but also all the guest bedrooms...

...are finished because I think these are particularly cool because we decided that there are three countries that mean the most to us: Japan, our favorite holiday destination ever; Turkey, the place we got married; and then India, which is where our families originate from. So what we've done is we've themed

each one of these guest rooms after one of them. We've got matching throws, plants, paintings, even a Pikachu-themed room that you're in. And we have had the time of our lives finding just the right soaps, bath mats, toothpaste, and even...

Kidding you not, toilet roll to really immerse people in these themes. Also, every single bathroom has a scent related to the region, so it just takes you there. I miss Japan! And if you're curious, this is what the India bedroom looks like. We decided to embody the rich color

of the country, and the bathroom is themed after Ayurveda, which is an Indian approach to well-being. And then Turkey is all about that Mediterranean freshness; the bathroom is themed after the Turkish hammams, which if you haven't been to one yet, I highly

recommend. And then in terms of the tech, these guest bedrooms are obviously simpler than the master bedroom, but there are still two cool things. So, one is these Samsung Frame TVs, just like in our living room (if you haven't seen that episode yet), but smaller. To be honest,

it's seeing them in the living room that made me realize we wanted them here because they complete the look of the room with the art. People can use them as TVs, with Simple Pleasures. I really like how easy the Samsung remote makes it to get to the three streaming services that

we use the most, and then also Samsung TV Plus, whatever the hell that is. And then, secondly, you might remember these smart switches from the house tour. Well, we have finally had time to figure out what to do with them. So, broadly speaking, we decided that the best way to

not make this house really confusing is for every switch to have the highest button turn all lights in that room to max, and then each button below that makes things dimmer and dimmer. But because these are Control4 buttons, so they're linked to basically everything that can turn on in the

Entire house; it means that, well, you can swap out buttons. So we swapped the bottom one for an up/down switch that people can use to control the blinds. Let's click that now. But it also means that you can hide functionality. Let's say that you

get woken up in the middle of the night and you hear noises coming from downstairs. You can double-press this top button, and it will turn on not just every single light in this room, but every single light in the whole house, and it will start playing a siren from

every single speaker in the whole house. I won't do that now, for obvious reasons. Oh yeah, and then the beds in every guest room are using Simba Hybrid Ultra mattresses. And I missed the cats so much that I had to get a mattress named after

them. They're on the firmer side, but they're very supportive, which means that when you pair them with a soft mattress topper like this, it's bliss. No one ever wants to get out. But then also, it's a bit of a Russian nesting doll situation with

these beds. So we specifically went for ottoman-style beds because when even more guests come over, we just pull them up, and we can whip out three more double beds. And we actually did quite a lot of testing before deciding that these things are the gold standard when it

comes to airbeds because they're from a company called Lost Horizons. And the thing that is particularly cool about them is they're a combination of air, but also really high-density foam. So they are ridiculously comfortable for how thin they are, and also they self-inflate.

When you want to use them, and then when you're done with them, they come with this air pump that just takes the air back out again. It makes it very easy. All right, but obviously the guest bedrooms are pretty simple compared to the master bedroom that we use, so let's do a quick

review of the key items that I think make this room special. I'm going to give you my honest thoughts, having now used this frankly ludicrous Hästens bed for a bit of time, and then I'm going to show you what might well be the biggest purchase mistake I have ever made in my

life. It made me want to put my head through a wall. Oh yeah, just before we go into that, this is a Control4 touchscreen. It's pretty much the control center of the home and it works well, but I also can't help but feel like it looks

and functions like a smartphone operating system from the year 2008, which is why we're using this app called Homie that sits as a layer above and is a lot more intuitive. And then this is the Roborock S7 Slim. It's a robot

vacuum with some pretty unique skills, and we've picked it mostly because it is slim enough such that it can fit under every single one of the beds, which gives us one less thing that we need to maintain. Right, let's dive in. Now, if you

watched our empty house tour, you'll know that the single objective while putting this room together was just: how do we get the best sleep humanly possible? It is amazing how much good sleep can change your life, and there are two key ways that we focused on achieving that.

The indirect effect is making the space as decluttered and automated as possible, to make it feel like all we need to do when we come into this room is rest. Then the direct effect is finding products that physically help us sleep better.

Let's start with one of the biggest ways to declutter your entire life: a charging station. Setting all of this up cost me about $30 and 3 hours. This is a simple cable organizer box from Amazon, which is where all our sockets are. Then this is

just cable trunking, which makes sure the cables are only visible when necessary. I cannot recommend this enough if you have lots of gadgets. Try setting up one of these because it means we automatically know where every product

is at all times. It means you can barely see any cables; every product is automatically always charged. This does a lot for that feeling of peace you particularly want in a bedroom, and it looks a lot better than the alternative.

As for the gadgets themselves, let's do a rapid-fire review. The Therabody is basically a less powerful body massager, but with a whole load of attachments that make it more suited to your face. It's expensive for what it is, but this thing is so effective at

getting rid of headaches and specific migraines. It makes you feel good while making you feel like you're doing good. 9 out of 10. This helmet, which looks like it's from the year 2200, is the Wayon Imic. It actually came with the massage

chair that we got for the living room, and this is basically the hardcore version of that. I'm one of those people where when I get a massage, I want to feel like there's someone snapping me in half, and this does that. It's very firm. I'd give this an 8. The Pivo 2...

like, for any item of clothing that's a little bit fuzzy or just one that gets dusty quickly, you just swipe this over, and it's got six tiny little razor blades inside of it that trim it without cutting it. Seven out of 10. We're always

glad we have this when we suddenly realize that we need it. Oh yeah, I love this toothbrush! It's right on that upper limit of feeling like it has enough power that it's really thoroughly cleaning you, but just not so much that it feels like you've just erased your

enamel. Not to mention wireless charging on the brush itself and USB-C charging on the case, which is always a big plus. 8 out of 10. I also always use a water flosser just before brushing; it's just a really fast way of getting rid of those rogue

food particles that would otherwise get stuck, or a refreshing pre-bed beverage. I think these are really slept on—pun not intended—9 out of 10. Oh yeah, you like this. While I long for the day where every single battery of every single gadget is fully rechargeable, for the

gadgets that aren't, we have finally got our battery act together. So this is a battery organizer. You can get them for like $20 on Amazon, and this is not just soul-fulfilling and satisfying, but it's also really useful because you know for sure

that you have every battery, and then you have a really clear, at-a-glance way of seeing if you don't. Now, also, in the vein of slightly OCD things that put my mind at ease while making this bedroom video, we have pretty much fallen in love with

a site called Joseph Joseph. It's just this unending stream of products that you see and you're just like, "Why didn't I think of that?" So, for example, we went through a few different hangers until we eventually decided that the ones from Joseph Joseph are just perfect. They keep

both parts of your outfit together in a way that you can also just take off and wear one. And then these rail spaces up here are something that I never even thought about before I saw them, but let me tell you, it was worth it. By making sure that every single item of clothing is

exactly the same distance apart, without you needing to get your roller out each time you put something away, it makes it so easy to keep the cabinets clean. Oh, and also they come in two sizes, so we got the regular size spaces for the more casual clothes, and then if we come to

the end over here, this is the formal cabinet where we have the large size spaces, which, as you can tell, I am making the most of. The other thing that I really like here is this steamer. So this is from the same company who made the

p-o-i in the other cabinet, and it's not quite enough to get your clothes to 100%, you know, when you want your shirt to look so crisp that it could cut someone, but it does iron clothes to the 95% mark with about 20% of the effort.

because all I need to do is power it on and then brush it down the clothes while they're still on their hangers. Oh, and then for all the products that we use regularly, I decided it just makes sense to go out once and buy them in

bulk and just make a little top-up station, kind of like a survival shelter, but you know, for silky smooth skin. Okay, so that's all my pedantic storage stuff. Now for the things we actually keep out. So, very quickly, this is Disa's dressing table, so there's all her makeup in here.

This is also using Joseph Joseph organizers, and then my plan for this drawer is to have all of her hair dryers and straighteners, but in a way so that it's wired into the mains all the time by drilling a hole in the back of this

and routing the cable down here. But that's just me. And then this is the air purifier that we've ended up with. We went on a bit of a loop with this one, as you saw. We bought these plant pot ones initially from a company called Duux.

And they were cool in concept, but they just felt cheap and not very good at either being a plant pot or an air filter. Then we got this one from a company called Molekule. Way slicker, really powerful, and also beautiful. It just fit the room perfectly, but it just

kept waking us up at night, even when we specifically put it onto its quiet setting. It would just randomly decide at 3:00 a.m. that turning up its suction to 11 to ingest one rogue dust particle was more important than our sleep. And so

We ended up landing on the Big + Quiet filter by Dyson. When I first saw it, I was like, "That's a stupid name for a product." Then you use it and you realize, oh, it's big and it's quiet. So, in terms of blinds, we've got

the same Luxaflex company making them as we do in the living room downstairs. But in all the bedrooms, we've got ones fitted with an extra layer of fabric that makes them blackout blinds to completely kill the light and also cut down on a further 20% of outside noise.

And I would say I love the way these work. You can control them on your phone; they practically disappear when they're up, and they look really clean when they're down. The only annoying thing is you need these little hubs so that they can be communicated with, and the bigger

your house, the more hubs you need. So we had to get and hide a total of nine of these in our various different rooms, which is a little bit of a pain. And now, just for my infuriating mistake, let's talk about the bed area. So we went for

two snake plants, one on each side. I love these things; I think they look spicy. And yeah, you'd need a lot of them to significantly change the air quality in a room, but they do make a difference. And I think even just psychologically, feeling like you have that extra bit of

freshness and oxygen from a real plant is good for you. You might have noticed that the bedside tables have changed since the ones that you originally saw us use. We had to go through like four different sets of them because some of them had drawers that didn't close.

Nicely, some of them weren't tall enough to properly cover the sockets in the room. Until eventually, we found these ones from Andrew Martin that are far more expensive than what we wanted to spend on bedside tables, but they ticked every box anyway. The most important

thing is what is on them. So you'll notice on mine, we have ended up with an iPad here. And this is another one of those things that has taken multiple attempts to get right, because if you remember, for a long time I used to bring my laptop into the bedroom to watch some

sort of American sitcom just before bed. They knock me straight out. Then Trisha had this idea of the LG StanbyME, this rollable TV, which we bought. We tested it, and in a way, it was amazing. I was used to a 14-inch screen; suddenly having 27 was

crazy, but it actually wasn't ideal for two reasons. One, that the larger your screen, the further back you have to put it, and then the further back you have to put it, the louder it's got to be, which actually doesn't really work because I'm

at the lowest risk of disturbing Trisha if I actually have a quieter speaker that's just closer to me. But then the even bigger issue was minimum brightness; the TV just wasn't low enough. Whereas on this iPad Pro, you can go extremely low, and also on top of that, use Night

Shift mode to further reduce the amount of blue light. And so yes, it is a bit excessive to have an iPad that just sits here when I already own a MacBook that largely does the same thing, but I just decided that this is important to me.

Because it means that I can leave my laptop, and therefore my work, downstairs before coming to the bedroom. And this iPad isn't even logged into anything apart from relaxing stuff, so it helps me to associate this room with switching off. Now, this charger is another one of those...

awesome situations where we'd already decided that we loved ESR before the company reached out and asked to sponsor this video. And the reason we picked these is pretty simple: we originally bought Amazon Echo devices for each bedroom because we thought, yeah, it'd be really

nice for people to have a clock, but it's only after buying those that we remembered the iPhone standby mode is basically the same thing, but better. So what we're actually looking for is just a really good charger that can hold people's iPhones sideways while charging.

to activate this mode. And this is that while being the fastest iPhone MagSafe charger, it finishes around 30 minutes faster than other chargers because of something called CryoBoost. Every phone has a safety mechanism built in such that when they get hot, they

reduce their rate of charging, but that isn't so much of an issue when your charger is also the thing that cools your phone, especially if you're watching videos or FaceTiming while charging. And then to top the whole thing off, it's charging my watch at the back and now

it's charging my AirPods at the front. And it can charge the watch faster than other non-Apple certified brands while being quite a bit cheaper than official Apple stuff. Link below for more. So that's my side of the bed. What about your side of the bed?

Level with you, I think we might have made a mistake here, and this isn't even our biggest mistake. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this isn't a glorious sleeping experience, and the fact that the thing is 215 by 215 means

you could practically sleep four people here. The thing is, though, after ordering this, I just recently set up all of my family back home with the newest Eight Sleep bed covers, and I was looking at the feature set of these things thinking, "Damn, this doesn't do any of that." I mean,

as well as the normal ability to adjust temperature, it can now even lift your mattress up and down to stop you snoring in the night without waking the other person up. But you can't get Eight Sleep for a bed like this, and so it's

left me in this position where I think this is the absolute pinnacle of beds without technology, but it feels like there is also a ceiling for how good a bed can be without that technology. So, to put it another way, I'm very happy and very grateful that we've been able to

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Designing a Smart Bedroom Optimized for Sleep

Goal: Create a bedroom optimized for sleep using smart technology.

Initial focus on smart bedside table with adequate charging capabilities.

Selection of a three-in-one charger for phone, watch, and AirPods.

Prioritization of minimal design, pleasant scent, and good air quality.

Inclusion of a portable screen for nighttime entertainment.

Prioritizing Air Quality and Bedroom Aesthetics

Importance of air quality due to sleep issues and allergies.

Exploration of air purifier options, including a unique plant-pot air purifier.

Preference for aesthetically pleasing air purifier design.

Consideration of a clothes steamer for convenience.

Discussion of high-end heated toilet with advanced features.

Installation of ceiling speakers including a subwoofer.

Exploration of Hästens mattress customization options.

Discussion of horsehair mattress material properties.

Importance of moisture-wicking properties in the mattress.

Hästens' complimentary mattress fluffing service.

Evaluating Hästens Mattresses and Alternatives

Initial hesitation towards Hästens due to traditional design and high cost.

Changing perception after experiencing the comfort of Hästens mattresses.

Highlighting the customizable dimensions of Hästens beds.

Description of the high-end 'Grand Vividus' mattress.

Comparison of Hästens with more affordable options like Simba Hybrid Ultra and Eight Sleep.

Cost-benefit analysis of high-end vs. budget-friendly mattresses.

Theming of guest bedrooms based on significant countries (Japan, Turkey, India).

Detailed description of themed decor and amenities in each guest room.

Focus on regional-themed bathrooms (Ayurveda, Turkish Hammam).

Inclusion of Samsung Frame TVs and smart switches in guest bedrooms.

Explanation of smart switch functionality and customization.

Use of Simba Hybrid Ultra mattresses and ottoman-style beds for extra guests.

Honest review of the Hästens bed after prolonged use.

Discussion of Control4 touchscreen and Homie app integration.

Highlighting the Roborock S7 Slim robot vacuum's unique features.

Emphasis on decluttering and automation for better sleep.

Focus on products that directly improve sleep quality.

Description of a DIY charging station setup for improved organization.

Review of various gadgets: Therabody, Wayon Imic, Pivo 2, toothbrush, water flosser.

Organization of batteries using a battery organizer.

Use of Joseph Joseph products for storage and organization.

Discussion of makeup storage and air purifier selection process.

Review of Luxaflex blackout blinds and their functionality.

Discussion of snake plants for air quality improvement.

Selection and justification of using an iPad instead of a laptop for nighttime entertainment.

Explanation of choosing ESR chargers for iPhones and other devices.

Reflection on potential mistake of choosing Hästens bed over Eight Sleep system.

Description of climate control setup in the bedroom.

Review of Drisha's Kindle Paperwhite and its features.

Discussion of the Pokémon-themed bath bombs.

Detailed explanation of the toilet installation issue and subsequent solution.