"Something soft on top for the spare room, and nothing too dear." That's the shopping list the Edwards was made for, and it's Dreams' own answer to it. It's a Dreams Workshop mattress, made at Dreams' own Birmingham bed factory, and every mattress in that range sits on traditional open springs. Within that range this is the one with memory foam: a layer of it and a layer of polyester under a soft knitted cover with classic tufts, graded Medium and 21cm (about 9 inches) deep. The idea is a cosy, foam-topped feel at open-coil money. I've lain on this build in a Dreams shop, and I'm glad you're checking before you buy one.
I tried this bed at Dreams towards the end of October 2026, when it was still sold as the Braybrook. Edwards is the new name, and the build Dreams publishes hasn't changed with it. It felt built to its price. Flat on my back, or face down, it was fine and nothing more. Once I turned onto my side, my shoulder found the springs through the foam. The mattress bounced and moved as one piece, so a partner's every turn would reach you across it, and as a light sleeper I count that as a deal-breaker. Of all the beds I tried, a thin sheet of memory foam over open coil was the cheapest build.
A spare-room bed for a weekend, and that's all
I'd only put the Edwards in a guest room, which is where I'd have put it under its old name too. A Medium suits most of the people who'll ever stay in a spare room, and a visitor here for two or three nights gets a soft knitted top to lie down on and goes home before the springs become their problem. People who bought it as the Braybrook say much the same. One bought it for a guest room and called it "surprisingly comfortable and seemingly well made", and another put it plainly: "Wouldn't want to sleep on it every night but decent guest bed."
The list of people who should walk past it is longer. If you share a bed, the linked springs pass every turn across to the other side. If you wake easily, that movement is the whole problem. Side sleepers using it every night get too little foam between the shoulder and the coils. Plenty of Braybrook owners bought it for a child, and one nine-year-old called it "bouncy, squishy and super comfy", which I can well believe. Open coil is never my pick for a child's main bed, though: put pocket springs under a child's every-night bed.
The Braybrook's build, renamed and dearer
Size for size, the Edwards has the same open springs as before, 288 of them in a double, the same seven layers, the same 21cm depth and weight, and the same Medium grade. It's single-sided, too. Every published layer, spring and measurement matches, so what Braybrook owners say about it is what you'd be buying.
What did change is the price. Dreams has put it up with the name, so you'd now pay more for the same linked springs and the same thin foam. At the old price, for a room that sees guests a few times a year, I could live with that. At the new one, skip it and put the money towards pocket springs at Dreams, which is where I'd spend it.
Soft knit, thin foam, then the coils
What you sleep on, mostly, is the springs. Memory foam is lovely on pressure points when there's enough of it, but here it's one thin sheet, and with so little above the coils they set the feel. Weight changes that less than you'd hope: even a light side sleeper reaches the springs at the shoulder, and heavier sleepers get there sooner.
Owners can't agree on firmness. One loved that "the top is so soft and cosy whilst the springs beneath are sturdy and supportive". Another chose it in store and found it "like a park bench" at home. Too firm is the complaint the unhappy ones make most, some finding it harder at home than in the shop, and the springs themselves come up too, one owner writing of "really noisy springs underneath". Bear in mind a shop model has had half the town lying on it, so expect yours to start out firmer than the one you tried.
Linked coils that move as one
The springs are wired together into a single unit, which is how traditional open coil is made and part of why open coil is the budget way to build a bed. It gives an even, springy surface, and I'll give it that. Press down on one part, though, and its neighbours move with it, so when someone rolls over, you go with them. To my mind that's the case for pocket springs every time, each spring in its own pocket, working on its own. One owner put it gently: "little bit bouncy when partner moves".
Rotate it head to toe, and keep it off an adjustable base
It's single-sided, so you can't turn it over. Dreams wants it spun round, head to foot, weekly while it's new and monthly after its first three months, so one patch of it isn't carrying your weight every night. I'd always rather have a mattress that turns, because two faces share the wear, but a no-turn bed gets judged on what's in it, and here that's one thin layer over linked coils.
Put it on a slatted frame or a flat divan base, and leave it off an adjustable one, which it isn't made to bend with. At 21cm it's an easy fit for ordinary fitted sheets. A double weighs 27kg (about 4st 4lb), which makes it a two-person job on the stairs and whenever you spin it, though one owner with a super king found it "not too thick so easy to get upstairs".
What to buy instead
Buy pocket springs. At Dreams, the bed I'd send you to is the Dream Team Tadley 800: memory foam over a pocket spring unit, Medium and 22cm, which is the Edwards' idea done with springs that move on their own. Wait for a Tadley sale, and then it's the budget bed I'd buy myself. Its foam is thin too and it warms up after a while, but your partner's turns travel far less.
For a back or front sleeper who likes a firm bed, the Dream Team Maidstone 1000 skips foam altogether, with pocket springs under polyester and a tufted damask cover on both faces. Its price moves a lot, so buy it in a sale, and you get a firm bed you can turn over, which you can't do with the Edwards.
