Not everyone wants a mattress with a long list of tricks. A lot of shoppers just want a medium bed that's comfortable the night it arrives and needs no explaining, and that is the gap the Silentnight Revitalise Restore 1600 is built to fill at Furniture Village. It's one of four Revitalise mattresses that Silentnight makes for Furniture Village alone, with a quilted fibre top over pocket springs, 27cm (about 11in) deep and graded Medium. Lie down and the top gives a little under your shoulder before the springs come up to meet it. You're lying on the bed, with no slow foam sink to climb out of when you turn, and that's exactly how an everyday medium should feel.
Where it sits in the range is simple. The Revitalise Refresh 800 is Firm and the Revitalise Ortho 1400 is Extra firm, so the Restore is where the range turns medium. The only other Medium is the Revitalise Breathe 3000 Pillowtop, which has a soft top sewn on, while the Restore is quilted flat to the edge. If you want a Revitalise that isn't firm and has nothing sewn on top, that one difference sends you here.
Back sleepers of average weight are the easy fit. So are combination sleepers who roll from back to side in the night, because springs under a fibre top let you turn without hauling yourself out of a dip, and an average-build side sleeper will be comfortable on it too. Give it a miss as a side sleeper under about nine stone hoping to sink in, at more than about eighteen stone, or as a front sleeper, because a medium lets your hips drop when you lie face down.
The Restore's top is quilted fibre, and it breathes
Silentnight calls the comfort layer ActiveBreathe and says it feels like memory foam. It's a fibre, quilted into the top panel, and it feels different from foam once you're on it. You get cushioning on the surface and a quick, springy push back, with none of memory foam's slow settle around your hip. That's good news if memory foam leaves you feeling stuck, and less good if what you loved in the shop was being hugged.
Fibre lets air move through it far more easily than a solid slab of foam, so the Restore sleeps fresher than a memory foam bed. Very hot sleepers should still know what's in it: the fillings are polyester and ActiveBreathe fibre, all synthetic, and when someone tells me they wake up cooking, I send them to springs with wool or cotton over them. For most people it sleeps at a comfortable temperature, and a lighter duvet in summer does the rest.
600 pocket springs plus 1,000 minis make the 1600
Give the springs their due first. They're Mirapocket, Silentnight's own take on the pocket spring and not quite the same as a standard pocket unit. Each spring is sewn into its own fabric pocket, which lets it move without dragging its neighbours, and a partner's turning stays mostly on their side. To me it sleeps much like any good pocket spring, which is a compliment, though I wouldn't pay extra for the name. I find Silentnight bland, and nothing about the Restore is going to make anyone gasp on the shop floor. For a bed you want to forget about and sleep on, plain suits it.
The 1600 in the name is two counts added together: 600 pocket springs and 1,000 mini springs in a king. The minis are small springs that add give, and the 600 are the full-size ones that hold you up. For a king, 600 full-size springs is on the light side, and both firmer Revitalise beds carry more of them, 800 in the Refresh and 1,400 in the Ortho. The top sets the grade here, not the count: the Breathe 3000 carries 2,000 full-size springs and is Medium too. A heavy sleeper wants full-size springs under them, though, and that's why I'd send one to the Ortho 1400.
The springs are zoned as well. Zoning is a sensible idea when the zones line up with your body, which for an average-height adult they will. Very tall or very short sleepers can land in the wrong zone on any zoned bed, and they're the ones who should lie on it before they buy.
Which Revitalise mattress should you buy?
For most people who want medium, the Restore. Only heavy people who sleep face up or face down truly need extra firm, and the old "firmer is better for your back" line sends plenty of people home with the wrong bed. So take the Ortho 1400 if you're heavy and sleep on your back, knowing it's the thinnest of the four at 25.5cm. Front sleepers of average weight do better on the Refresh 800, which keeps the hips up.
I'd point you away from the Breathe 3000 Pillowtop, and it's no slight on the rest of the bed. It's the deepest of the four at 34cm and carries 2,000 full-size pocket springs alongside its 1,000 minis in a king, which is a proper amount of spring. The trouble is the top. It's sewn on, and in my experience a sewn-on top goes softer long before the springs under it. You can't turn the bed over to give it a rest, either. Love the Breathe in the shop and the Restore gives you the same grade on a flat quilted top, with no separate cushion to flatten.
Owners like the support and the plush top
The owner reviews back up that pairing of good support underneath and some softness on top. One calls the cushioned top over the springs "a brilliant combination, offering good support with a plush feel" and says they sleep like a log on it, and another calls it the best mattress they've ever bought, pocket springs and all. That's exactly the feel the build promises, springs doing the holding and the quilting doing the cushioning, and it's the right mix for an everyday medium.
One owner calls it very well priced. I'd agree on a good sale price and not otherwise. Furniture Village is pricey, to my mind, and the Restore's price swings a long way up and down, so wait for one of its lower moments before you buy.
The Restore is one-sided and wants slats no more than 7.5cm apart
It's built one face up. I'll always prefer a mattress you can flip, since two faces share the wear, and calling no-turn a feature has never convinced me: it saves the maker work. With the Restore you swing it round end to end regularly instead, so you're not lying in exactly the same spot every night.
Measure your base before it's delivered. Furniture Village wants slats no more than 7.5cm (about 3in) apart, because wider gaps let the mattress sag into them and can void its guarantee. When a mattress dips, I check for wide or broken slats before I blame the mattress itself.
Give it four hours to air once it's out of its wrapping, then let it breathe from day to day. Of all the housekeeping I recommend, the hour with the duvet pulled back each morning is the part I mostly keep to, and a fibre top dries out and stays fresher for it. A protector goes on before you first sleep on it, too: Furniture Village refuses returns on a mattress used without one, and it charges to collect a return. Better to choose well in the shop: the Revitalise range is on show in some Furniture Village stores, and ten minutes lying the way you sleep will rule out the wrong grade.
What to buy instead
For side sleepers after more sink, and couples with one restless half, the better bed at Furniture Village is the Mlily Hybrid Gel 3000. It's the same 27cm depth and the same Medium grade, with gel memory foam on top where the Restore has fibre, so your shoulder goes further in and the foam soaks up a restless partner far better than springs under fibre. It runs warmer than the Restore, and the gel takes some of the edge off that.
If you're heavy and sleep on your back, stay in the range and buy the Revitalise Ortho 1400. For everyone else who wants an easy, springy medium at Furniture Village, buy the Restore, on a sale price.
