I built the Dream Smart Bedroom!

We are about to build our dream bedroom right here. We're going to spend the next five minutes shopping, trying to find out what makes the perfect bedroom, and then actually turn those elements into a room perfectly optimised for sleep. Let's just type in smart bedside table. Some of this stuff looks so naff. 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 But, like, really slow, outdated charging.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. It's perfectly boxy. It really fits with the design. Okay, so that's our base. How do we make it actually smart? Okay, so chargings. Let's get a 3-in-1 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. 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 level. I found something that I think is perfect for you. Aaron can't go to bed at night without watching at least one episode of something. So he's, like, fiddling 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. 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 tulip. 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 pot. The top is a pot and the bottom is the air purifier. That's pretty cool, because 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. I'm 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. Heated 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 $8,625. Now offers personalized settings that let you fine-tune every option. What? What is it personalized? 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 before. Again, 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 have... 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 weight that as a particularly strong celebrity endorsement. Oh my God. So the company's called Hastins. 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 Hastins people that this was not your normal bed store. Literally, you ask for the bed you want, you can literally pull a figure out your head and say, make it four meters by four meters, and they will do that. Wait, just to check, so four by four meters is for two people? You mean someone will get a four by four meter 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 horse hair pretty much in all the parts, but the top mattress is almost entirely horse hair. Yeah, horse hair. 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. It smells quite nice. Yeah, it's like, hmm. Double dipped. And she's a vegetarian. But also that we learned of a rather haunting fact that the average adult releases 200 milliliters of sweat per night just sleeping. And 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- It would 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. Oh, it does, that does hit the fruit. Okay, so pretty normal looking bed, I've got to say, but the comfort was no joke. It's like a cloud around your body. And 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. The worst hair does that for you. Hmm. 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's actually already in the bed. At this point, I think both of our minds were worrying. We didn't really come here with the intention of getting a Haston's 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. Then at the same time, lying on them, moving in 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 Dreamer, 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 clone company, Caviar, who coats everything in gold. The base alone is made with all sorts of fancy materials, including like stingray leather. There's 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 two days to make. And now it's time. 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 measured. Who's comfortable with the dream one? Actually, one for you. Wait, 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 10th of Haston'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 to 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 by 215 centimeter Dreamer bed. And now it's all ready. So that's the main master bedroom, but also all the guest bedrooms. And let's actually start there because I think these are particularly cool because we decided that there's 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 trees, plants, paintings, even a Pikachu themed to the room that you're in. And we have had the time of our lives finding just the right soaps, bath mats, toothpaste, and even, I kid 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. And the bathroom is themed after the Turkish Ramans, 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's still two cool things. So one is the Samsung frame TVs, just like in our living room, if you haven't seen that episode yet, but smaller. And 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 control four 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 for an up-down switch that people can use to control blinds. So let's click that now. But it also means that you can hide functionality. So 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. I miss 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, 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 quick reviews of the key items that I think make this room special. I'm gonna give you my honest thoughts having now used this frankly ludicrous Hastings bed for a bit of time. And then I'm gonna show you what might well be the biggest purchase mistake I've ever made in my life. It made me want to put my head through a wall. Oh yeah, just before we go into there, this is a Control 4 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 Homey that sits as a layer above and is a lot more intuitive. And then this is the Roborock Qrevo 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. All 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's two key ways that we focused on achieving that. The indirect effect, which is just making the space as decluttered and automatic as possible to make it feel like all we need to do when we come into this room is to rest. And then the direct effect, which is finding products that are physically helping us to sleep better. So let's start with one of the biggest ways to declutter, well, your entire life really, a charging station. Setting all of this up cost me about $30 and three hours. Like this is just a simple cable organizer box from Amazon, which is where all our sockets are. And then this is just cable trunking, which makes sure that the cables are only visible when they absolutely need to be. And I cannot recommend more if you have lots of gadgets like this to try and set up one of these because it means we automatically know where every product is all the time. It means that you can barely see any cables. It means that every single product we know is automatically always charged. This does a lot for that feeling of peace that 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. So the TheraFace is basically just 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, nine out of 10. This helmet that looks like it's from the year 2200 is the Weyron iMedic. 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 wanna feel like there's someone snapping me in half, and this does that. It's very firm. I'd give these an eight. The Pylo 2 is 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 the 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 then USB-C charging on the case, which is always a big tick. Eight 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. Nine out of 10. Oh yeah, you'll 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 app together. So this is a battery organizer. You can get them for like $20 on Amazon. And this is not just soul-fulfillingly 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 eventually deciding 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 tell me it wasn't worth it. By making sure that every single item of clothing is exactly the same distance apart without you needing to get your ruler 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've 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 pylo in the other cabinet. And it's not quite enough to get your clothes to the 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 to power it on and then brush it down the clothes while they're still on the 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 Drisha'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 Dupre, 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 Molecule. 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 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 Plus Quiet Filter by Dyson, which 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 away 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 before 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 the extra bit of freshness and oxygen from a real plant is good for you. You might've noticed that the bedside tables have changed since the ones that you originally saw us buy. 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 tick 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 have 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 Drisha had this idea of the LG Stand By Me, this rollable TV, which we bought, we tested, 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 Drisha if I actually have a quieter speaker that's just closer to me. But then the even bigger issue was minimum brightness. The TVs just wasn't low enough. Whereas on this iPad Pro, you can go extremely low. And also on top of that to 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 switch 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 Echoes 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, which is better. So what we're actually looking for is just a really good charger that can hold people's iPhone sideways while charging to activate this mode. And this is that. While being the fastest iPhone Qi 2 MagSafe charging, it finishes around 30 minutes faster than other chargers because of something called Cryo Boost. 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 the bed? Okay, I'm gonna 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 is not 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 8Sleep 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 like lift your mattress up and down to stop you snoring in the night without waking the other person up. But you can't get 8Sleep 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 get this bed. But at the same time, if I were to do it again from scratch, I would probably get one of the Simba hybrid ultra mattresses that we have in the other rooms, stick an 8Sleep cover on top, spend a fraction of what we have on this and sleep just as well, if not better. There's speakers in the ceilings. There's aircon right above here. And we use that to set this room to 18 degrees C. You sleep better if the room is cool. You don't sleep at all if the room is cold. So that's where we settled. And then on Drisha's side, this is the new 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite. I don't know how we've had 12 generations of this thing, but this is actually really nice because it wirelessly charges on this stand here. The screen is much more responsive than Kindles from the early days. And the benefit of this is that she can read at night without casting any light towards me while I'm trying to sleep. Plus, we've also set it to automatically reduce the amount of blue light for when she's reading at night, which again, keeps sleep intact. And then this is the same ritual scent diffuser that we got in the living room downstairs. So that is the sleep area. There's no rugs because in our experience, they just trap allergens. And there's no desks because, well, we're specifically trying to keep work out. Oh yeah, this. So from the beginning, I knew that I wanted to have a really big, bold, colorful art piece here. But every single one I could find was either literally more expensive than this bed or just terrible. Like I hated it. So yesterday I decided to go to a craft store, buy a load of spray paints and just literally just make this myself. I call it Think Very Different. I'll let you stew on that one. And then this is the Xiaomi nightlight from that crazy Xiaomi gadgets video. I just loved it so much that I've actually set one up in every bedroom. Right, you ready to see my big blunder now? Okay, in the bathroom. Oh, by the way, I thought this was really cool. If you've ever played a Pokemon game, you will know that you have six Pokemon in your party. This is six bath bombs and inside each bath bomb is a Pokemon. So over time we'll learn who our party is. So the issue has been the Noomi toilet that you saw us buy. It wasn't available in the UK, so we ordered it from the US and it arrived. It's just that when it arrived, we realized that because it's a US toilet, the water supply pipe connects down through the floor. Whereas here in the UK, it's more typical to have it coming out into the wall. And in this particular situation, there was no way of retrofitting it. So we basically had to say one giant L and buy a completely different toilet. I spent $10,000 on that one. On the bright side, the one that we ended up getting, the Jebrit AquaClean Mirror is actually also amazing. It's got a nightlight and motion sensor baked in. So you literally walk up to the toilet, it turns on this soft light and the lid opens. There's the fact that the second you sit down, a deodorizer starts, which I assume a lot of people will also like because it masks the noise. The seat starts heating up. There's a full magnetic remote control. There's a customizable bidet. This is so cool. The flush creates a whirlpool on the inside for maximum cleaning efficacy. So it all worked out in the end. I can't actually believe that we get to stay here. So next weekend is the kitchen video. And for now, good night.