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How to Guides

Welcome to our collection of Odd Company How-To Guides, your complete resource for product care, assembly, and fitting instructions. These are here to help you look after your product in the best way and to provide step by step instructions for fitting and assembly.

Helpful Product Guides

How to & Care Guides

Each guide is designed to help you look after your bed, mattress, or headboard, and includes clear, step-by-step instructions for assembling or installing your product with confidence. Whether you’re fitting an antique bed base, mounting a headboard, or caring for your luxury mattress, our guides ensure you get the very best from your Odd Company product.

If you can’t find the information you’re looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly, we are always happy to help.

How to care for your new mattress

This guide provides the essential steps to care for your handmade mattress, ensuring it remains supportive, comfortable, and hygienic for years to come. It includes:

  • How often to turn or rotate your mattress
  • Tips for airing and cleaning natural fillings
  • The best mattress protectors to use

Wall Mounted Headboard Fixing Guide

How to assemble your bed base

This step by step guide includes detailed instructions to make it simple to assemble your Odd Company bed base correctly and safely. Following this guide ensures a solid, level base that supports your mattress perfectly.

Antique Bed Base Assembly Guide

How to fix your wall mounted headboard

This guide explains exactly how to mount your headboard securely and at the perfect height. You’ll learn how to measure and mark the correct wall position, choose suitable fixings for your wall type, and safely secure the headboard brackets.

Wall Mounted Headboard Fixing Guide

How to fit your strut mounted headboard

Attaching a strut mounted headboard is a simple task once you know the correct technique. This guide explains how to position the headboard at the right height, align it carefully with your bed base, and tighten the bolts to keep everything secure.

Strut Mounted Headboard Fixing Guide

Made to last

Every Odd Company mattress, bed and headboard is crafted in our Yorkshire workshop from natural materials, using traditional techniques perfected over generations.
We are extremely confident in the quality of components and workmanship that go into everything we make and we are therefore happy to provide a 10 year guarantee on all our mattresses, divan beds and headboards. 

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