The bed in Nancy Gerrish’s bright Los Feliz home appears perfectly normal — carved wooden headboard, fuzzy brown blanket, cream-colored bed skirt. The sheets are a tasteful leopard print. A few ...

Whatever you do, don’t call it a waterbed. The Wavy Gravy-era fixture evokes a time when the free flow, water-filled mattresses were closely associated with shag carpet and bead curtains. These days, ...

The bed in Nancy Gerrish’s bright Los Feliz home appears perfectly normal — carved wooden headboard, fuzzy brown blanket, cream-colored bed skirt. The sheets are a tasteful leopard print. A few ...

At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia. By the 90s, demand had collapsed and waterbeds were left with a reputation of being daggy, a ...

After a flood of recognition in the late 1960s, Charles Hall, the San Francisco State University student who invented the waterbed and launched a new wave in mattresses, has quietly slipped from the ...

I have a new waterbed mattress that has a very strong vinyl odor. It’s been over a week and it still smells. Do you have any suggestions? “The vinyl is ‘outgassing.’ A recommended approach is to ...