FAQ

Sizes go by weight. ono for dogs under 22 lb, kaya for 22–55 lb, nori for 55–100 lb, sora for 100 lb and up.

If your dog sleeps stretched out rather than curled, or sits right at the top of a range, go one size up. The size guide gives you the footprint of each bed so you can tape it out on your floor.

Tell us the breed and weight and we'll recommend a size.

ono 25 × 31 in · kaya 33 × 42 in · nori 41 × 52 in · sora 49 × 62 in. All four are four inches thick.

The shape is uneven, so those are the outer bounds rather than a rectangle.

Go by their combined stretched-out length rather than their weight. For two dogs who sleep together, nori or sora is usually right. If they sleep apart, two beds in the same color look better in a room than one large one.

It does. ono is the right size for most cats; kaya if you have a large cat, or two who share.

Three layers. A high-resilience orthopedic foam core that breathes and keeps its shape. A waterproof fitted liner over the foam. And a cover in a performance linen weave, with a suede-like anti-slip base, that unzips and washes.

Think of the core as a mattress and the cover as the sheets: you wash the sheets and keep the mattress. Covers and liners are sold on their own. Read about the materials.

The foam core does. It's high-resilience foam cut from block foam, and it supports your dog's joints. It springs back instead of sinking, so your dog isn't climbing out of a dent to stand up, and that matters more the older your dog gets.

It's deep enough that the floor never comes through, and it keeps its shape.

Most beds in this category are filled with shredded foam, or with chips bonded into a slab. Both are made from offcuts: the scrap left over when foam is cut for furniture. It's cheap and it feels soft at first, and loose fill moves under a sleeping dog and packs down where they lie.

Ours comes from the other end of that process. High-resilience block foam, the grade made for mattresses and upholstered furniture, cut to shape. It's four inches thick, with no chips and no shredded fill, so all of it is holding your dog up.

It's low on purpose too. There's no bolster to climb over, so an older dog steps on rather than in.

Designed in Nashville, Tennessee, and made in Poland, where our family has been making things for a long time. We roll and pack every bed ourselves, in Tennessee, on the day it ships.

Memory foam works by softening where it's warm, which is also its drawback: it takes on body heat and keeps it, and your dog has to climb out of the dent it makes. Dogs run warmer than we do and cool down mostly by panting.

High-resilience foam is open-celled, so air moves through it, and it springs back instead of sinking. It's the kind of foam made for mattresses and upholstered furniture, rather than the fill found in most pet beds. The figures are on the materials page.

The cover is a heavy upholstery-grade fabric with a tight weave, so claws don't snag the way they do on loops or bouclé, and it unzips and machine-washes.

A determined chewer can get through any fabric, though, and chewing isn't something we can make right. If that's your dog, a spare cover is our recommendation.

Like any upholstery fabric, it'll soften over time in direct sun. If you want the color to stay exactly as it arrived, keep the bed out of a south-facing window. In normal room light it holds well.

Yes, please do. We send you the real fabric free: every colorway, no minimum and no obligation. Order free samples.

A color on a screen is never the color in your room.

Start with your dog's coat. A bed a shade lighter or darker than your dog keeps hair from showing between brushings: oat and dune with cream and light coats, chai and dune with tan, golden and red ones, and flint, mocha and moss with gray, black, brindle and darker coats. A contrast can be beautiful too, like a red coat on moss. It just means brushing a little more often.

Then order the samples and look at them on your floor, in daylight and again in the evening. If you'd like a second opinion, email us a photo of your dog and the room, and we'll tell you which one we'd pick.

A color that's out of stock shows as out of stock on the product page. Choose it there and press "join waitlist", and we'll email you the day it's back.

They are cut from the same fabric in the same six colorways, in three sizes, and sold as covers only. See the pillow covers.

Orders can't be cancelled once placed. If something needs correcting, like the shipping address, write to us right away.

Yes, on a case-by-case basis. Email us with what you have in mind, whether it's a single bed for a client's project or stock for a store, and we'll work out what's possible.

Orders usually leave within a couple of days, and transit is two to five days after that. Full shipping details.

Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico: yes, at the rate you see at checkout. Outside the US we ship on a case-by-case basis. Email us with where you are and what you'd like, and we'll quote shipping and duties.

Lay it flat, right away. It opens up as soon as it's out of the sleeve and settles into its full shape over 24 to 48 hours.

Don't leave it rolled up. The foam is rolled for the journey and needs to be let out as soon as it reaches you.

Give it time, lying flat: it settles into its full shape over 24 to 48 hours.

A faint new-material smell for the first day or two is normal, just the foam airing after being sealed for shipping. It clears in a ventilated room. If it hasn't gone after a few days, tell us.

The foam is in its natural color, anywhere from white to light yellow. The shade can deepen a little with air and light, sometimes unevenly across one core. Where the rounded edge meets the core you may also see a thin bond line, which can be clear, white, pink or red.

None of this changes how the bed feels or how it holds its shape. The liner and cover go over it.

The cover and the waterproof liner both machine-wash cold, with no bleach and no softener, and line or flat dry. Zip the cover closed before it goes in.

The foam never gets wet. If it does, dry it fully before it goes back in the cover. Full care instructions.

Lay the cover on the floor, unzipped and open. Set the foam on it with the indent of the foam lined up with the indent of the cover, then work the fabric up and over the foam a section at a time, holding it by the body of the fabric rather than the seams or edges, and zip it closed.

The liner stretches, but it's a thinner material than the cover, so it needs a gentler hand. Don't pull it by the seam or the edge, and keep nails away from the fabric. Same method, and ease the edge over the foam a little at a time. If it doesn't want to go, the foam isn't lined up, so take it off and start again rather than forcing it.

If it still won't close, send us a photo and we'll check the size.

Yes. The cover comes in all six colors and four sizes, and the liner in four sizes. A worn cover means a new cover, not a new bed.

A spare cover ordered together with a bed is 15% off.

No. The stone nest is final sale, so a bed can't be returned or exchanged once it has shipped. If it arrives damaged, we'll replace it.

We recommend ordering free fabric samples and checking the size guide before you order. Full policy.

Within 30 days, unused, unwashed and in their original packaging, for an exchange or a refund. We email you a prepaid return label, and return shipping is a flat $20, taken off your refund. The original shipping charge isn't refunded.

Start a return from your order, in your confirmation email or your account. Full policy.

Email us within 14 days with photos of the item and of the box it arrived in. Keep everything, including the packaging, until you've heard from us; the carrier may need it. If it's damaged, we replace it.

Yes. Every stone nest cover and liner, whether it came with a bed or was bought on its own, carries a 12-month limited warranty against defects in materials and workmanship, like a seam that comes apart or a zipper that stops working in normal use. Send us photos of the whole cover or liner and of the fault, with your order number. If it's a defect, we'll repair or replace it, and we may ask you to send it back first.

Not covered: the foam core, damage from a pet, fabric that's been punctured or torn, and damage from pulling or stretching a cover or liner by its seams or edges when fitting it. Full policy.

We're Izabela and Austin, a design studio in Nashville. We started bohne studio when we couldn't find a bed for our dog, Lilly, that gave her room to stretch out and still looked right beside our sofa. More about the studio.

A dog circles before lying down. It's an old nesting habit: turn a few times, then settle into a loose curl. That curl is the shape we started from. It isn't a circle and it isn't a rectangle, so the bed isn't either. The outline is rounded and a little uneven, with room to curl up and room to stretch out. From across the room it looks like a smooth river stone, and that's why it's called the stone nest.

We gift a small number of beds to people whose homes are the kind we had in mind when we designed it. Email us your handle and we'll take a look.