To wonder why I cant buy bedding for a Queen size bed!!

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Or is it just me being a muppet? The frustration, Harry Corry, Argos the whole heap! any clue?

Ta

What size is your bed?

Normally Kingsize in the UK is a 5ft bed, so I'd assume your Queensize bed is a 4ft 6.

You need to measure it!

Sorry, 4ft 6 is therefore a UK Double bed

How big is the bed in actual fact? If its 5ft thats what a lot of companies call a King in the uk. www.linencupboard.co.uk/?gclid=CI6khuWB7qwCFdQhtAodunUYyw has lots of sizes of bed linen.

Where are you located, OP?

As far as I'm aware there isn't a Queen Size bed in the UK. A US Queen Size bed is the same as a UK King Size bed. (And a US King Size bed is 6ft.)

By Queensize do you mean a UK queensize - 6ft/superking?

I used to have a bed that large and got my bedding from M&S. I know the white company sell bedding for that size too (and emperor!).

A queensized bed is smaller than a double but larger than a single. I use double duvets and covers, and a flat double sheet rather than a fitted one.

I am confused now! I thought the bed-size inbetween a single and double was called a three-quarter sized bed!

You should always have a duvet/top layer a size up anyway so buy the double. Flat sheets will tuck under.

Three-quarter is the same as a queen.

I was in the USA, and a US queen is the same as a UK king; a US king is the same as a UK super-king. It all depends where the OP is from... OP where are you...

I had the same problem. We have just moved into a house and bought a bigger bed (Emperor). No where seems to stock the size Emperor, and then i tried The White Company which had a 60% sale on. Fantastic quality bedding and linen.

Going by the shops she refers to, I'd say she's in the UK.

Strange to see this as I have a long-running argument with MIL about queen size beds. She claims to have one, I claim that they don't exist.

This thread helps... I deduce she has a UK kingsize, same as the OP. MIL isn't American though. Maybe an American retailer has moved to the UK and is confusing everyone.

OP where did you buy your bed?

I had the same problem. We have just moved into a house and bought a bigger bed (Emperor). No where seems to stock the size Emperor, and then i tried The White Company which had a 60% sale on. Fantastic quality bedding and linen.

Confusingly, I have googled and found only American references to queen-sized, but my mum has referred her bed as "queen" for as long as I can remember! It's a three-quarter or "small double." and we're in the UK.

4ft, according to the man in the shop I bought it from. I got it for little one (who is loving it by the way - like a starfish in it every night) I just didnt realise it would be so difficult to get bedding.

I bought the bed in Northern Ireland.

ta all

Ah, x-posted enlightenment! Use double-sized as above.

i want an emperor bed now!!!!!!

Well that is truly confusing because MIL's bed is not the same as yours after all, hers is definitely larger than a double. Sounds like you have your solution though.

I'm wondering if it's a Celtic thing; bed bought in Ireland and my mum's from the north of Scotland. Sort of like a regional dialect?

So you're looking for a queensized Irish bed. Or a three-quarter in English.

When I was a girl I slept in my Mum's bed from when she was a girl.

It was known as a queen sized bed and it was four feet wide.

It had a horsehair mattress. Really comfy.