To get rid of duvets...

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And go to sheets and blankets? Does anyone still use these? Are they warm enough (north England) central heating but old house?

I love my sheets and blankets and would never go back to duvets. I have 100% cotton sheets that I buy in charity shops and merino blankets that are coming up to 60 year old and still in fabulous condition. I also have a handmade patchwork quilt so I can adjust the layers for the time of year. Suits us down to the ground

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I’ve recently considered doing this. Mainly because I like the look of a very well made bed with a bedspread. I simply can’t create the same beat look with a duvet. I also think it would be economical in the long run because duvet covers and sheets get tired looking whereas a good quality bedspread would look newer for much longer. I like the look of hotel bedrooms and the many home decor Istagram accounts I follow mostly have blankets. Plus the blankets now are beautiful coloured and patterned, not the dead beige with a trim ones from years ago. The Americans mostly use blankets and bedspreads too and their climate is far more extreme. I say go for it!!!!!

Rousette

I would agree with you about synthetic duvets - terrible, 'unbreathable' things. However if you have a feather allergy there is little alternative (other than wool or cotton - heavy, and you might as well use blankets).

I want a lovely old fashioned eiderdown.

I'm too hot in the winter with a big quilt so I have sheets a few blankets, a very thin quilt and then a thick fur throw(synthetic).

Do you really care more about how your bed looks than how comfortable it is Jackietheduck? Most of the time you're in it, your eyes are closed 😂

I grew up with sheet, single blanket, eiderdown and candlewick bedspread in a house with no central heating, so I don't see you'd have any problems with keeping warm if you wanted to go back to blankets. You need a generous size, so a good tuck in even when there are a couple of bodies in the bed. And although it looks nice to fold back the bedspread and reveal pillows with neatly tucked down sheets and blankets, remember you need a very generous fold over - there's nothing worse than lying down, head on pillow, to find your blanket only comes as far as your shoulder, and isn't long enough to tuck around your neck and stop the draughts. Hotels usually get this bit wrong.

I find the way to get around duvet issues is to buy 4 tog ones that are fairly thin and can go in a standard washing machine so they are always clean. Because they are thin they dry fast too. Through the year you can have one, two or three as necessary all in one cover. I sew tapes to the corners so they can be tied together at the corners. If you have a flannel cover, a fleece will not slide off either and a flannel cover is so fluffy and cosy. I would not go back to having a massive duvet that needs commercially cleaning now.

Thesmall Yes I do! I find hotel beds very comfortable so I don’tt that that would be a factor at all.

I don’t like feathers, I always feel the hard bit is like toenails. No way could I sleep on a bag of toenails.

I want a lovely old fashioned eiderdown

Marks do this www.marksandspencer.com/printed-duvet-4-5-tog-duvet/p/p60162283?image=PL_05_T35_9150D_CJ_X_EC_0&color=CORAL&prevPage=plp&pdpredirect

My grandma used to make quilts beautiful intricate patchwork and they are lovely and warm and cosy in winter and cool in summer, my son uses the one she made me on his bed and loves it, also have a sheet but I love my cosy duvet, need a new one this year though

I remember scratchy blankets and static bedspreads as a child.
Duvets all the way for me.

Unless you're of a certain age, ie over 80 don't do this.

Just buy some fabulous duvets. I love the goose down ones. Very light, but very warm.

Why do you want to though?

No I would not return to sheets and blankets.
It would take me back to a time before paraffin heaters, and double glazing, that is not worth contemplating.

My mil still does and she has no central heating.

Rum very true, if you suffer with a feather allergy, you're stuck. Luckily I don't

Fleece blankets are great. All my DCs slept with fleece blankets, many layers, they could adjust as they wanted,

And dead easy to wash.

I love blankets, sheets and a thick cotton bedspread.

Not mad keen on duvets and feather ones are very, very cruelly produced. Google if you do not believe me.

I love a flat sheet and to be all tucked in and the weight of a blanket.
I have compromised with a wool duvet.and a cotton flannel sheet. Then a thermal blanket on top.

www.thedonegalshop.com/Products/Eddie-Doherty-Hand-Woven-Tweed-Throw-Aqua-Herring-Bone__ED4_AquaHerringBone.aspx

This would be very warm for those people who are fearful of losing the warmth of a duvet.

Up to you but I loathe sheets and blankets.

I hate the feeling of lying right under a duvet, so I use a flat cotton sheet (one size bigger than the bed, so king size for our double bed) and a duvet on top of that. In winter we add a wooly throw on top of the duvet.