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Anyone else love a cool bedroom?

75 replies

speakout · 22/03/2020 21:24

I can't sleep with any heating on. I love a cosy bed, thick cotton jammies and a deep snuggle. But it doesn't work if I am in a warm room. Anyone feel the same?
I grew up in a house with no central heating, I remember scraping ice off the inside of my bedroom window. But we had piles of quilts, woollen blankets and never cold, apart from the tips of our noses.
Even now as I am snuggling down- outside temperature is 3 degrees, I have my window open and no heating on.
Am I the odd one?

OP posts:
speakout · 22/03/2020 21:48

BobbinThreadbare123 interesting, but that article suggests anything below 16 degrees is too cold for sleep.
Would be far too warm for me.
I am ahppy to sleep in a room close to outdoor temperatures. Lots of warm bedding of course, it is the air temperature that is coool and comfortable, and something really cosy and snuggly going on when you can surround yourself with lots of thick warm covers.
If you have room temperature of 20 degrees or so then you miss out on the snuggle factor.

OP posts:
Roweeeeena · 22/03/2020 21:50

I like to be cool generally. Minimal heating, windows open as much as possible. I find it really uncomfortable to visit houses that are all closed up and heated, especially during the day.
I have the window open and fan on all year in my bedroom.

stickygotstuck · 22/03/2020 21:52

Same here - warm bedding, open window year round, socks off before drifting off.
Otherwise the headache the next day is monumental!

cravingthelook · 22/03/2020 21:54

YES!!

minionsrule · 22/03/2020 21:59

I don't necessarily have the window open as i get bad headaches if i have a draught on my neck/shoulders. But yes love a cold room (we don't have any radiators on upstairs except for bathroon).
If i wake up in the night and can't get vack to sleep i go in the spare room where the bed is nice and cold and snuggle down with the duvet tucked around me, as my body warms up i drift off to sleep. Works everytime

1Morewineplease · 22/03/2020 22:00

Yep! Bedroom windows wide open , central heating off and a large fan blowing. Even in deepest midwinter. Can’t be doing with PJs as they’d be too close to my skin. A sort nightie thanks, so that my legs are free on top of the thin summer duvet.
But by 3 am I’m tucked up under the duvet feeling snuggly.

k1233 · 22/03/2020 22:00

If I'm too hot I have terrible nightmares. Love to snuggle under the doona. Hate a top sheet, but it's a necessary evil here in summer unless you have the aircon cranked 24/7.

namewhatname · 22/03/2020 22:01

YYY. Cool bedroom but warm under the duvet in winter. I've stayed with friends who've had ceiling fans for use in summer - bliss.

HowIrresponsible · 22/03/2020 22:01

I can't sleep with the heating on, or even in winter, with anymore on than a thin night shirt.

God how can anyone sleep in pyjamas, least of all thick cotton pyjamas. So uncomfortable

NoSauce · 22/03/2020 22:03

Yes! My window is open 365 days a year.

Winterwoollies · 22/03/2020 22:03

HURRAH! I've finally found my people.

My H thinks I’m a sadist. I love the window open all year so the bedroom is icy. I love being toasty in bed but able to stick a foot out to regulate if I get too hot.

If I get too hot, I wake up, feel shit, get restless legs and toss and turn.

Chloemol · 22/03/2020 22:04

I have a cold bedroom, no heating on ever and window open all year round.

Londonmummy66 · 22/03/2020 22:07

Me too!!

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 22/03/2020 22:08

I’m with you. That’s why my DH sleeps in another room!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 22/03/2020 22:10

I've got a refund from Premier Inn once as it was so unbelievably hot in the room.

I love a cool bedroom with nice cotton sheets.

pilates · 22/03/2020 22:10

I’m the same op

MrsPnut · 22/03/2020 22:11

Bedroom windows open no matter the weather and often the landing window open too for a draught. I wear pyjamas all year round and bed socks for much of the year but usually sleep outside the duvet so hate being naked.
DH sleeps furthest away from the draught and often has a quilt over his side of the duvet.

Bezalelle · 22/03/2020 22:13

I love a cold bedroom. Unfortunately DH likes it to be hotter than the sun. He's from the Middle East and is used to being boiling hot at night.

Fozzleyplum · 22/03/2020 22:14

Window open all year round and no heating at night in our house. 3 of the 4 of us are asthmatic , and suffer if the air is warm at night. DS1, who is not asthmatic, has his window quite wide open even in the depths of winter and even when he is at university in the Frozen North!

missyB1 · 22/03/2020 22:18

Yes!! Love a cold bedroom! Window open all year, dh hates it Grin

Also remember ice on the inside of our windows. We had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge.

pitlochrypat · 22/03/2020 22:20

My bedroom is unheated and I have a thin stay cool duvet, i love it. I have a cooling fan with a timer which I use sometimes

RUSU92 · 22/03/2020 22:23

I have a window cracked open in the bedroom and the en-suite, no radiator on, and sleep with a 4.5 tog duvet all year round.

My DP says it’s like camping in there Grin.

I occasionally have to use his 10 tog duvet and can’t sleep at all being so hot. Can’t bear it.

But then again, I had my jacket undone, as I was too hot at the arctic circle at -17c recently!

inwood · 22/03/2020 22:24

I grew up in the ME and am so used to sleep with ac at full pelt and a cosy duvet I can't tolerate heating on at night. Much prefer a cosy duvet.

MozzchopsThirty · 22/03/2020 22:24

Oh yes, but my OH can't stand it

I have a summer duvet all year round, it's like a napkin
Window is open whatever the weather and noooooo to heating on at night

PenguinsOnParade · 22/03/2020 22:25

Warm bed, cold bedroom, definitely the best.

DM is the type to have the heating on at 30°C 24/7 365 days a year, and the fire on from September to May constantly too. Most of my teenage/young adult headaches stopped as soon as I moved out and had a sensible temperature in my house. When we visit and stay over there the first thing I do is take my things to the bedroom, turn off the radiator and open the windows. Even if it's ice and snow outside because the spare bedroom has the chimney running up the side of it so that room is never cold enough for me.