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What is your choice of bedding

38 replies

Whenwillthiscoldevergo · 02/05/2025 17:37

This is not a problem & obviously it's down to personal preference, but I'm curious if I'm doing it wrong. We have just a duvet & a couple of pillows each. No top sheet under the duvet & no bedspread/throw. Should there be a top sheet? I see so many photos of luxury beds that have all thus stuff. Dh says no to all this extra stuff as it'll all just get kicked onto the floor, resulting in more stuff to tidy up.

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FalseSpring · 03/05/2025 11:17

I prefer linen sheets to cotton and go with the crumpled look as I was fed up of ironing sheets. I stopped using duvets as I always ended up without it in the night as partner got greedy! Now I use blankets, tucked in well so they stay put.

K8Davidson · 03/05/2025 11:19

We have two pillows each and a low tog duvet (our bedroom is boiling year-round). Only white 100% cotton bedding will do, for me.

QuizzlyBears · 03/05/2025 11:24

I have good quality high thread count sheets - fitted on the mattress and then a flat sheet and a duvet, with a chunky yarn throw if needed. 4 pillows - two firm and two squishy. And a great mattress topper which makes it feel like I’m in a nest!

Springflowersyay · 03/05/2025 11:32

I have a feather pillow and double feather duvet with cotton covers.
DH has a horrible ancient small sofa cushion with a nearly disintegrating sofa cushion cover on it, that aren’t made any more and aren’t designed for the washing machine, so we have a regular disagreement where I say it needs washing and he says he doesn’t want it to fall apart. He has a single synthetic duvet with poly cotton covers.

Our bed is currently rather gritty as the dog insisted on jumping up while he was still covered in a considerable amount of dust from where he’d been digging after a swim in the lake.

Haven’t ‘made’ a bed for 30 years, since being forced to as a child.

I can’t help with suggestions for luxurious, sorry.

DappledThings · 03/05/2025 11:37

I hate top sheets. Always get tangled up in them. We have a king size duvet on a double bed. 2 pillows each. An extra blanket I crocheted in winter.

No extra cushions, never understood the point of those. In hotels they go in the wardrobe as soon as I check in and don't come back out.

And I like patterns and colour. I know lots of people like plain white but to me that can only ever be utilitarian and never luxurious or special.

plankss · 03/05/2025 11:37

Pillows, fitted sheet and duvet. I have the cheapest duvet from Asda or Argos (I had an expensive one and simply couldn’t tell the difference) but always 100% cotton bed linen, but I don’t care about TC or Egyptian.

LaLoba · 03/05/2025 11:42

I used a top sheet through the night sweat years, it allowed us to sleep in the same bed as I could peel the duvet off while husband stayed warm. Now the hot flushes are over it feels luxurious not to have the faff of the top sheet when I make the bed, but I must admit the appearance was nice when I used one.

nyancatdays · 03/05/2025 11:46

7.5 weight duvet (our house is warm year-round), 1 medium film pillow each, all-cotton or linen bedding. I find H&M good for affordable cotton and linen bedding. I also prefer it all in white or a pale colour. No fuss or frills!

Netcam · 03/05/2025 11:52

maggiecate · 02/05/2025 18:25

Wool duvet, mattress topper and pillow - brilliant for temperature regulation, it’s warm in winter and cool in summer. High thread count fitted sheet, cotton duvet cover. I run hot so breathability is important.

Sounds like me. We have a lovely Devon Duvets wool mattress topper with a thick wool fleece blanket on top and then a cotton fitted sheet. Wool filled duvets (summer weight in this weather, spring/autumn weight in colder weather) with cotton duvet cover. Wool filled pillows from the Wool Room. For high summer (usually July and August) we have a very thin cotton filled duvet for when the wool summer one can get a bit hot.

dudsville · 03/05/2025 13:04

I grew up with a top sheet and blankets, and was so frequently tangled up in them, and it was still in the days of tucked in bedding, so they were always somehow wrong, or they weren't aligned well and I was always readjusting them. Nowadays, we each have our own duvet. I like a medium duvet to myself, DH prefers a single. He keeps his 7.5 tog duvet in year round. I take mine out in the warmer weather and use the duvet as a top sheet and use a wool blanket loosely on top. Our bedding is only a 200 thread count, but it's soft, and 100% cotton, and these are the most important qualities to me.

Mathsbabe · 03/05/2025 13:05

I have cream bedding. That is luxury to me.

WinterFoxes · 04/05/2025 07:27

Four pillows, fitted sheet, duvet in cover. No top sheet. No bed cushions. I loathe them. They are purposeless dust- and germ-gathering, work-making estate agent naff housedressing.

I add a warm throw in winter.

Needanadultgapyear · 04/05/2025 07:40

The comfort of my bed is supremely important. Firstly a Harrison Spinks zip link super king wool and hemp mattressfirm for DH, medium for me and they are seasonal flip - so we now need to turn to the summer side. Bamboo mattress protector - electric one in winter, cooling one in summer.
A all season wool duvet so a 4.5 tog for summer and a 9 tog for autumn and spring that button together for winter we both really feel the cold. Two wool pillows to provide support and two feather to sink into. Cotton linen just a duvet cover no top sheet DH is like an epileptic octopus and ‘breaks’ the fitted sheet - untucks it every night.
Bed remade neatly every morning so you feel special when you come to bed at night.
in the depths of winter - we do live in a cold place we were still having frosts last week we have a homemade merino wool blanket that also adds a lovely weight.
DH travels the world for work staying in top hotels and he always says when he comes home that our bed is the best.

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