Do you "dress" your bed like a designer?

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Anonymous wrote:Watched so many movies where I see the couple moving all those decorative pillows to the side to go to sleep. Do people really do that???

My parents do! Their house is awash in decorative pillows. You have to move them every time you sit on the couch, get into bed, etc. It looks really nice but I don't have the patience for that/

We do not have decorative pillows or "dress" the bed. I feel like a gd accomplished adult for making our bed every day.

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Interesting. I don’t currently have any extra decorative pillows or blankets on my bed, but since I have been teleworking in my bedroom and staring at it all day, I had been thinking that this would be a nice way to add some coziness and cheer to my room.
Question— do you remove the shams from your pillows every night? Or do you just have extra pillows that are decorative just for the shams that you remove from your bed? That’s the one thing that seems tedious to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I don’t currently have any extra decorative pillows or blankets on my bed, but since I have been teleworking in my bedroom and staring at it all day, I had been thinking that this would be a nice way to add some coziness and cheer to my room.
Question— do you remove the shams from your pillows every night? Or do you just have extra pillows that are decorative just for the shams that you remove from your bed? That’s the one thing that seems tedious to me.

I do have two pillows that I put on the floor at night. But, they’re a dark, durable fabric (so don’t wash them that often) and they keep the dog off my sleeping pillows. They’re huge Euro (square) so look good propped in front of the sleeping pillows on our King bed.

Imo it’s a balancing act between function and look. I can’t bear to tuck anything in, so I have a thin cotton blanket over the sheets and I just let them hang over the side. The blanket makes it look fairly neat. The duvet gets folded in thirds at the bottom so it can be pulled up with one hand and by someone already in the bed.

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We have this in our master, and I love it!! It makes the room a retreat, and feels luxurious.

We have sheets, a duvet, fold a blanket over the foot of the bed, four king size normal pillows, 2 king shams, and 6 smaller decorative pillows on top of the normal pillows.

I don’t understand why it’s so much fuss. When we make the bed each day it takes less than a minute to put the pillows on the bed. We just throw them on the floor next to the bed at night (our floors are clean).

I do the same for the kids beds. It’s really not a lot of extra work on a daily basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have this in our master, and I love it!! It makes the room a retreat, and feels luxurious.

We have sheets, a duvet, fold a blanket over the foot of the bed, four king size normal pillows, 2 king shams, and 6 smaller decorative pillows on top of the normal pillows.

I don’t understand why it’s so much fuss. When we make the bed each day it takes less than a minute to put the pillows on the bed. We just throw them on the floor next to the bed at night (our floors are clean).

I do the same for the kids beds. It’s really not a lot of extra work on a daily basis.

Do you have a house cleaner?

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Heck, no! I hate bedding that can't actually be used, like those heavy quilted shams and things with heavy braid. They just end up on the floor.

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Anonymous wrote:In I have a quilt at the end of the bed and an extra long lumbar pillow. So it always looks nice but easy to make!

This is what I do- the lumbar pillow dresses things up and adds color, but it's one pillow- no big deal to move.

And I often end up using the extra blanket on the end of the bed for extra warmth, so we'd need an extra blanket either way. I just happen to have one that I think is really pretty.

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Only if the bed is in the background of my work telecall!

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Anonymous wrote:Watched so many movies where I see the couple moving all those decorative pillows to the side to go to sleep. Do people really do that???

New poster here

I just got new bedding with lots of decorative pillows, and I literally just ordered a small chaise lounge for my room, mainly to have a place to put the pillows on at night.

So did my late MIL. Are you a senior citizen?

Lol 44.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep. I don’t have tons of throw pillows, but I put two euros and two nicer standard pillows in front of the sleeping pillows. The bed itself has sheets, blanket, coverlet (lightweight), and then the comforter+duvet folded at the bottom.

I also put two comforters in our duvet covers. I like the weight and warmth.

Each room has a bench or chair at the bottom of the bed to hold the euro and nicer pillows at night.

I also have a friend who stays over regularly, so I take extra care to make sure the guest room feels really special and comfortable.

This is a genius idea that never occurred to me.

our duvet came with two layers that have snaps so you can keep them together. One is lighter weight than the other. I think they came from the UK, though. I sure haven't seen these at bed bath and beyond.

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omg who has time for all this stuff. I do make my bed (and make my kids make their beds), but it's fairly simply - sheet, duvet and pillows to sleep on.

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Anonymous wrote:Watched so many movies where I see the couple moving all those decorative pillows to the side to go to sleep. Do people really do that???

Yes, and it's really dumb. My DH likes a nicely made bed so he's in charge of this. I swear he has even made the bed around me when I'm sleeping in. Its obnoxious. We have about 6 useless pillows and one useless blanket.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have this in our master, and I love it!! It makes the room a retreat, and feels luxurious.

We have sheets, a duvet, fold a blanket over the foot of the bed, four king size normal pillows, 2 king shams, and 6 smaller decorative pillows on top of the normal pillows.

I don’t understand why it’s so much fuss. When we make the bed each day it takes less than a minute to put the pillows on the bed. We just throw them on the floor next to the bed at night (our floors are clean).

I do the same for the kids beds. It’s really not a lot of extra work on a daily basis.

Do you have a house cleaner?

Pp here - yes, once a week. But I am the one who makes four beds every morning, so I am the one dealing with the beds and laundry.

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Anonymous wrote:Watched so many movies where I see the couple moving all those decorative pillows to the side to go to sleep. Do people really do that???

Yes, and it's really dumb. My DH likes a nicely made bed so he's in charge of this. I swear he has even made the bed around me when I'm sleeping in. Its obnoxious. We have about 6 useless pillows and one useless blanket.

I feel like this must be unusual for a man.

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Yes, I have pillows. The rule in my house is the last one out of bed has to MAKE the bed. I had to show DH the order of the pillows. I told him I would be patient until he did it right. Who knew he was capable of making a bed?