Which Bedding set up works best for you?

[G-C-R-M0]

Hey fellow hosts,

I wanted to send out a poll here on how hosts usually set up your bedroom beddings.  What I mean by this is the way you put together the bottom sheet, top sheet vs duvet, comforter.

Please respond to the thread using 1 or 2:
1. American/Traditional set up - bottom sheet, top/flat sheet, comforter without duvet

2. European/Millenial set up - bottom sheet, NO top/flat sheet, comforter inside duvet cover

And if you have additional thoughts/comments on why one over the other, that'd be appreciated.

I read somewhere that set up with top sheet is really impractical and is going away, to the point that most sellers now do not even sell top sheet in the set anymore, and you have to purchase it separately.

Duvet covers make sense because you just wrap your comforter and voila! you're done. This is the standard in Europe, and now millenials are adopting it.

Thanks for your time and input!

[Kira32]

@G-C-R-M0  I just keep it very simple with a matrass cover, duvet and a duvet cover together with a small pillow and a firmer pillow with washable covers. 

We have a summer climate the whole year around  but  I noticed that guests like  to crawl in bed and feel softness of the duvet with fresh duvet covers. 

@Gordon0  it's so true what they say about  topcovers in hotels they do not wash it regularly and definitely not after every guest so whenever I stay somewhere I just trow that old dusty thing in the closet.  

[Paul154]

@G-C-R-M0 

I love how you believe that to make  a duvet "you just wrap your comforter and voila! you're done."

I wish it were so.

I'm an American unfamiliar with duvets. I find it very time consuming to place the comforter in the duvet, get the corners in place and not touch it on the floor in the process.

Is there time-saving style of duvet? Perhaps with 2 sides with velcro and or clamps for the corners?

Or can one get fast at stuffing a comforter into a duvet?  

I just don't know, so I use top sheets

[Anonymous]

@Paul154 You turn the duvet cover inside-out, reach your arms through the hole to the opposite corners, grab the corners of the duvet, and either shake it into place or roll it down like a condom.

[Ann489]

@Anonymous    LOL.....thank you for sharing!    I grew up with "Federbetten" /duvets, and never thought it was difficult or a chore to put a duvet cover on! 

[Ann489]

@Paul154   the better American duvets and covers (Potterybarn, Crate and Barrel, Company Store, etc) all have ties inside the corners of their duvet covers, as well as corresponding loops on their duvets. 😉

[Helen427]

@Paul154stand on a chair if you worry about it touching the ground or throw it on the bed to insert the duvet cover.

It's when people get their heads stuck inside them and all in a tangle that's the funniest.

[Dimitar27]

The “burrito method”.

[G-C-R-M0]

@Paul154  - Actually I'm of the opposite. This is really funny! We find duvet to be MUCH simpler than bottom sheet, top sheet, etc. set up.

Yes, agree with @Anonymous  method, but for me I don't even turn it inside out, just put the corners in, and then slide the duvet inside, and then flick it. Everything stays on top of the bed.

[Ann489]

@G-C-R-M0     as a German who has lived in the US for thirty-plus years, I still don't get the concept of those "comforter"-things;  even with the use of a top sheet, the comforter eventually comes in contact with a person's body sooner or later, because those top sheets have a habit of getting bunched up.  Washing those comforters can be a chore--and, unless, you have a commercial washer, involves a trip to the laundromat.  I find those things cumbersome, not to mention unhygienic.

My compromise are nice, good quality, winter and summer duvets with duvet covers that can be washed after every guest,  along with a top sheet to make my, mostly American guests happy.  😉

PS: as Gordon pointed out, those "duvets" you find on the beds of most American hotels arouse nothing but suspicion in  me, because, yes, they probably rarely see the inside of a washing machine.  😛

[G-C-R-M0]

@Ann489 - Well said. That's also what I am thinking, but as you can see, some of the comments above are quite extreme, so this gets me to think maybe I have to adjust to the market demand.

I am totally unfamiliar with bottom/top sheet until I moved to the US, and now that some guests asked, I became very curious about this.

[Emilia42]

@G-C-R-M0 I don't understand what bottom/top sheet means?

[G-C-R-M0]

@Emilia42 - I meant the bottom and top sheet setup (ie. traditional or #1 setup).
Bottom sheet = fitted sheet
Top sheet = flat sheet you have to tuck under the mattress and fold, etc. along with the comforter on top.

[G-C-R-M0]

Oh yes, those comforters (Gordon wouldn't call them duvets because they are not duvet technically) in hotels in US are probably never going to see the inside of washing machine. I found some that are even impossible to wash IMO (or will disintegrate). 
To me they always look like decor, and I just immediately push them to the floor (with a disgust look on our faces).

[Mark116]

Add me to the 'old fashioned' category.  Bottom sheet, top sheet, and then 'something' a quilt or a comforter, that will, depending on time, sometimes have a duvet cover, and sometimes not.  I agree with @Paul154  that getting the quilt or comforter into the duvet cover and making it look unmessy is sometimes almost as time consuming as washing it, and much more frustrating.

I also turn down the flat sheet to encourage all guests to see that they are meant to sleep between the sheets.

It may be old fashioned, but to me, without some type of quilt or decorative looking cover on a bed, it looks too minimalist to me, and since our design is more traditional, such a look doesn't fit with the bedroom looks.

[Wende2]

Hi all........I have the standard U.S. set up, which I might add I didn't even know was a thing.  Bottom sheet, flat sheet, comforter, and blanket folded across the bottom of the bed, at the ready if need be.  Summer months the blanket is folded on the chair, but no one has ever used it to date, thru the summer that is.  I too have the sheet folded down over the comforter, way over.  My question is, how many of you have nice huge European pillows on the bed for decorative purposes only to have guest use them, an at times leave a stain, lucky for me the stain did come out.  I've consider making a nice little wooden sign that says...The European pillows are to decorate the bed, not intended for your head., I haven't done that, but I really hate to remove those pillows as they make the bed look SO inviting.