bedding basics: down comforter or blanket?
I don’t buy bedding often, but when I do there are two truths I expect to take place the second I pull the trigger on a new look. First, the instant my credit card is charged for the purchase, the item will become available in a snazzy new color that I will undoubtedly love (hello, steel blue!). And second, that I will change my bedding aesthetic just as opinion shifts in the opposite direction. (Having an item the item I bought at full price go on sale would be the third part of the buyer’s remorse trifecta, but I digress). I am very pleased with my most recent acquisition, but like clockwork, just as I’ve signed on to the fluffy, disheveled duvet trend I stumble upon this Wall Street Journal article in which Sara Ruffin Costello makes the case for a switch back to the clean, sleek look of blankets and coverlets. While I love my new duvet, I do agree that I sometimes feel like I’m sleeping in a wood-burning oven, and I also like the color and texture coordination options that layering blankets offers. What do you think, readers? Do you prefer duvets or blankets on your dream bed?
See the end of the article for a five step how-to for help creating a stylish bed, and not for nothing, West Elm’s offering 20% off all bedding for a limited time! –Sarah C.
Image: Boyle + Gardner for The Wall Street Journal
I use both!
In the summer I use a coverlet and in the winter I have a down blanket and duvet cover. We have one coverlet and two duvets but when we move I hope to have multiple options for both. This way I can get good sale items at the end of the season and switch them up during washing times (or when I inevitably get sick of them).
I am generally cold so I also keep an extra blanket on the bed year-round. It looks nice folded at the foot of the bed.
I’m all about the bedspreads/coverlets/blankets. Down is just TOO HARD TO CLEAN. Especially with accident-prone pets.
Both!
I admit the feather comforter is not as easy to clean, especially with “accident prone pets,” (Megan you said it all!) but I wash the duvet frequently. I use the blankets/ light quilts in the warmer months and the feathers in the winter.
I need a thick bedding at all times be it summer or winter…I feel really cold most of the time…That way it’s really cosy…
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I, who live in a house with no insulation, vote: DOWN – all year round. When I finally bought the down comforter (which is so much lighter than blankets), my sleep improved a great deal.
i spent a miserable week at a W hotel years ago before i figured out i was allergic to down and had the pillows and duvet swapped out. blankets all the way!
After too many years of making too many beds – mine, other peoples, hospitals’ – it is duvets all the way, baby! No more layers and layers and layers, and hospital corners, and turned edges for me ever, ever again.