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by mo » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:56 pm

I am fed up with putting duvet covers on Duvets. I am now going to invest in bedspreads.

I'd be interested to know, Which our members prefer.
Duvets or Bedspreads?

by **caroljoyce** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:45 pm

I've always had bedspreads Mo because Tony hates duvets ... says they make him too hot.
I don't mind though... The one I've got is nice. It's like a giant throw. I think they are quite fashionable again now.

by mo » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:17 am

I agree with Tony Carol. Duvets do make you hot.

by **Anya** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:19 am

I love pure down duvets, I have a very light one for summer and a warmer one for winter, on each bed in the house.

Changing the covers I find quite simple. I pick one corner of the duvet and shove it to the corner of the cover. Then the other corner. I pull the duvet to the end of the cover, then find the other two corners.

Have you gone back to sheets?

by **Vince** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:34 am

I love my Duvet, but still use sheets at the same time, I don't think I will go back to Bedspreads, unless in my twilight years I have to go into hospital - were I wont be given the choice.

by **caroljoyce** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:31 am

I think with duvets, you either love them or you hate them. Personally I love them but had to give them up because of Tony.
I had a 4 tog for summer and an 8 tog for autumn. They joined together to make a 12 tog for cold winter nights.
In the middle of winter we only had the 4 tog on the bed and even then he was throwing off the bedclothes saying he was too hot.
We stuck it for a month but in the end I had to give in to his plea and remove them.
It was a wasted investment. They are now on the spare bed.

I don't mind though. I have a beautiful throw type satin beadspread. It looks really nice..... and sheets are a lot easier to change than duvet covers.

by **Rowan** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:03 am

I still use cotton sheets. In winter it's a duvet on top in the summer it's ust the sheet, a thin cotton bedspread (very old, was my grandma's) and to make it look nice a beadspread with matching pillowcases.

by **Oddquine** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:52 am

Almost embarrassed to admit I use a 13.5 tog Duvet all year round. :oops:

And two cotton bedspreads......but they are to protect the duvet and cover from the dog. :oops:

by **Maywalk** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:58 am

Bedspread with a sheet Mo.
Duvets are TOO hot and heavy for our legs and it doesn't help matters with having a memory foam mattress. Blasted thing makes me too hot.
We had it with the electric bed but I wish I had gone for a different mattress.

by mo » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:05 pm

You know what Maisie? I agree with you.
We have a memory foam topper that you put on top of the matress and my legs get soo hot that I get kicky legs and have to get out of bed about five times a night.

by **Maywalk** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:00 pm

Snap Mo.

Apart from the hot legs and feet I get ruddy awful night cramps. I am in and out of bed like a b****y jack in the box.

by **Liz** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:56 pm

lol Long time no see

Well we have the lightest duvet on all the year round, and have never had the radiators on in the bedrooms in the 15 years we have lived here.

I don't like having my feet covered though, so summer or winter my feet are sticking out from under the duvet

by **dejavou** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:34 pm

Duvet for me .... this summer I've had a 1 tog one, which is great, not hot at all

by mo » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:48 pm

Very interesting postings. Thank you.

I still think it will be bedspreads for me.

by **Liz** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:49 pm

Mo, taking this a stage further, have you ever tried a water bed?

I haven't, I was just wondering if anyone had and what they were like.

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