Duvet suggestions

If you like weight get a weighted blanket, lovely and cosy.

You can get cheaper coverless duvets than Night Owl, we've got one (think I got it on Amazon) and it's great. Pop it in the washing machine every week and then either hang out or put in the tumble dryer and it's dry and ready to go back on the bed that evening. Obviously you could have 2 so you don't have to get it clean same day (or if you don't have a tumble dryer) but same day turnaround works for us.

Soft as Down by M & S for me too. I have had a 4.5 tog on since end of March and won't be changing to a heavier tog until end October probably. I have the same duvet, 7.5 tog on a guest bed and when decorating used that room. Think a 7.5 would do me all year round.

I use a Scottish army wool blanket, the same size as my duvet cover, 155cm x 220cm. I can't bear the synthetic fibres, too hot.
Besides the duvet cover with the blanket inside, I also use a top sheet made of cotton. The wool blanket weighs 2kg. In winter I take an extra wool blanket if needed.
Wool blankets don't need regular washing, a good airing is better on the fibres. Otherwise a light hand wash and a quick spin and then air dry on the clothes dryer, maybe twice a year. Wool dries fairly quickly, tumble dryer would ruin the blanket in no time.

Just ordered a single night owl duvet. It was £33.75, but there was a promotion code offered, which brought it down to £28.80, plus £4.95 postage. Altogether, cheaper than Fine Bedlinen price before postage.

I’m astonished that some here wash their duvets frequently or weekly 😲.

I don’t use top sheets, I hate to tangle with them. I alternate between two down comforters (duvets) weekly. I air out my duvets in the bright sunshine on a breezy day draped over a wooden frame dryer.

Sunshine is a natural sanitizer! Fresh air puffs out and aerates my duvet. It comes in after 6 hrs feeling and smelling like new!

I do wash them only twice a year. It takes a long time to tumble dry down in a commercial jumbo dryer. Synthetics would dry in a snap. I find synthetic (down alternative) to be suffocatingly hot to sleep with and there’s that “static problem” in winter.
Snap, crackle, pop!
USA Gundy 😴

dogsmother

A couple of years ago my down one was in need of a change, so I thought I’d try a synthetic fibre one. I was and am thrilled to bits. No hesitation in continuing to replace the others.

Just be very certain you are not allergic to synthetic fibres before following this advice, because if you are, sleeping will be hard and you will waken with aches and pains all over you!

We have a silk filled one on the spare bed, I’ve used it a few times and it’s lovely. All others are down. I’ve just bought a wool pillow but haven’t used it yet.

Please consider cruelty free. Countries like China etc don't care bout cruelty to these animals.

Also do they not get lumpy over time, like the man made pillows do?

Some do, but the better synthetic ones don't go lumpy, and don't involve cruelty to animals.

I have arthritis and cannot stand much weight on me. I have a synthetic filled 2.5 tog duvet winter and summer.

I have pure goose down duvets as they snuggle around the body well and feel very luxurious. I'm not generally extravagant but bedding is something I'm willing to spend money on. Also they last for years and years and can be washed.

When I have slept with the man made ones the air gets in at the top as they don't tend to mould themselves around you so well and there are gaps at the top which produces cold shoulders and cold down the back. But I don't sleep in pyjamas. Perhaps with pyjamas the issue doesn't arise.
Also do they not get lumpy over time, like the man made pillows do?

I'd always replace something I like with something similar.

I have a woollen mattress topper which is heaven, made in Devon, bought from John Lewis

I reckon we spend so much time in a bed so it needs to be a good experience!

People all have their own preferences, and they have zero impact on anyone else. We had the same thing over soup makers recently - why can't people just accept that not everyone does things the way they do?

It's not just a case of 'snapping a few poppers once a season'. If you change the covers regularly it is the extra washing, the changing of the covers, the storing of the unused bits of duvet and the regular laundering of the quilts themselves. None of that is necessary with the coverless ones - the whole thing goes in the machine, tumble dries or drips over the line for an hour or so and back on the bed. Fine if that doesn't suit you (generic) but mocking people who prefer that way of doing things is just rude, IMO.

I spent a summer with a German family when a teenager and discovered the joy of a continental quilt which were just becoming available then. I treated myself to one when I won some money. I still have it and have gone back to using it. It is formed with tubes of feather/down that shake down to bottom in summer and in winter need a good fluff up to get full value. I have an extra cover as a liner and always 100% cotton for main cover. I suffer from asthma but this quilt is not a trigger and has never been washed. I worked as a chambermaid in Austria in later years and learnt the knack of putting on quilt covers.

annodomini

I've had a M&S 2 in 1 down duvet for some years and so far have never felt the need to change to a different type. When I tried to use both together, I discovered that it was too hot so use them separately, winter and summer. They are dry-cleaned at the end of season.

Exactly what I do annodomini. Currently on 4.5 but even that is too warm in this hot weather. I take mine to a laundrette which has those huge washing machines every now and then.

Mine is by The Fine Bedding Company and is many years old but still like new.

Primrose53

Doodledog

Ah well, each to her own. My 2in1 went to the Dogs’ Trust, as it was such a faff . I find the new ones much nicer and more hygienic, but there is no right and wrong, is there?

🤣🤣 how can closing about 10 poppers maybe once a season be a faff?

As I say, each to her own.

I've had a M&S 2 in 1 down duvet for some years and so far have never felt the need to change to a different type. When I tried to use both together, I discovered that it was too hot so use them separately, winter and summer. They are dry-cleaned at the end of season.

Doodledog

Ah well, each to her own. My 2in1 went to the Dogs’ Trust, as it was such a faff . I find the new ones much nicer and more hygienic, but there is no right and wrong, is there?

🤣🤣 how can closing about 10 poppers maybe once a season be a faff?

I one for warm weather and another for winter. Very pleased with them. Both from Ikea.

Ah well, each to her own. My 2in1 went to the Dogs’ Trust, as it was such a faff . I find the new ones much nicer and more hygienic, but there is no right and wrong, is there?

I think I would get bored with a NightOwl duvet. I looked at them when they first came out but they look pretty boring and I love to change my duvet covers frequently as they give the room a completely different look.

My duvet is an all seasons one which is years old. It was very expensive at the time and has a 4.5 and a 10.5 tog duvet which pop together. Currently even the 4.5 is too warm. It has been worth every penny.

Sorry you’ve had Covid, Doodledog - it keeps popping up again, doesn’t it?

As I think I said before we have the coverless duvets for guest beds but after we used one recently when our normal duvet was being cleaned, my Dh loved it! So now I’m thinking of buying a bigger one for our bed. Fine Bedding do one with a cotton cover so I’m pondering that, although I’m not sure whether it would go in the machine. Maybe two singles would be better.

Great that you’ve tested negative and many thanks for the link. 😊

You can get 10% off with the code NEW10, incidentally.

I tested negative this morning, thanks .

AKAIK the washable ones are all synthetic, which is why they dry quickly.

www.finebedding.co.uk/products/night-owl?variant=39791832989758

I got mine from the company in the link above - one like the one in the link and another with stars on it.