sherbert

Put my duvet in my old top loader many times! But the more safety conscious among us could go to a laundromat and use the front loaders to wash their bulky covers.

Simple solution: go to Ikea and buy duvet/duvet covers. All done.

Pulaski

Why would anyone have a top-loader?

yellowroom

youve had lots of help so far, but I also wanted to make sure you realise that bedding sizes are different between uk and USA. If you've bought an IKEA mattress, then best to buy the bedding (at least the sheets and mattress protectors) from there to start with until you and your girlfriend have reached an understanding!

I'm currently staying in a hotel with a sheet and a comforter and a duvet on the bed. The duvet gets taken off, but I am so unused to dealing with more than one layer that I find I'm waking up in a tangle of sheet with freezing feet and the comforter bunched up somewhere round my (sweaty) midriff. Plus, feather pillows that have no support for my neck whatsoever...

Have you got onto the curtain/drapes conversation yet and discovered how much they cost, and that's per curtain not per pair?! It's enough to send you back to IKEA...

Rete

As others have said, this is the US and not the UK or Europe and our bedding is far different. So are our methods of making in beds and how we keep the temperature of our homes.

The US normally does not sell duvets as you call them. We sell comforters, quilts, bedspreads, blankets and sheet sets which include a fitted bottom and a loose top sheet. We are use to sleeping with a top sheet and the first time I visited Germany and our hotel room only had a goose down comforter folded at the end of the bed, both my sister and I thought the room had not been made up. It takes some getting use to and frankly, I prefer a top sheet under my blanket, quilt or comforter. Why? Because when you sleep, you sweat, your skin flakes, etc. and it is easier to wash the sheets then to wash the comforter, quilt, or blanket. Yes, it is understood that the duvet cover takes the place on a European bed of an American top sheet and serves the same purpose.

Many stores sell comforters which are goose down and in various levels of depth ranging from lightweight for summer to heavyweight for winter. You can buy comforter 'covers' for these plain white comforters. Why you appear to be making such an issue in finding one is mystifying. They are sold at Bed, Bath and Beyond, Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, Target, Kohl's, K-Mart, and online.

Now it is up to you to convince your girlfriend that your way is the only way and the only correct way to dress and sleep in a bed. Good luck.

There are always separate bedrooms !

Rete

Because it is preferred

BenK91

Me and my wife have two comforters for our California King. Mostly because I have a tendency to steal the covers in the night...

She sent me on a trip to get a bottom sheet or whatever they call it here and that was tricky enough!

Nutek

Lets have none of that talk here.

Nutek

Andrex?

Pulaski

I was thinking "Android".

Weeze

Target has made it easy in the last year. An eisle of duvets called duvets and a section opposite with the duvet cover sets (cover plus 2 pillowcases). Remember pillows can be a different size and that king here means superking pretty much from the Uk.

KK85

Once upon a time, I was adamant that I'd be shipping my duvet, pillows and duvet cover sets to the States () because I love my big ol' duvet, and my husband, for all his trying, could not explain to me the differences between all the items mentioned in the OP's original post. Comforters versus quilts versus duvets, and then pillowcases versus shams... honestly, there were almost frustrated fisticuffs over it. Ridiculous.

Can anyone give me a better idea (than my husband can) about the progression of bed sizes in the US? Like how in the UK we have single > twin > double > queen > king > super-king... how are the US bed names/sizes ordered? My husband thinks we have a queen-sized bed, but I am certain our bed in the States is smaller than my humble double here in the UK, and I have no idea if I'm just wrong or simply misinformed. (Not that it matters. But, y'know. Interesting.)

sherbert

Twin > Full > Queen > King > California King


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_si..._United_States

KK85

Thank you! 'Full'! See? I'd never even heard of that one. I shall have a read of the wiki page and familiarise myself, and shock the husband when we suddenly don't need to fight over sheets ever again.

BenK91

Woaaaah we can't afford those luxuries!

Whatever is the cheapest at CostCo does the job!

tom169

A California King is narrower, but longer than a king.

That said I do wish I opted for a California King. My problem at night isn't the buffer to the side of me, but the fact I'm forced to lay slightly diagonally due to height.