<p>Do you use it? I am redoing the master bedroom. I found a wonderful fabric that will look good on the bed at a great price. We always used a comforter with a duvet cover that gets washed when sheets are changed. Would a bedspread work on top of a duvet? Can you use rather heavy fabric to make a bedspread?</p>
<p>I did not grow up with a comforter/duvet combination, but have used that for many of our years in the midwest. I realized I can’t stand having a comforter on the bed. I don’t want to have to switch out between summer and winter comforters, so I decided to go with a quilt - however, my tastes are more contemporary and finding a contemporary quilt was a bit of a challenge… until I found this company:</p>
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<p>I now have her quilts/blankets/sheets on all three bedrooms in our house and love them!</p>
<p>No, we do not have a bedspread, nor do any of our kids nor most of my sibs. When we were 1st married, we used a duvet & duvet cover, but it’s been WAY too hot in recent years to bother with either–thin cotton sheet and in the winter, we add a flannel sheet as a “blanket.”</p>
<p>The bedroom is boring without something on the bed. Duvet covers don’t do the trick. I like to wash duvet covers as often as sheets and fancy fabrics don’t wash well.</p>
<p>“Do you use it?” - No, I never make my bed anyway…It does not matter to me if bedroom is boring, I just have a 60’’ there and tons of plants, the shlf unit withe my art, I geuss, mine is not boring after all, but we are not living in our bedrooms, so why care?</p>
<p>That’s another reason I went with a quilt (a bedspread can get you the same effect) - it can be thrown in the wash as often as I want and I don’t have to deal with placing a comforter back in a duvet cover; and it fits in my HE washing machine - no going to the laundromat. Also, I’m with Himom - much easier to layer with a quilt and get the temps where you want. H and I have noticed a recent trend in hotels, though - they seem to be getting away from offering layers - we’re seeing a lot of just single sheets and comforters… nothing for in between.</p>
<p>To have a nice dream? I am OCD and it makes me feel good that all corners are tended to.</p>
<p>I rarely make my bed either, but I sure like nice linens on them and enjoy looking at them when I’m in the room. I also have (let me count) about a dozen pillows of varying sizes on my bed, so when my cleaning lady is here, and makes the bed and puts all the pillows on the bed the way they are meant to be placed, I love it - makes me feel like I actually have some decorating sense (I had help putting this look together). As for the rest of the bedroom, I’m rather a minimalist, so just three pieces of furniture, a chair/ottoman, and some minimal artwork on the walls. </p>
<p>My choices are somewhat limited since I am trying to match the upholstered bench and the curtain. </p>
<p>"To have a nice dream? I am OCD and it makes me feel good that all corners are tended to. " - yes…when cleanning lady is doing the tending. So, I lied, the bed is actually made one time in 2 weeks by the cleanning lady. She just use our comforter for the spread, it would be too much for me to remove a spread even once in 2 weeks, I am way too lazy for that which probably makes me an opposite of OCD, I do not know anything about it though…</p>
<p>I am happy to see I am not the only non-bed making slacker. I have a nice (not expensive) comforter, bedskirt and pillow set. It looks lovely when it’s all made with all the pretty pillows placed…which doesn’t happen often. What do you all do with the pillows? I always wonder if people actually put all those back on the bed daily? Mine sit in a stack against the wall unless I get really motivated…or company is coming.</p>
<p>My throw pillows and the pillows with the shams normally are shoved in a corner of bedroom. I do put them on when I have company and after I’ve done a big cleaning. </p>
<p>I just use a white down comforter on my bed. I do tuck in the sheet every day. Bed in on a platform so no need for bed skirt. </p>
<p>…no bedskirt here either. I have a type of bed with the board stand underneath the mattress, no spring box. No pillows either, just the ones that we sleep on. As simple as possible. Tiem to go to bed, just get under comforter (which has a removable comforter cover, I would not stand all the fighting with the sheet under comforter either.<br>
Well, when company is coming, they are not invited to my bedroom, so we do not bohter making bed for the company either. </p>
<p>We use a quilt…no bedspread.</p>
<p>A quilt makes a good bedspread. Unfortunately, it won’t work for my room. </p>
<p>There are many, many bedspreads available at Macy’s (MS and Hotel collections), some have quilt-like stitching, some don’t. I have one of those without - I like the look. It can be used as a cover for a comforter, but I don’t stuff anything into it. </p>
<p>I am trying to picture what you are planning. We have a longish comforter on the bed that for all intents and purposes is a “bedspread” in that we fold it back at the top where the pillows are and it drapes over the side and foot to where the dust ruffle/bed skirt thing (its flat, not a ruffle) is. I also have a TON of pillows on the bed (DH hates that) but thats a way to pull in the fabric from the curtain/footstool fabric.</p>
<p>We use a bedspread, meaning a quilt-like spread without real insulation. Why? Because we can add blankets as it gets cold. </p>
<p>Okay, I’m trying to understand why anyone feels the need to wash a duvet cover every week, anymore than you’d wash a bedspread every week. On my bed, the only things that touch our bodies are the top and bottom sheets and pillowcases. Do some of you forego the top sheet? With a king-size bed, wrestling the duvet cover back on is a task I do as infrequently as possible.</p>
<p>Our duvet, with a very pretty cover, takes the place of a bedspread. I have extra pillows with shams that match the duvet cover that go on top of our "real " pillows when the bed is made to keep the latter out of sight. A few decorative throw pillow finish the job. The bed gets made every morning, because there’s nothing more dismal to me than heading off to sleep at night and encountering a messy bed.</p>
<p>We don’t use top flat sheet. Duvet cover is the top sheet for us. </p>
<p>jym, that’s exactly what I am trying to make with a piece of fabric. I have a down comforter and the bedspread will go on top.</p>