<p>With January white sales, I am looking to purchase a down comforter for my daughter for next fall. She will have a twin XL mattress next year and probably the following, but will hopefully have a full mattress after that. Do you think I can get away with buying a full comforter for her to use on the twin xl? From what I can tell from measurements, it will be 20 inches wider than the twin, so 10 inches on each side. Also, any recommendations on good quality down comforters? I know very little about them, being from South Florida. I have read to look at both fill power and fill weight, but not sure how it translates. She will be in Boston, so will need something warm. Thanks!</p>
<p>Hmmm…DS went to college in Boston and he never took a down comforter with him. His dorm room was VERY hot…in fact, they often kept the windows open in the winter because it was SO hot. </p>
<p>I honestly would suggest that you get a comforter but I’m not sure a down one is necessary. The new polyfils are very nice and equally warm and MUCH easier to take care of. They can more easily be washed and dried (for those “occasional spills”). Yes, down can be washed but really I have both and I think the down ones are a headache.</p>
<p>Re: the size…it depends. DS’s XL twin bed was also X narrow. So it was longer but it was skinnier. A full size comforter would have been on the floor on both sides of the bed in his case. DD’s OTOH would have been fine because her XL bed was the same width as a standard twin AND it also was a raised twin (off the floor for storage underneath). </p>
<p>Now…having said ALL of that, if your daughter doesn’t mind possibly having to fold the comforter over, it would be fine to get a larger size.</p>
<p>If you go to a place like Kohls or JC Penney, you will be able to buy a polyfill comforter…they come in a huge variety of colors…for a very reasonable price. Usually there is a deal somewhere where all sizes are the same size.</p>
<p>I think full size comforters work well on most twin xl beds, especially if the bed is on bed risers (which I love). Full size comforters reach the floor and hide the bins, boxes, or baskets stored under the bed.</p>
<p>“The Company Store” has particularly nice down comforters if she really wants down. (I bought my daughter a nice twin xl featherbed from Lands End.)</p>
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<p>We have these. Wonderful, especially considering the price.
May be too warm for a dorm room. When D2 was in a dorm, she had the Target Woolrich comforter in a home-made duvet made from two top sheets. Warm enough in snow country and easy to wash and remake your bed.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions. My daughter has a down blanket on her bed here, year round. The house is cooled to 77, except in the winter when it is cold and we heat to 67. She is always cold! She asked for a down comforter for Christmas and I convinced her to wait until January. She will be using a duvet cover with it, so hopefully keeping it clean won’t be too much of a problem. As for the size, she said the beds were regular twin bed width and they are on risers or fully lofted.</p>
<p>D’s bed last year was lofted to 36 inches. She used a full size duvet cover without an insert (she goes to school in CA). This covered the dresser and bins etc under her bed nicely. If there is a chance that your D’s bed will be bunked, I would stick with a twin. A full comforter will hang down too far if she gets the top bunk. This year our D went with a twin bedspread and a flat sheet used like a bed skirt. She said that way the mess under her bed is always covered.</p>
<p>I am sure sure the down comfortor is the way to go…the dorm rooms are much warmer than what most kids are accustomed to at home. I would suggest a regular poly filled comfortor and a fleese blanket to throw over the end of the bed if she should need an extra layer for some reason. If you could get a twin extra large I would go with that rather than the full because it will be too long and bulky on the twim bed. You could get an inexpensive bed skirt to cover the the stuff under the bed and it looks nicer IMHO. You might want to consider the comfortor being washed alot more than the one at home. They eat on the beds and friends will sit all over it. If there is a flu outbreak or something similar that comfortor will find its way to the washing machine and twin fits better than full. My kids were in Ithaca and Boston and none of thm needed down and often found that they needed to open windows on the coldest of days. </p>
<p>I hope I did’nt give you the impression that they actually wash them…not too sure how often that ever really happened.</p>
<p>My daughter currently lives in an off-campus apartment with full beds. She had to buy full-size bedding (which is really full/queen bedding) when she moved there.</p>
<p>Her full/queen comforter is MUCH larger than the twin comforter she had in the dorms. I think that if it was used on a twin bed, it would hang a long way over the sides, which might be uncomfortably heavy at night. </p>
<p>If the comforter you’re considering is really a “full” rather than the more common “full/queen,” it might work. But a “full/queen” size one could be too big.</p>
<p>^^The plus side is that the full size comfortor may avoid the need to purchase all the bedding once they move out of the dorms. We have alot of bedding in our house from all the kids leaving the dorms and I doubt very much they would ever use twin extra long again so maybe the full is the way to go. I also remember purchasing more costly bedding than needed because I wanted them to be comfortable in their new environment…a couple visits later, and you realize what a silly notion that was.</p>
<p>I bought a full comforter for my son to use on his twin XL bed. His bed was against a wall, and so he arranged it so that the excess length would be there rather than on both sides. It did hang down a very long way on the wall side, but making the bed was simple as a result - just pull the cover up over the sheets. His bed was raised up as well - it seems like most dorm beds have adjustable heights.</p>
<p>Since your D definitely wants a down comforter, I would get a full. My S has had a full-size comforter on his dorm x-long twin ever since going to college, and the fit is fine. It comes down on the sides, which is nice. Down comforters last forever, and your D is unlikely to be sleeping in a twin bed and longer than she has to, so IMHO a twin comforter is just a waste of money. BTW, consider that you can adjust the effective warmth of a comforter by using a flannel cover (warmer) or a sheet-weight one (cooler). So a middle-of-the road weight might be more flexible in the long run than a heavier one. </p>
<p>We happen to live near the Cuddledown HQ outlet, which is where I got S’s comforter, but I bought sheets through The Company Store and found their prices and quality to be excellent.</p>
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<p>If you’re looking to have this comforter last through college years, I’d go with wider and heavier. DS didn’t use his down comforter much in the dorm–too hot, but it was a life-saver in the apartment. Roomies tried to save on the heating bill and kept the thermostat just above freezing!! He used it as covers watching t.v, etc…Something to consider.</p>
<p>It will work perfectly. Twin comforter is simply not enough, not comforting enough for me. Twin comforter is for small kids. However, none of us like very heavy, we all like average thickness down comforters.</p>
<p>We also bought allergy control barriers & duvet covers so that we have NEVER had to launder our comforters. Down is tough to launder and often needs dry cleaning or special treatment. No business in our state cleans down.</p>
<p>Yes, you can also make duvet covers out of 2 flat sheets. duvets are very expensive.</p>
<p>Duvets ARE over-priced but do some in nice colors–no reason not to make them out of two flat sheets–you could even have a different pattern on each sheet so that the design is “reversible” when you use the other side on top. Very easy to make duvet covers.</p>
<p>I actually done it with the flat sheet out of her twin bedding set 9size was perfect), so D’s duvet at college was part of her bedding set. I had unused white flat sheet for lower layer. It worked perfectly as background on the set was white. Well, when D. started at Med. School, we had to buy “fancy” expensive set (including duvet), her old set was not up to standard any more. But she is using it at home.</p>
<p>Hi Fishymom-
To make your life easier…you may wish to consider waiting, and just ordering from Overstock.com. They have full size comforters for about $35, and will ship for just a couple of dollars. We did this for our daughter who was attending college in Illinois-we are from California. That way we were not schlepping the comforter-it was there upon her arrival.
We got her the full size, and she continues to use this one now that she has graduated and living/working in DC.
I hope this helps-
APOL-a Mum</p>