Duvet insert too hot. Need suggestions.

I bought my first duvet and a duvet comforter fir the first time last fall. It’s a down alternative, 4 season comforter, it seems not too thick.

Well, that thing is just dang hot for both of us. For the first time ever I’m sleeping in summer pajamas in winter and it’s still so hot.

My duvet is beautiful in my room and everything coordinated around that, so it’s staying. I keep looking at cooling comforters and there are so many mixed reviews that they are hot too. I’m thinking of just buying a regular blanket and inserting it. But the pretty puffiness will be gone.

Need help!

You could get a summer grade insert.

What temperature do you keep your bedroom at night? It should be in the 50’s.

So you mean you want to keep the duvet cover. The duvet goes in the cover. You need a summer weight duvet. I lived in Europe for twenty years where duvets are the norm. Some duvets consist of two layers that snap together. You can take away one layer when it’s warmer. Or buy a spring or summer weight duvet. A winter weight duvet is going to be hot. The lower the tog number, the cooler the duvet, if I remember right. Europeans typically keep rooms cold at night. Your thermostat should be around 60 or lower in your bedroom for using a winter weight duvet.

A four seasons duvet sounds to me like a misnomer. Something that will keep you warm in the winter isn’t going to keep you cool in the summer.

It’s been warm this week, so I pulled out the summer duvet and put a blanket under it. I have a summer weight and winter weight duvet. Last night was colder, so I put the winter weight back on. I have many different duvet covers though, so it’s easy to do.

Remove the insert, and try using the cover only?

Yes, I want to keep the duvet cover. I’ll look around for summer weight. I had thought of a quilt like comforter, too, but those don’t have ties.

To clarify, the duvet is the thing that goes inside the duvet cover. You can get what is known as a down blanket. They are very thin, feather or synthetic feather filled, and will fit inside your duvet cover.

I prefer a flannel sheet, thin blanket, and old-fashioned bedspread. But our guests all comment on how comfortable the down blanket in our guest room is.

I have a lightweight one from Ikea. I love it. It is perfect in the summer alone and I just add a blanket in the winter. I’ve thought about buying a winter one also. Ikea does a good job on their site describing what each of their duvets are for. Very reasonably priced also.

We take our heavy bed covers off at night and just sleep with the sheets and a blanket. I love the way it looks when the bed is made though so it stays.

I have a summer weight duvet insert and cotton sheets and duvet cover for summer.

And a winter weight duvet insert, flannel cover and sheets for winter.

But now that I’m in menopause I only use the cotton sheets and lightweight duvet insert.

@newpreironic , I took a look at the Idea ones. They look like something I’d like to try, and the cost is good. They seem much smaller than the one I have now, and not sure they will fit my duvet cover. It would fit inside, but lots of inches all around with no fill. It’s perhaps worth a try.

I’m still checking out the summer duvets. I see them at Wayfair, but I hate having a return fee.

I got the lightweight/medium weight (3 season) white goose feather from Costco. Reasonable price and works well with a flannel duvet in Colorado weather with a heated waterbed. In Seattle weather, I use a lighter cotton duvet with the same comforter. Just don’t like the alternatives comforters.

I don’t know if this is still true, because I don’t shop there, but IKEA bedding might use European sizing. Make sure the dimensions will fit your American bed.

My D puts a blanket inside the duvet cover in the summer. They tend to get bunched up inside though. She likes the way it looks on the bed.

You can also just put a bedspread inside the duvet cover.

I thought about a blanket. I suppose you could put a safety pin on the corners and tie the duvet using that.

We used to remove the insert in the summer and just use the cover atop a sheet and a very lightweight blanket, but those three layers got too warm for me and I like the look of the puff so, like @momofsenior1, we leave the comforter in now and just roll the whole thing to the foot of the bed for sleeping. The sheet and blanket are sufficient for us.

I did buy my cover from Ikea also, so that’s why I’m not having trouble with fit. That said, I love my crisp white cover also and it was a great deal.

I have a duvet cover and a duvet that is puffy and warm. Ever since my mom moved in 6 years ago, we’ve had to bump up the temperature and I’m always hot now.

I pulled my duvet out of the cover and now have an almost geometric way of sleeping at night to achieve optimal hours in a row of sleep (lol - only up to 6 so far). I sleep under the duvet cover, perfectly light weight, and have the duvet on top, but my side turned down on an angle, close enough to grab and pull if I get colder, but not making me hot when I don’t need it. (Yes, I’m also a leg out to regulate temperature sleeper, lol.)

I need to find a thin insert, too, but remember how hard it was to find my duvet and cover since my King bed mattress is super deep. I hate when the covers don’t come down long enough on each side of the bed.

@ChoatieMom and @momofsenior1 , doesn’t the weight of the duvet with insert fall of the end of the bed overnight? I like the poof, too.

@conmama - I have a cedar chest at the end of the bed so we pile the pillows and bed overs on top of that.

We have a chest at the end of the bed, too, but the bed also has a footboard, so the rolled duvet stops there; it does not roll over onto the chest.