OK, so we’ve had previous debates on the correct way to hang a roll of toilet paper (undder or over the top). This is a similar dilemma.
How do you make your bed? Do you make it with the “good” sides of the sheets facing each, such as like this:
============ Top Sheet =================
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
You Sleep Here!
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
============ Fitted Sheet ===============
or like this:
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
============ Top Sheet =================
You Sleep Here!
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
============ Fitted Sheet ===============
I was taught to make a bed according to the top scenario, since when you open the bed before sleepin, it makes for a pleasing appearance, and you sleep on the softer sides of both sheets. Mrs. Duckster, prefers the second scenario, mainly because in summer without a quilt and blanket, the “good” side of the top sheet needs to be exposed to the top. Fair enough, but she does it this way all year around!
So how do you make your bed???
How do sheets have a good side vs bad side? I know there is the “it looks more pretty on this side” on some (cheapy percale sheets) and the “ooooooh I have a nice designer logo on this side of my sheets, let me show it to my friends and/or lovers” deal (more expensive sheets). But when the lights are off can you really tell the dif? My sheets feel the same from both sides, YMMV.
Why would I make my bed? I’m just going to mess it up again.
I looked at your descriptions, and needless to say even when I have guests over I don’t make my bed like that. How many sheets do you guys use? Most days we just have the fitted sheet over the bed, which we sleep over, and two separate blankets tossed on top. (Our temperature ranges are vastly different.) When we have guests I’ll cover the bed neatly with the heavier of the two blankets and fold the other one neatly at the foot. Usually I put a stuffed animal on top of the comforter/blanket to add a touch of cutenes…and that is it for my bed-making. Most days the blankets lay where we’ve tossed them.
I’ve never heard of anyone putting the top sheet on upside down (your way). I always assumed that the bottom of the top sheet was the side that was meant to be next to a person – I’ll add to the list of those who have never really noticed a difference in feel between the top and bottom of any sheet.
In the summer I don’t put anything on the top sheet, and I like the “good side” to be facing the room so that the bed looks nice when it’s made (making a bed is ridiculously easy when all you’re doing is pulling up and straightening one sheet!). I’m not looking at it when I’m sleeping in it.
I use two, the top and the bottom (and doesn’t that sound sexual,hmmmm?) with a comforter above all, which gets pitched onto the floor when it gets warm.
Oh, dear lord, don’t get me started on the bedsheets… I have to kick my husband out when he’s trying to help me, or just go behind him and “fix” everything because I’m so freaking weird that way. It’s irresistable. I can’t help it. I* must * have it all a certain way.
And so we have:
Comforter (prettiest design facing up, even though it is reversible, I find the other side desperately boring. The side facing up is a lighter blue plaid-style pattern).
Then:
============ Top Sheet =================
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
You Sleep Here!
Good Side ***** Good Side ***** Good Side *****
============ Fitted Sheet ===============
The reason being, I take the top sheet and fold it over about a foot onto the comforter. We have a king size bed, and though we bought king size sheets, they seem to be quite long. So to compensate, I fold the comforter at the head of the bed over a foot, then bring the top sheet over it and tuck it in under the fold in the comforter to make everything look smooth and rounded. So my top sheet is showing, at least a little bit, when the bed is made.
Then the dark blue pillows in their pillow shams go down, then the pillows in the white and light blue stripes must go in front of them, then my large cream-coloured body pillow must go across the front of all of those pillows, then the second comforter has to be folded neatly at the end of the bed, dark blue side showing only, with not a hint of the green of the reversed side. Then check the ruffles, tuck in any errant sheet, toss my two decorative pillows on and top with my little brown teddy bear. Whew.
I used to go through this dilemma every time I made the bed. If you make the bed so a matching top sheet folds over the duvet cover, then it has to be good-side-down, but … that just seemed wrong, in case the comforter fell off.
Then I figured I was spending way too much time trying to decide and it just didn’t matter. I don’t care, the person who shares my bed doesn’t care, the cats really don’t care, and on half my sheets it doesn’t matter anyway.
I do envy people who get months of weather where it’s sheets only. I’m under a blanket 10 months out of the year.
I was taught to have the sheets facing each other, so that when I make the bed and fold the top sheet down over the blankets the pretty edging is showing. As in this fabulous example.
But now I make my bed without folding the top sheet down over, so I don’t pay much attention to which side of the flat sheet is facing up.
Am I the last person on earth to have beds with regular blankets and a bedspread on top?
My mother taught me to fold the hem of the top sheet over the top of the blankets (and then put the pillows on top of that fold), then put the bedspread over everything, tucking it in neatly under the bottom of the pillows for that traditional “made bed” look.
Why, in my day, we didn’t have pillow shams and duvets and comforters and the like. We slept under wool blankets and we were grateful, dagnabbit…
Like Anaamika, I almost never put a top sheet on my bed - just the fitted sheet over the featherbed, then whatever blankets I need. I found that when I use the flat sheet, I just kick it off in the middle of the night and it ends up bunched around my feet, making me uncomfortable. So why bother with it?
Top sheet “good side down” is the way I learned to make my bed, because it’s how my mother makes hers. So imagine my surprise a few years ago when I observed HER mother making a bed with the good side UP.
Good sides facing eachother so when bed is turned down, the bed sheets match. And getting into a well made bed every night is the height of life’s luxuries - so the bed gets made every morning with all the pillows fluffed and the decorator throw and pillows arranged. My bedroom is my sanctuary at the end of a long day and most lovers I’ve had appreciate the attention to detail. In fact, I don’t know if a relationship will work when my partner is a ‘bed maker’ like me. But I know for sure it won’t work when she isn’t.
That’s how I do it as well. I always have the top sheet folded over, and even in the summer, I just take the duvet out of it’s cover and use the cover alone. It still looks nice, and isn’t too warm. I can’t stand getting into an unmade bed. It’s the last thing I see/do at night! It must be pretty, luxurious, and comforting.
Same here, except I don’t have throws and decoration pillows. I’m not ragging on non-bed makers, but it’s not as if it takes a long time to do (thirty seconds, tops) and it does make a difference when you climb into the bed later on. It’s depressing to come out of the shower and have to look at a nest of tangled sheets.
I guess I do the second example, but I don’t really notice a difference in texture. I usually use fleece or “T-shirt” cotton sheets which are as good as reversible if not for the tiny line of fancy stitching on the good side. But yes, I look for the tiny stitching and make bed accordingly.
I do mine the second way, good side of the top sheet facing up, followed by a light blanket, the quilt, and the comforter in the winter. I pull the quilt and blankets up over the pillows like a bed spread to make the bed so I never have the sheet edge folded down. (but I always sleep with a top sheet 'cause ti’s way easier to wash the sheets than the blanket or quilt…)
I do it with the good side up and don’t do the fold-over – if I have sheets with a pattern. Currently, the two sets I have are completely reversible! They have nice stitching on both sides at the top. They are solid colors. However, when I’m making the bed, you can see which side is which at the bottom of the flat sheet, and I put it on with the seam down and the tag hidden.
