I am looking to buy a nice, high quality king sized duvet. Browsing around online, I am confused, as I see a huge variety of prices. It is not uncommon to see ones for as cheap as $200 or so, and I am seeing ones as expensive as $1,500. I know about Fill, Thread COunt, and Baffling, but this doesn’t seem to explain nearly all of the variation in price. Any advice on buying a good one that will last for years? What should I look for? Any good brands or sellers? What is an appropriate price range?
Scandia Down makes some of the best comforters and pillows on the market. You can buy comforters in varying degrees of warmth factor and pillows in varying degrees of softness. We have both, and the pillows are terrific, if pricy.
I bought a cheap down duvet years ago at, I think, Linens 'N Things (IIRC, for something in the $95-120 range), along with a cotton cover, shortly after buying a more expensive featherbed. The duvet’s held up very well, and I launder the cover regularly.
IMHO you don’t need to spend a whole lot of money on a down duvet in order to get a very comfy, high-quality product that will hold up to many years’ use. OTOH, I should probably replace my down featherbed (this lies on top of the mattress, so it bears the full force of the user’s weight), which even after a vigorous fluffing up, doesn’t hold up very well any more. Partly it’s the baffling, which seems inadequate (the down always ends up disproportionately in the corners and along the edges), and partly I think it’s just that the feathers have been crushed so many times they’ve lost much of their loftiness or springiness. I think I paid about $200 for the featherbed, and, as with the duvet, it’s paid for itself many times over in comfort and reduced heating costs.
When my wife and I moved to Madison WI back in 1994 one of the very first things we bought was a down comforter. We got it at a department store on sale. I think we paid less than $150 back then. No idea what the brand was. We still use it. It’s been dry cleaned twice and at 14 years is showing its age but it keeps us warm as toast. Combine it with a nice flannel cover and flannel sheets and you’ll never want to get out of bed on those cold winter mornings (Like today).
Check out Overstock.com way before you spend over $200 for a down comforter. I have seven down comforters in my house, all purchased between 22 and 3 years ago, and all purchased for less than $80 on sale. I keep them in duvet covers. They are lots of different brands and all continue to serve well. They are each laundered at least once a year and sunned more often than that. Toastily, happily, cheaply warm.
L L Bean has a good reputation for their down products and sells down comfprters and duvets to cover them.
In general prices seem to have come down some in recent years - perhaps because of the influx of Chinese down and down products.
Since you’re a ‘guest’, we can’t see your location. But if you have a Tuesday Morning near you, check them out for down comforters. That’s where we got ours, paid less than $150.00 for it, and it’s easily $300.00 or more, retail. If you don’t have a Tuesday Morning, I second Tabula’s recommendation of Overstock.com.
I also second this: When you buy a down comforter, buy a duvet cover for it! Down comforters are a bitch to clean, but the cover is as easy to wash as a sheet or pillowcase! And when you buy a cover for it, keep in mind that this is going to be the outside part of the comforter, so this is where you really want to pay attention to thread count, composition (Egyptian cotton, etc) and such.
IMHO, it’s much better to find an off-price comforter at Tuesday Morning or Overstock.com for $125.00 then pay another $75.00 for a decent cover for it than to spend $200.00 at a retail store for a comforter!
i bought mine from maholi online, i just love it, so comfortable and have been using it for a long time. when you buy a down duvet and confused with the price you might need to know couple things:
1, you should be careful with the word of the ads, do they put feather at front or down, if they say 100% feather down duvet, this will be just white goose feather duvet, maybe only 5% down include, that’s why price soo cheap
2, look at the fill power info , the higher the fill power the better the quality, that’s why hutterite goose down are soo expensive compare to regular goose down duvet