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How to Choose the Best Feather Bed to Ease Your Restless Nights

The feather bed has become very popular nowadays in United States. People like its puffy and airy look. They also love its cozy warm sleeping surface. In order to choose an ideal bed for yourself, you need to keep in mind a few important points.

Let me share with you some practical tips on how to choose the right bed for yourself:

• First of all, you need to find out the size of your mattress. For your information, a feather bed is the same size as your mattress. Hence, you don't need to upsize when you purchase one. For instance, if you have a king size bed, you should get a king feather bed too. However, if your mattress is a customized one, you need to place special order for the bed. Besides the size of the bed, you should also decide its thickness. Feather beds come in different thicknesses and piles. In my personal opinion, a bed with 8 inches thick is considered the most comfortable one.

• Next, let's learn more about this particular bed. Basically, there are 3 types of bed, i.e. classic, baffle box and goose down. The classic one consists of 75% feathers and 25% down. Baffle box is fabric box with the height of 2-3 inches. It keeps the feathers evenly distributed. The most costly one is the goose down feather bed. It is super light and fluffy.

• Now, we need to concentrate on the fabric. You are reminded to choose a bed with tightly woven fabric and high thread counts. You are advised not to look for those with low thread counts because the feathers may come through the fabric easily. A high quality one must have at least 300 thread counts. Those with high thread counts are more durable and can be used for longer period of time.

• Don't forget to assess the fill power carefully. You need to keep in mind that the higher the fill power, the better the quality of the bed. The information related to fill power can be obtained easily from the catalogues. The fill power for standard beds ranges from 600 to 800. You can check with the sales persons before you purchase.

• Finally, you need to get your bed a cover or a protector. In order to maintain the bed at tip-top condition all the time, you are suggested to get a zippered cover. It helps to keep your bed clean. To be frank, cleaning a feather bed is costly because you need to send it for dry cleaning. Hence, getting a cover will be a wise choice.

To sum up, before you get a feather bed for yourself, you need to learn more about the quality of the bed and find out your own preferences. Choose a bed which suits your personal needs most so that you can say goodbye to sleepless nights.

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Turning a feather bed into a duvet?

Can you use a feather bed as a Duvet if you get a duvet cover? Would it work?

It might. You can try getting some baby safety pins or large safety pins. You turn the duvet inside out and lay it on top. Then you pin it onto the feather bed and slowly trun it rite side out. You kind of have to get into it to do this. You want to get a duvet cover that has a large opening at the bottom. That is the whole bottom is open with buttons or something. There are even duvet clips. They are metal clips covered in soft foam. They work best. You might also try seweing grosgrain ribbions to the feather bed. The problem you are going to have with this conversion is that if you are using a queen feather bead on a queen bed it will be shorter than the bed and duvet cover most likely. You may have to go down a duvet size or make your own using sheets or fabric. Remember you can usually return things, so you can try and find out. Also many duvet covers are already made of sheets so it is not a big deal if you have to make one. You will just have to rely on some blankets underneath and that will be a top quilt. I think it is a good idea especially if it is not working for you as a feather bed. You might as well recycle it.

Go ahead and measure your feather bed and then take the dimensions to the store. Linens in things has those duvet clips. Return the whole set if you do not like it and do not get one of those horrible duvet covers I got the 1st time with one little hole to stuff the whole thing through. That is a nightmare. I have found wonderfull duvet covers that work from llbean. They have cotton in all colors and they have flannel. They have such a wide varitey of prints.

The dude above will feel pretty silly when he wrongly corrected you. He is the wrong one. He is speaking of a bidet

Main Entry: bi·det
Pronunciation: bi-'dA
Function: noun
: a bathroom fixture about the height of the seat of a chair used especially for bathing the external genitals and the posterior parts of the body

du·vet ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-v, dy-)
n.
A quilt, usually with a washable cover, that may be used in place of a bedspread and top sheet.

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[French, down, from Old French, alteration of dumet, diminutive of dum, dun, from Old Norse dnn.]

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