How to Make Your Bed Complete Without a Million Pillows
Having worked from home since the beginning of the pandemic, I have had to constantly struggle with the fact that other members of my family are total slobs. (Not me; I’m an excellent housekeeper.) And as our crowded apartment gets closer and closer to our hectic life, I adhere to one small order that I can impose on any day: I make the bed as soon as I am dressed . This is advice I got from former Lifehacker editor-in-chief Melissa Kirsch, who trusts them . And while, of course, straightening the duvet and straightening the sheets always makes me feel better, until recently it bothered me that my newly made bed never looked “finished.” Consider stepping into a swank hotel room: what’s on that large king-size bed? A perfectly tucked blanket, yes, and probably over half a dozen pillows. At the hotel there is a reason for this: when you put them on top of or in front of pillows that you do use for sleep – usually two per person, even if you only use one to sit in bed – decorative pillows will make your bed well seasoned. But moving six extra pillows every time you actually want to use the bed isn’t really mine either.
How to make a bed with just one throw pillow
This is why I’m glad my wife stumbled upon helpful time and money saving advice from interior design blogger Emily Henderson, embedded in a great post on “the right way” to make a bed : Instead of buying a bunch of little things, pillows to throw around across the mattress, just use one long throw pillow (or even covered with a body pillow) placed horizontally in front of your sleeping pillows. We bought a large lumbar pillow from Target for about $ 30; at 42 inches, that’s enough to give our king-size bed a deliberate look, even if placed in front of our frankly small sleeping pillows (this work in progress). With only one throw pillow to move around, making the bed in the morning and climbing into it at night is not that difficult, but I still feel good every time I walk past the bedroom and catch a glimpse of the bed. I mean, it’s time to celebrate small victories.