Quite awhile ago, we discussed whether or not you all like the “unmade bed look.” It was fun to read all of your answers (and if you didn’t participate, go ahead, do it now!)
Today, let’s have another little chat about bedding! Here is what I am wondering:
Do you all have a favorite brand and thread count of sheets?
Do share what your favorites are!
And, as long as we are chatting, feel free to talk about types of bedding you use throughout the year, for instance do you have flannel sheets in the winter and satin in the summer? Or cotton year round? Do you have different sheets for different moods? Do you mix up different pillow cases with your sheets?
How many of you have just one set you wash and put back on?
And do you IRON {gasp} your sheets?
Ok, talk amongst yourselves…I can’t wait to hear what kind of sheets you like!
Photo: Ralph Lauren
Well, I live in SoCal and my husband who runs is ALWAYS HOT. So, only cotton sheets for us. I don’t use a comforter either. We have a coverlet from Peacock Alley that is beautiful. When I get colder, I wear flannel jammies and add an extra blanket to my side. My sheets are probably over 300 count. I make the bed high and tight. I don’t like the way fitted sheets aren’t really snug like they were when I was young. You couldn’t bounce a nickel on my bed, that’s for sure. I hide our pillows behind Euro Shams. Does everyone else hide their pillows? Ours don’t look good enough to display like Melissa’s picture after sleeping on them.
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I recently was enticed by an infomercial for Nate Burkus sheets. I needed a new set so I ordered them and they are nice. (Not quite as luxurious as I had expected from all the hipe) I had been using really soft ones from Bed, Bth and Beyond-Beech or Birch which I loved getting into but each time I washed them they seemed a tad smaller so now I use them on the queen guest bed. For my last guest I did iron just the large hem at the top so it would look nice when I folded it over the blanket. I like the look of the unmade bed and have done that on occasion but it seems to be more work than just throwing the covers up over the bed so I don’t use it much. Also I think you have to have cuter sheets and blankets than I have right now to really get the Lauren look. I have more than one set for each bed but seem to always use the same sheets as soon as they are dry. I wish they came out ironed from the dryer. Someone should work on that!
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Ooooo, one of my favorite topics…sheets. I ♥ soft sheets. I don’t have a particular brand, but I don’t buy anything under 600 thread count. The one’s I have on my bed right now are 1000 count Egyptian cotton…yum! Makes me not want to get out of bed in the mornings…throw a down comforter on top of that and you have the perfect combination. I have two sets of sheets, but my 1000 count get used the most. The other set is 600 count and they’re mainly there for emergencies…like a pee-pee accident…not ME, the 5 year old!
On the ironing question, I don’t iron my sheets, but my mom used to iron EVERYTHING including sheets…and pillow cases…and my underwear, but we won’t go there.
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What a fun conversation.
Connie – the machine is a mangle – if you google “mangle iron” you’ll come up with lots of info.
I like a made bed look – I love seeing the bed neat and welcoming when I wander through the bedroom during my day. I have one set of 100% cotton sheets and just wash and put them back on the bed. I do have more sheets that I could use, but I like these and this saves folding!
I have a winter duvet and cover, and a lighter summer coverlet. Lots of pillows make the bed a cozy place.
Lorrie
ok, so I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Ralph Lauren 400-600 count sheets! Sheets are the one item that I splurge on. I have three pair: blue, white, and red. Usually I change them out once a week and wash the in Victoria’s Secret laundry was. (Oh my, them smell sooo good!) And, yes, I do iron my sheets. They just feel so much better when I do. It’s like climbing into the lap of luxury at the end of the day. As a SAHM of three, it’s the payday I need as I fall into bed each night!
Fun Post!
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I DO iron my sheets. It is my one luxury (that and Tazo green tea). I have two sets of cotton sheets (one wedding gift one from sale @ Target) and I change them out every one/two weeks. I have been trying to make the bed every day so at least it looks neat and makes it so inviting! Our room is always cool so we use a comforter and quilt year round. I like the weight.
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I like the tread count high and I like them ironed. Simple as that. To motivate myself to iron them I just put on “House” and iron away!
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I loved reading all these responses. I’m surprised by how many of us have only one set that we wash and put back on the bed the same day. I thought I was the only one who did that.
Flannel for winter, 600 count sheet from the QVC the rest of the year.
I iron the pillow cases. I like the crispness the first couple of nights. Doesn’t last though.
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My mother-in-law tells me that we spend 1/3 of our lives in bed, so it should be wonderful, and I agree. While I have several sets of sheets, I return again and again to the eggplant colored Egyptian cotton sheets I love best. I must replace them before I wash them to death!
We have one set of nice sheets for our bed that we wash and put back on. They are white pure beech sateen sheets from Bed Bath and Beyond and they are the best
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I cannot sleep on an unmade bed and will make it right before I climb in, if necessary. I like the sheets to be smooth. We have one set of Land’s End flannel sheets for winter, which I wash and put back on. If nothing else, it saves me from folding the dreaded fitted sheet! In the Spring/Summer, I have lots of sheets. I always love the look of a made, but mis-matched bed. The kind where there might be 3 or 4 different patterns on it at a time. I am bound and determined to make it happen this Summer! I also just informed my husband that I’m buying new curtains this year for Spring/Summer to switch out in place of my darker Fall/Winter ones. There’s another topic for us…window coverings!
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I use a down comforter and a small down pillow, hubby uses just a sheet and 2 big pillows, so our bed looks very lopsided. I’m more concerned about comfort than looks though. I shuffle things around if we have a party where I know people will want a house tour. I use high thread count soft white cotton sheets, swapping out between two sheet sets. I like white because it’s easy enough to bleach and always looks crisp and clean.
The comforter set is fairly formal and comes with an abundance of pillows, nice when it’s all made up, but a pain for everyday.
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Bright white 600 count Egyptian cotton sheets, brand isn’t usually important. 6 king-sized down pillows in the bed at all times, a holdover from “the mom fort” i used to build in order to sleep while pregnant (a mere 19 years ago, jeez …).
Love the smell of bleach, reminds me of grandma Alice’s house, where the washing machine was in the kitchen.
White down comforter in the winter months, sheets only in the summer, with something pretty tossed across the end of the bed.
I love the look of a luxurious comforter in rich jewel tones, but have no place to put it while we sleep and get tired of picking it up off the floor.
Victoria
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Umm…I have no idea what brand sheets we use. Cheap is what is used to determine purchases at this point in life! I would love to have a higher threadcount than 200 but I am grateful to have sheets at all.
I do not iron my sheets…I simply LOATHE ironing. But I have contemplated ironing the oh-so wrinkled cotton pillowcases from time to time.
Right now we have a comforter that I bought at Linens’n'Things but it wasn’t what I was looking for, so now it mocks me everytime I look at it. Sigh. This weekend I am hoping to hit IKEA for some comforters (any size) for $19.99!!!
Sadly my kids have a mish-mash of bedding too. However, I am concentrating on my master bedroom first then I will move onto theirs!
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I’m so glad you posted about this topic. I’m wantint to re-do our Master Bedroom, mostly the bedding. Currently I have a red quilt that I found on clearance. I still like it, but I want to “dress it up”. I’ve been looking for a while, but haven’t found anything.
As far as sheets, living in the Mid-West, means flannel for our family. Another bargain sale, found the day after Thanksgiving.
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I don’t iron my sheets, but I do occasionally iron our pillowcases when I’m doing my husband’s shirts. It doesn’t take long, and smooth pillowcases are really nice to sleep on. I’m reading a book now that has a lot of interesting comments about sheets and thread counts–Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelsohn. Apparently, it’s a “housewife classic,” but I’m just now getting around to it!
I feel it is my duty to answer your question of the day Melissa. I work for Anichini, a luxury bedding company. It’s a small business, woman owned, in five star hotels, and on my bed at home most of the time. There’s nothing like a good percale as far as I am concerned–cool and crisp and smelling like they just came off of Nana’s clothesline. My husband says they are “too cold” but they are just beautiful and worth the small fortune. (lucky for me to work for them!) Otherwise, I snuggle in my Laura Ashley flannel sheets found at TJMAXX (that’s what’s on my bed right now–making my husband VERY happy!)
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Hmm..we love our Ikea white sheets in the summer, with a white duvet cover and white pillows. It just feels so light and fresh. In the winter, I like to pull out our really lovely red Costco sheets (with a huge thread count), and add jewel colored pillows to spice up the white duvet cover. Right now I also have a quilt all the women in my husband’s family helped make for our wedding, folded up at the bottom of the bed. It’s all kind of crazy, with greens, blues, reds, and a smattering of mauvy pinks, but it just feels so nice and cozy, and brings some color.
A soon-to-come addition is the lavender-scented rice pack I made for my husband for Valentine’s day- that ought to warm up the cold cotton sheets at night!
And I’m sorry the “comment luv” is linking to a post from almost 2 weeks ago…even if it WAS a fun post
Not sure how to fix that 
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my favorite set is from Target, bought exactly 2 years ago, and I believe that they are the Target Home brand…anyways, they have the best feel to them, and I think I only paid $20 for the queen set. they don’t match with my room anymore, but I still use them because I LOVE them! I have the more expensive sheets from Target that do not have the same great feel to them. Hmm..?
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Cotton sateen. The thread count is not at all relevent but the quality of the mercerization finishing is: It needs to be highly polished to look at and cool and sleek in hand. I sleep on Yves Delorme, their sateens are remarkable – and one might say I am a little fussy about things like this… An aside: when I posted about this a couple of months ago and said I loved sateen, I received many emails telling me how tacky it was! Satin IS tacky. Sateen is another fabric entirely bearing no resemblence. I was surprised the fabric was not better known or appriciated! Ah, and that my taste level was not already apparent:) !!
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Ya know, I bought my first set of 500 ct sheets this winter and maybe I bought them at exactly the wrong time (the height of freezing your arse off season) but I found them to be chilly. Not to mention they feel like parachute material…but I digress…
My favorite is around 300 ct – at least in the winter.
Signed,
White trash can’t never go back.
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This IS fun!
Right now we have only 2 sets. One all white which makes me feel fresh and clean:) And one deep red for Christmas with a red and white Pottery Barn duvet cover.
I would have more types of bedding if my finances allowed.
I HAVE IRONED my Christmas duvet cover in the past – looks real nice that way.
My favorite brand – any set I can get a good deal on at TJ Maxx!
We have one set of sheets for each bed. The ones for our master bedroom were from a pre-wedding linen shower. They have held up so well! Our kids’ bed sheets are from Pottery Barn. They are really great, too. I love the pillow cases with the extra flap that tucks the end of the pillow inside.
I have never ironed my sheets. My sister does, though, and it is such a special touch whenever I stay in her guest room.
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Nice question! We carry our own line of bedlinen at the shop, made of eco cotton and natural colors, perfect to help you drift into sleep in peace!
Interesting post . I can not stand in sheets in they have not been ironed. I love cotton sheets and white
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I love to iron my pillowcases because it reminds me of my grandma who taught me how to iron by ironing her pillowcases. My pillows show on my bed, so they do look nicer even after we’ve slept on them.
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I’m getting jealous of all of your sheets!
We do flannel when it’s cold and cotton when it’s warm. We have a down topper, and I like to keep it fluffed, so I keep a flannel fitted sheet over the matress all year round, and put the topper above that. The flannel keeps it from shifting around. Then I use a top sheet to cover the topper. Our sheets rarely match, except for a pink set we use in the spring. It was from Ikea, and is a very low thread count, but nothing beats the rosy glow it gives the whole room when the sun comes in to wake us up!
And as for ironing…if i can’t be bothered to match the sheets or make the bed, do you really think I’d iron the sheets??
Great post. I am actually in the process of redecorating my bedroom, I really value everyone’s opinions and helpful hints!
I can not imagine ironing sheets! They just get wrinkly anyway.
My favorite sheets are sateen and at least 300 thread count. I just use whatever brand has deep enough pockets for our mattress. We have 4 sets of sheets, 2 sateen cotton sheet sets and 2 flannel sheet sets for winter.
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I enjoyed reading everyone’s responses. I’ve never been able to splurge for bedding but I do use cotton all the time. Anything else is just too hot! The rule has always been the last one out of bed makes it. So Hubby makes the bed …… badly
Once a week it looks passable….after I wash it! If I ever have a beautiful bedroom instead of just a room to sleep in, I want it to look like the one you showed.
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I’m not sure about the brand, but my favorite sheets are ones I found on overstock… 1200 count. Heaven.
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All 6 of the beds in my home have white sheets – the highest thread count I can find at Target – can’t remember what they are though. I iron and starch the top foot or so of the flat sheet (the part you fold back over the comforter) and all the pillowcases. It is one luxury that I really feel is worth the effort. They make me feel like I am staying in an expensive resort (instead of a house fool of teenagers)! They really don’t wrinkle in between washes I guess thanks to the starch – which is lightly scented with lemon. Seems like a long time ago I used to use a linen spray, maybe Beach Days by the Good Home Company.
Iron my sheets? I don’t even iron my clothes. I believe in getting things out of the dryer quick and an iron is an absolute LAST resort. But, never on sheets. I like the highest thread count I can afford. I love Northern Nights on QVC. They’re reasonably priced and hold up very well. We need oversized fitted sheets and they have lasted well. I have had expensive fitted sheets’ elastic break and sets that are mismatched–no problems with Northern Nights, though. 2 sets of flannel for winter, 1 set of jersey, 2 sets of crisp cotton for summer.
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I am boring, just one set that I wash and put back on. . . no ironing, but don’t clean crisp sheets feel wonderful after a long day?
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I LOVE ironing sheets. I was into it for awhile but it’s *time consuming*. The feel of cool crisp cotton sheets is worth it though. We were recently given flannel sheets and have enjoyed those in the winter months. I’m getting spring fever and I am ready to bust out my beautiful cotton pottery barn sheets….and my iron!
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great post, photo, ideas, and responses! so fun to see how everyone does bedding. i have several sheet sets of varying thread count, but only cotton. i strip the bed each monday morning, and right away put on whatever is on top in the linen closet. i love it when i DO iron them. like kathy, i learned to iron on the cotton pillowcases, watching ‘as the world turns’ on the summer porch. there’s nothing like that crisp feeling! but much of the time i just put on unironed sheets. hey, they are clean aren’t they?! and i only use white now (on all the beds). i have done color, but i just love the clean freshness of white. my bedroom is now sand and white so the linens just add to the calm of the room. sometimes i make the bed in a “closed” fashion, and sometimes it is turned down (?”open”) but either way it is made and orderly. i feel off when i go in the room and the bed hasn’t been made. (i can ignore dust, tho!!) the bed is topped off all year long with a down comforter that is huge and soooo snuggly. it never is too hot, either. i love my bed! and the room which looks wonderful thanks to all you bloggers who post beautiful pictures and give great ideas! jkj
I’m pathetic. We only have one set of sheets! They are so expensive I haven’t had the heart to buy anymore! And this set was given to us. *I blush* I don’t even really like them, we have dogs, and these sheets attract doghair like bees to honey.
Oh dear, did I just say all that outloud????
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Yes, i do iron the header on my sheets. It has a ruffle on the top as well as on edge of pillowcase. Mine are plain white as well as my blanket and I also have fakey down comforter just to lay on top in winter. I starch the header as well as the pillowcases. i usually wash and put right back on. Then i spray with some kind of spray before jumping into that beautiful bed. make it everyday too. i love beautiful beds. i also have blocks of wood to set it up higher so when i say jump into bed i mean it.
First of all, we just bought our first “new” mattress, after being married for 22 years. It is a Tempurpedic. It is wonderful! I insist on 100% cotton sheets. I like at least 300 count. I have been known to iron pillowcases and the edge of the top sheet. I don’t do this often because of lack of time. I try to keep 2 sets of sheets to alternate. I use very light or white sheets so that I can bleach them if someone has been ill. I hang them on the line if the weather is cooperating–best fragance in the world is line dried sheets!
Blessings,
Lorilee
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Hi Melissa, I don’t think I have said hi since you got back from Blissdom, but I have meant to. I loved seeing you in everyone’s photos. I hope it was wonderful.
As for bedding, I love my red toile duvet. Sheets? No clue. Whatever is on clearance at Target when I need new ones
And, um, what is ironing?
Don’t know the brand, but they are over 500 thread count and from JCPenney. I have several sets because I’m bad with laundry and don’t always get to it right away. As we speak, there are NO sheets on our bed!! GASP. My husband ripped them off and is now asleep. Don’t ask me why? I’m thinking of going upstairs to the guest room. ha!
I iron the sheets in the guest room. Our sheets come out of the dryer looking really nice so we don’t have to worry about it. My son has flannel sheets because his room is a cabin theme. They are super soft and from Pottery Barn.
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I spend more time in my bed than I do any other place, so I want it to be comfortable and beautiful! We bought a new mattress and box spring, and then decided to put a 2- or 3-inch “memory” foam top on it. Mattress protector over the mattress, fitted cotton cover over the foam topper, and then a high-count white cotton fitted sheet over that. I iron the top edge of the cotton top sheet and the cotton pillow cases, with a bit of starch. NO sateen fabric – feels too slick or slippery or something. Then a down comforter over that, because we sleep with the bedroom windows open all year round. I make the bed as soon as I stand up out of it every morning – the room feels much cleaner and more orderly with the bed made! I launder the bedding in hot hot water every Saturday morning and put them right back on the bed. I’ve used Lands End sheets, but right now I have some from The Company Store catalog. I love my comfy bed!
I have high count (not sure how high– have had them for awhile!! but they are so soft) cotton sheets all year round. I use duvet cover with insert that is not down– I have 2 sets of sheets but typically only use one and put right back on after I wash! I need a new set of sheets really but am holding out for king size bed (we have queen now!!!)
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On my bed I use a high thread count, and I like my bed made up (when I make it – oh I did say that out loud) ok – I clean houses for a JOB I make several every day, just not always my own!?!?!?!??!!!! now in my guest room – when company leaves I take the sheets off make the bed….then when preping for company I “fluff” the sheets in the dryer with a new dryer sheet – I do iron the top sheet, stretch the fitted sheet very tight, and make it as an “unmade” bed – I think it is more inviting and allows the guest to feel welcome.
I do iron the pillowcases, if I have time. I love the feel of the freshly ironed pillowcases, but I don’t always have the time. We use flannel sheets more than cotton, they usually go on in October and come off in May. We all have down comforters in duvets. All are supplemented with another blanket of some sort, one has an electric blanket, the others have extra down comforters (older ones with shifting down.)
Fanatic about clean crisp 400+ thread count IRONED white sheets. One of the few real luxuries as I am generally on the frugal side. I do iron them myself and even though they do get wrinkled when you sleep on them; I swear, if you ever start ironing your sheets you will think you have died and gone to heaven. (Of course some people think if they iron they will certainly die! ha!ha!) I make my bed everyday. I like a clean, structured look to my bed but even with extra quilts or blankets, it looks neat if it’s all folded. Treat yourself to a nice bed the way you like it…you deserve it after a long day!
I LOVE Macy’s 400 thread count damask stripe sheets. I’ve got them in a few colors – and always wanting to add more! They’re SO comfy and always smooth. I switch out the duvet covers I use – but as for the sheets – they might be different colors, but always the same style.
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What a fun topic, I would never have thought of it, but then Melissa, that is why YOU have such a fabulous blog!
HAVE to make the bed, always have, always will. I make it before I leave the bedroom the first time each day. When I am rich and famous, not that I have to worry about that any time soon, I will have deluxe, ironed crisp, just out of the refrigerator sheets changed every day, by someone else of course.
Like I said, won’t be in this life. I have 2-3 sets of master bed sheets, but usually just wash, dry and put back on, it’s just easier. A big, new problem is, now that I am alone and have to change the bed by myself, it doesn’t get done quite as often as I like, use to do it every Monday or Saturday, because I have developed some nasty arthritis in my thumbs and it KILLS them. Oh, the price of all these birthdays. For the first time ever, I now have a bed and bedroom that looks like a magazine picture and I LOVE it, just remember it takes some of us a long time to get there. 
It was such a pleasure to visit with you at BlissDom, you are delightful and just what I had pictured. Have a wonderful Valentine weekend.
This is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I remodeled my bedroom a few years ago and purchased really expensive sheets with 1000+ thread count. At the time I thought it was crazy to spend that kind of money on sheets, but I can tell you that every night when I slip between those sheets I don’t think of the money I spent but about the unbelievable way they feel (and make me feel) So worth the money!! I got them here http://www.betweenthesheetsinc.com/category/4/1/sheet-sets.html and they are on sale right now!
Okay, I do iron sheets. Sorry. Sick I know but I have discovered a new spray starch called Best Press http://patches.typepad.com/notes_from_the_patch/2008/08/a-pressing-issu.html
and it actually makes ironing fun! I only iron the pillowcase and top sheet. We have a weekend home with lots of guests and I love the way a well make bed with it’s crisp sheets makes my guests feel welcome.
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Over the years my mom has given me 400-600 thread count Ralph Lauren sheets, and they’re OK, but not soft enough and I wear holes in them every 3 years or so. I think I had a set of sateen Fieldcrest sheets that were much softer, but they didn’t shine like other people are saying their sateen sheets do. I also wore through those in a few years.
I was at a friend’s house and her guest bed sheets were a thousand times softer than my old Fieldcrest ones, and she doesn’t remember the brand, only that she got them from Overstock and they were at least 400 thread count. Also she said they didn’t soften until after she washed them a few times. But I don’t want to spend $100 on sheets only to wash them a few times, find out they’re not soft at all, and then not be able to return them.
I’m surprised there weren’t more brand recommendations out of 100 comments, but I will look into those BB&B beech sheets that a few people mentioned as being soft.