by admin on July 16, 2009
Comforters & duvets are versatile and functional ways to decorate your bed with a sense of fashion. With the variety of fabrics available for these bedding covers, and the ease in which you can change them, sets of duvet and comforter covers are one of the quickest, most fabulous, and most low-priced ways to change the look of your bedroom.
What’s the difference between a comforter and a duvet?
Comforter – A quilted and filled blanket that you are able to wash. Synthetic fibers are commonly used for filling. There are an endless number of different colors and textures that they are made from.
Duvet – A dry-clean only quilted and filled blanket. Typically stuffed with down feathers. They are generally unembellished and come in white or off-white.
When shopping for a Duvet, examine the amount of fill. FILL is the cubic inches per ounce of down. Warmer duvets have a higher fill number. Also higher numbers tend to be better quality in general.
Most fill numbers are in the 500-550 range. Higher quality is between 600-700. And very high (and very expensive) fill numbers are over 700.
Down comforters are also identified by the region and time of year they were manufactured for. “summer” or “southern” weight duvets are the lightest type. A queen size summer duvet is about 26 ounces. Moving up to the “mountain” or “winter” weights, you would expect a queen size to come in at around 54 ounces.
The casing of the duvet, call the ticking, should be lightweight. The shell should also be made of down-proof fabric.
How a duvet is stiched is very important. The down inside of a duvet needs to be able to puff up (loft). Baffles and channels are the most common type of stitching. These help to distribute the down evenly throughout the comforter. Without properly stitched baffels, all of the down will have a tendency to bunch up at the bottom of the duvet. This can be fixed by shaking the comforter to redistribute them again. But with properly baffled stitching, you shouldn’t have to do this as often.
Duvets are made to be covered by a removable case, kind of like a huge pillow case. This helps to protect the duvet and keep it clean. Because you are allowed to wash comforters, you don’t need to use a cover with them. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t use a duvet cover for your comforter.
The wonderful thing about comforter covers is that no matter how ancient or unattractive a comforter may be, dressing it up can give it a new life and a new purpose. If you live in a typical household have several old blankets, pillows, and comforters hidden away in the attic or under beds. Bring them out of the closet and make them useful again by throwing a comforter cover on and let them give your bedroom a makeover.
Comforter coverings are a easyway to change the mood of your bedroom without having to repaint or refurnish. Your bed is typically the main focus of your bedroom because it takes up such a large portion of the room. Because of its relatively large scale, it automatically draws the eye to it. No matter what else you have as far as decorating elements, your bed, or more specifically your comforter, is what will specify the style of your room.
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Your home should be somewhere for you to fully relax, and not just something that you moved into some time ago and still doesn’t feel comfortable. Regardless of its size or location, a home needs to feel like a palace! The way to do this is not to spend extortionate amounts of money on lavish works of art, but simply to decorate it how you would like, and with today’s home design boom, there are plenty of options for you to try.
As with all big projects, home decoration needs a bit of thought put into it, which includes some good research. You need to decide on a theme that you like, as all homes are centred around some sort of theme even though you may not realise. You can do this by reading through decorating magazines and books, and watching programmes about decorating on TV, and soon you will find that one style sticks out to you more than the others.
All themes are linked very closely with a colour scheme, which is the next thing that you need to consider when decorating your home. You will be aware that for example an Indian theme has many reds, dark blues and blacks, whereas a Mediterranean theme would have mainly whites, yellows and oranges. Whichever theme you choose, you need to link it with some particular colours to avoid your home looking disjointed and out of place.
Creativity is vital in the decoration process, and you need to play around with possibilities. If the house was originally built with a dining room and a huge kitchen, that doesn’t mean that you have to use the dining room for what it was intended if you plan to eat in the space you have in the kitchen. Think about what else you could use that defunct dining room for; a study perhaps, or a home library.
Ok, so you’ve decided exactly how each room is going to look and what you are going to use it for. The next step is to decide which room you are going to decorate first and what you need for it. So empty the room, as you won’t want to be climbing over furniture to paint the walls, and head down to your local DIY shop, where you can buy supplies. First you will need paint or wallpaper.
With regards to applying the paint, you will need some sort of brush, pad or roller. If you go with brushes, buy decent quality ones that don’t shed bristles. If you don’t you will end up with just the handle of a brush left, and a wall textured with all the bristles, which is why for larger walls pads or rollers are recommended, so you don’t need to worry about bad brushes. Pads and rollers also make the job much quicker, although rollers can be very messy, so anything in the room, including you, needs to be fully covered up.
But don’t jump straight in with painting the walls, make sure that you know exactly what is going to go in the room first, as you wouldn’t forgive yourself if you had just finished painting the walls, were out buying a new tin of paint, and spotted a lovely table in the furniture shop next door, that really didn’t go with the colour.
The most important thing about decorating is to make it enjoyable. Not only will the task be much less arduous, but you will also end up with a better product. So have some fun, do it with a friend, and then when you have finished a particular room, use it for a couple of days and enjoy your creation before starting on the next one.
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