Your Blanket Situation

When poking around the Internets yesterday I came across this piece:

from: Scandinavian Style: Two Duvets on One Bed | Apartment Therapy

It put me in mind of when my husband and I first got together. We used separate comforters because I prefer a heavier comforter and he likes a lighter one. When we got a new bed, we bought a comforter to share with a duvet. We share, but not always comfortably; sometimes we switch back to separate blankets, especially on nights with lots of tossing and turning. I still sleep with an extra comforter on top of the duvet. I also like extra blanket--I like to burrito myself.
How about you? Have you ever tried using two separate comforters to avoid relationship conflict? Do you have a hard time sharing the blankets?

 

Like you, we have a king sized comforter on a queen sized bed.

But we also have tons of blankets all over the house.
We believe in comfort at home.

 

We have two sets of blankets. Sometimes we'll still share when we are falling asleep, or more often when it's morning and we are laying in bed awake together for a few minutes. But she is a violent sleeper who likes a lot of covers all twisted around her. I lay fairly still and am usually good with a sheet, or a sheet and a blanket over my legs.

 

It took us over 10 years, but we finally went with the two sets of blankets recently. This was for a number of reasons.

1. I tend to steal. Not for myself, mind you, but for the poor: I deposit the blankets on the floor.
2. She tends to think the sheet is arbitrary, which I think is a barbaric thought.
3. We have different ideas of how blankets are to be used. She "cocoons"; I like mine high and loose.
4. We have different temperature tolerances; she gets cold easily, while I overheat easily.
5. She goes to bed 1 to 3 hours before I do each night. It's much, much easier coming to bed without disturbing her if I don't have to peel her "cocoon."

 

We have 2 sængs from Iceland. It works so much better than the 1 queen size down comforter. We bought ours from Dún og fiður about 7 years ago. They were not cheap and continue to challenge us because we get new linens for them when we go to Iceland. We've thought about having some duvet covers made for them. We have the material ready just haven't had them made yet.

Some say that it's no "cozy" or "cuddly" because they are two separate covers. That's just silly, We still share space under both of them, just no reason to have one affect the other when it's cold out.

Besides, if you like to stick your foot out for temperature control, think about this, you can only put out the foot that's not in the middle. I can do either depending on which I prefer.

 

This is why I prefer a duvet. I hate a top sheet; I feel like I'm going to be strangled by it. Luckily for me, my husband hates sheets too.

 

I like the feel of the light and soft top sheet as an intermediary between me and the duvet/comforter. I hate the feel of the heavier covers directly on my skin. A nice cotton sheet is like a comfortable pair of underwear between me and my jeans.

 

I really wish we'd gone with a king-size duvet/comforter when we bought ours. It would have worked out better, I think. I hate the space that results between us when we're both trying to roll the blanket under ourselves and we're facing opposite directions.

 

We have a full size bed with an over-sized queen comforter. My husband is a heater, so he uses only a sheet for most of the year. During those times we usually have 2 top sheets on the bed - one on top of the other, not beside each other. We do this because he usually wraps himself in a cocoon with one sheet and I just loosely use the second sheet. He usually folds over the comforter onto me to make me doubly warm. It works well. In the winter, I add a couple of small blankets under the comforter for myself and he still usually tosses most of the comforter in my direction. I have no idea how he always gives me all the blankets, especially since we switch up who sleeps on which side every few nights. There have only been a couple of times over the past 6 years where the blankets ended up on the floor on the other side of him. He says I don't take the covers from him, but sometimes I wonder.