Mismatch Your Duvet Cover for the Fluffiest Bed
Your bed can look as luxurious, warm, and fluffy as they do in catalogs and magazines. Gravity isn’t going to make it easy and will pull down even your thickest blanket, but fortunately, there’s a simple way to make your bedspread look more voluminous than usual.
Mismatch your duvet cover
This tip comes from TikTokker @Nalae.co, who recently shared how to get the “fluffiest bed ever.” You need a bedspread that is one size too big for your duvet cover. Here, watch:
By stuffing a too-big duvet into a too-small cover, you’ll expand the cover with extra fluff. Make sure the duvet cover size corresponds to the size of your actual mattress, though, so it’s not too small to cover your bed. Only the bedspread you stuff inside should be mismatched, and it should be one size bigger than your mattress and cover.
Picking the right duvet cover
Maximize your fluff by getting a cover that is, itself, fluffy. Try these:
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This furry duvet cover from Amazon retails for $46, but you can use a 20% off coupon with it right now, too
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This tufted duvet cover from Walmart is $72.36 and features textures that will make your bed look even bigger and more luxurious
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This frilled duvet cover from Target is $80.09 on sale and has scalloped edges that add to the visual volume of the bedding
Stay away from flat covers or ones made of heavy materials and aim for light materials that won’t drag down. When stuffing your cover, try the “burrito” or “tie” methods to limit the amount of frustration you experience stuffing the over-large bedspread into its new container. And for added fluffiness all around, don’t forget your throw pillows.
Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and relationships beat. She spent most of her pre-Lifehacker career covering media and politics for outlets like Us Weekly, CNN, The Daily Dot, Mashable, Glamour, and InStyle. In recent years, her freelancing has focused on drug use and the overdose crisis, with pieces appearing in Vanity Fair, WIRED, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, and more. Her story for BuzzFeed News won the 2022 American Journalism Online award for Best Debunking of Fake News.
In addition to her journalism, Lindsey is a student at the NYU School of Global Public Health, where she is working toward her Master of Public Health and conducting research on media bias in reporting on substance use with the Opioid Policy Institute’s Reporting on Addiction initiative. She is also a Schwinn-certified spin class teacher. She won a 2023 Dunkin’ Donuts contest that earned her a year of free coffee. Lindsey lives in New York, NY.
