Change a Duvet Cover
Changing a duvet cover seems simple in theory, but it can be a hassle trying to fit a puffy duvet in through small duvet cover opening. Changing a duvet cover is not unlike putting a pillowcase onto a pillow, except for the fact that a duvet doesn’t have the firmness of a pillow and it tends to twist inside the cover. While changing a duvet can be a challenge, there are a couple changing methods that can ease the process, especially if you’re working alone.
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Changing The Duvet The Traditional Way
- Lay the duvet on the bed. Lay the duvet comforter flat on the mattress so it is all spread out. Be sure that the long side of the duvet is running lengthwise on the bed, and the shorter side of the duvet is running the width of the bed. Also make sure that the tag on the duvet is at the head of the bed.
- Having the tag at the head of the bed will ensure that the tag ends up at the bottom of the duvet cover when you insert the duvet into the cover.
- Turn the duvet cover inside out. Stand at the foot of the bed and spread the duvet cover out and on top of the duvet, with the open end of the duvet cover near you. This doesn’t have to be perfectly neat, just spread out enough that you can see the different corners of the duvet cover. Reach your hands into the duvet cover through the bottom opening. Reach until you can grab onto the two top corners of the cover near the head of the bed.
- Grab the left corner with your left hand, and the right corner with your right hand. Pull these two inside corners toward you, out through the duvet cover opening, to turn the cover inside out.
- Once the duvet cover is turned inside out, once again lay it over the duvet with the opening of the cover near you.
- Grab the corners of the duvet. With the duvet cover inside out, once again reach through the cover opening to grab onto the two top corners of the cover. Once you have a hold on the top two corners of the duvet cover, bring your hands down near the end of the bed to grab onto the bottom two corners of the actual duvet comforter.
- Your hands should look like you’re wearing mittens as your grab the bottom two corners of the duvet.
- This would be the time that you would fasten any closures that the duvet or duvet cover has so the corners of the duvet stay in place within the cover while you use the blanket. These closures might be buttons or some sort of tying arrangement.
- You may have to momentarily remove your hands from inside the duvet cover to fasten these closures. Once they are fastened, you can reinsert your hands into the cover.
- Shake the duvet cover onto the duvet. Through the duvet cover's two top corners, hold tightly onto the two bottom corners of the actual duvet. Flip the duvet cover over your hands while still holding onto the duvet corners, and shake the cover on to the duvet.
- Be sure to hold on tight as you shake the duvet cover onto the duvet. This will help ensure that all corners of the duvet are spread out to all corners inside the duvet cover.
- Powerfully shake the duvet and duvet cover as if you are trying to wave a blanket evenly onto a bed.
- You can also stand on the edge of the bed and hold the top two corners of the duvet and duvet cover, to evenly shake the cover over the duvet.
- You may have to pull the last portion of the cover over the bottom of the duvet and tuck in the corners.
- Spread the duvet onto the bed. Once the duvet is completely inside the duvet cover, fasten the inside closures on the two bottom corners of the duvet and duvet cover (if your duvet and duvet cover have any). Once the inside closures are secure, you can close the duvet cover opening at the foot of the bed.
- Give your duvet a little shake and pull on all side to make sure the duvet is spread out evenly.
Changing The Duvet Using The Rolling Method
- Turn the duvet cover inside out. Just how you turned the duvet cover inside out in the first method, you’re going to turn your duvet cover inside out for this second method. Reach in through the bottom opening of the duvet cover and grab the two top, inside corners. Pull these inside corners down and out through the cover opening.
- Once the duvet cover is inside out, hold onto the corners and shake it a bit to spread the cover out over the bed.
- Be sure that the duvet cover opening is at the foot of the bed.
- Lay the duvet on top of the cover. Fully spread out the duvet comforter on top of the duvet cover. Make sure the duvet corners align neatly with the duvet cover corners.
- The long side of both the duvet and duvet cover should run along the length of the bed, and the short side of both the duvet and duvet cover should run along the width of the bed.
- Secure any fasteners. If your duvet and duvet cover have fasteners on the corners to keep the duvet corners secured into the corners of the duvet cover, attach those now.
- These fasteners might be small buttons and buttonholes, elastic pieces with buttons, or small strings that tie together.
- Roll the duvet and duvet cover. From the top of the bed, roll the duvet and duvet cover down to the end of the bed. Roll as if you are rolling a burrito. Try your best to roll both the duvet and duvet covers evenly all the way to the end of the bed.
- If you are by yourself, you can roll the duvet and duvet cover from the middle of the bed. If you have someone to help you, you both can stand on the sides of the bed, and roll evenly, together.
- Invert the duvet cover. Once completely rolled at the foot of the bed, put your hand in the duvet cover opening, and grab the entire rolled side portion of your duvet and duvet cover. Flip the side of the duvet cover over the side portion you are still holding onto. Once the duvet cover is flipped over the one side of the roll, do the exact same thing on the other side of the roll.
- When both sides of the roll have been flipped and are covered by the sides of the duvet cover, even out the rest of the duvet. Flip the middle portion of the duvet cover over the middle portion of the duvet.
- Unroll the duvet and duvet cover. Unroll the duvet and duvet cover back up toward the top of the bed. Fasten the opening of the duvet cover either by buttoning or zipping the cover flaps together. Shake out the corners and sides of the duvet to flatten out and bunched up areas.
- You can use this same rolling and unrolling method to also removing your duvet cover.
Tips
- Make sure the duvet isn't bigger than the cover. Not all duvets and covers are standardized in size.
- For changing larger duvets, it helps to have two people.
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