My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you are done.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs</a><p>same method, but in video form.
” Imagine replacing your duvet cover in minutes”
When i was 18 and begun my career I hospitality, we’d change a twin bed completely in like 3-4 minutes. How do you spend minutes with just one duvet (excluding disabilities but that’s quite obvious).
Also, this is why Swedish duvet covers have holes in the upper corners, just reach through them and grab the liner and pull it in, shake a bit, and you’re done.
I am generally what one would consider an intelligent person in most respects (university professor doing research in STEM involving plenty of math, etc.) but for some reason, I am totally unable to understand how this technique works.<p>I can follow the instructions, I know that it works, and I have a vague, superficial idea of why it's plausible for it to work (something like "things are inverted twice so it turns out OK") but I am unable to make a mental model of exactly how and why it works.<p>I find this quite annoying because it also makes me forget the technique every time (typically I remember things because I understand them, and I don't understand this... for me, the correct way to do it is equally plausible as other alternatives, so I forget the correct steps). I do it together with my wife and she always has to give me detailed step-by-step instructions as if I were a kid, and I think she thinks I'm trolling her because for her it's obvious, but I'm not trolling.<p>It's funny how one's mind can have weaknesses of this kind. (Related to the same weakness, I also get confused and spend a few seconds thinking when a sweater has its sleeves outside in or when I have to recover something from a coat pocket with the coat hanging, sometimes I actually put on the coat to avoid thinking about where the pocket is, but the duvet replacing thing is the most extreme manifestation because not even by stopping and thinking can I understand how it works).
I wasn't even aware duvets were still used outside of hotels. You guys don't just have sheets and a regular blanket on your bed? Is it a cultural/regional thing? They seem very annoying to deal with and I've never found them to be particularly comfortable, so I'm surprised so many people here seem to use them.
Where I'm from we have holes in the top corners of the cover. Just put your arms in there, grab the duvet and pull it in, shake it a bit, done (additionally you might need to fix the bottom corners and shake again). I was surprised when I went to other countries where you have to fiddle with only a bottom opening.
For a queen size duvet I just stuff the entire duvet inside the cover and then align the two corners farthest from the hole, pinch from the outside and shake, takes less than a minute if I'm in a rush and no inversion required. I do have very long arms though, and maybe this would be faster for a king size duvet cover.
This practice of roll-invert-unroll is very common in India. I recall putting on liners on beddings and blankets when I was ~6 year old in the 1990s.<p>I didn't realize until I saw comments that it's not the normal way here in western parts. I think may be hospitality industry may use it already and not commonly documented.
Thanks for documenting it. Now I have a blog to point to when teaching my kids.
I just put the duvet into the cover, making sure two corners of the duvet go to the deepest corners of the cover, then stand on bed, hold those two corners and shake for a few seconds, then lay it flat on the bed and adjust as required. Takes 30 seconds, plus time for closing the fasteners.<p>My wife introduced me to an interesting and possibly KKK-inspired method where she would wear the duvet cover inside out, totally covering herself, and then pick up two corners of the duvet with her hands inside two corners of the cover. Then she'd reverse the cover off herself onto the duvet, from which point her method was the same as mine. I found it hilarious.<p>Everybody's different...
Somewhat relatedly, if you use elasticised fitted sheets, you may not be aware (I wasn’t for the first 25 years of my life) there is a simple trick to being able to fold them neatly when not in use.<p>Essentially you fold it twice so that all four corners are “on top” of each other, then you tuck all the elasticised corners into each other.<p>You should now have it looking quite neat with one corner being a little cut off, but still otherwise neat, see step 4 here: <a href="https://images.app.goo.gl/yfg4BnqxjuB2ztwv6" rel="nofollow">https://images.app.goo.gl/yfg4BnqxjuB2ztwv6</a><p>You can then fold it over in what ever way you want to make it rectangular.
Related question: what method do you use to keep the duvet in place inside the cover?<p>I have some animal themed safety pins that my parents used on my duvet since I was a child. I put four of them in a square shape around the middle of the cover when the duvet is inside.
I think you might also just roll the inner up, stick it the bottom of a collapsed cover, then grab both an exposed inner corner + side of the cover in each hand and stand up with it, shaking a bit to get it to unroll on the way down.
In Australia a duvet is called a “doona” and while there are some perverts who use a sheet between person and doona (these are people who don’t like to wash doona covers), fitted-sheet=>sleeper=>doona is the standard
I couldn't understand past the part where it was rolled down to the bottom, Fig 6.<p>However, this was never a problem for me. I simply grab the top corner of the inner part and match it inside with inside corner of the outer part. Then the other top corner. Then pull them both to the top of the bed, then fix the bottom—easy.
I go into the duvet cover with the duvet. Hold the two upper corners, put the duvet cover over your head, attach each corner of the duvet to the corresponding corner in the duvet cover (I buy ones with strings for this purpose). Then extricate yourself, hold the corners you just attached, shake vigorously, handle fine alignment of the bottom corners, and button the thing up.<p>I am sure people will make fun of this but I get it done in a minute (buttoning all the buttons at the bottom is the hardest part), and I do wash it every 2 weeks, so... poke fun all you want, at least I'm not rolling around in filth from a month ago.
Been doing this for years, sans the roll/unroll. After tying the corners, reach all the way inside the inside-out cover, grab the two corners furthest from the opening, pull all the way through, and shake.
If you’re only changing your duvet cover once a month (or less) you’re sleeping under a sheet under the duvet, right?<p>We don’t do sheets and are in the change once a week camp.
Kakebuton's are the easiest to put on and take off. I don't know why they don't have it in the west:<p><a href="https://www.japanache.com.au/contents/media/kakebuton%20cover.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.japanache.com.au/contents/media/kakebuton%20cove...</a>
> Other expert voices say we should be doing this fortnightly, or even weekly.<p>Even as a bachelor I wouldn’t wait two weeks to change the duvet covers, I hope most people change the covers when the change sheets?
This can be easily solved by having 2 holes at the top corners, it makes life so much easier when adjusting and inserting the duvet. No need for any convoluted methods like roll-invert-unroll.
I vary it based on if the cover came out the machine inside out or not.<p>If it did, I spread out the duvet, burrow inside the cover, grab the far corners of the cover from the inside and then through it also the corners of the duvet at the same time, and invert it.<p>If it came out the right way round, I spread out the <i>cover</i>, grab two corners of the duvet, burrow inside the cover <i>with</i> the two corners of the duvet until they reach their destination, and come out again.
My preferred technique is to grab a corner, crawl inside the duvet and pin it to the corresponding corner. Then I crawl out and repeat with the opposite corner. From there, I just pull the front two corners over the comforter then button/zip it up then furl it out. I'm not saying this is the best method but it works fine for me. My wife has no techniques that work for her, lol.
I really miss Japanese duvet/futon covers; the corners have holes for the duvet to stick through, and the duvet has velcro straps that attach to loops on the cover. Every duvet/cover I own lacks this totally basic thing that prevents the duvet from falling all to one side of the cover.
In Sweden all covers <i>used</i> to have holes in the upper corners.<p>Really easy, just stick your hands in and pull the duvet out.<p>Rumor has it thay IKEA stopped selling covers with holes at the top because lots of people came back and said they were broken. And now others are doing the same.<p>Using duvet covers is very common in Sweden.
I don't see this method working very well for me since I always use duvets that are wider than the bed, which I thought was the norm. Same width as the bed makes for tug-of-war with the sleeping partner.<p>120 cm wide bed -> 150 cm duvet,
140-160 cm bed -> 240 cm duvet
The correct technique is to replace a duvet cover by going to the store and purchasing a comforter. Ideally, purchase two comforters and alternate the one you’re washing with the one you’re using so that the bed is never without one.<p>:-)
Kinda off topic but what is the name of the background on this blog? i.e. those patterns do they have a name? My mom used to have the same patterns on some sheets as a kid but no clue what they're called?
Holy crap!<p>I've been wrestling with duvet covers the wrong way my whole life!<p>The Rachael Ray video @sandesh247 posted shows how simple this is.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs</a>
I just hold the duvet by the two front corners, shove it inside the cover and find the edges. Hold the edges from the outside of the cover, shake. Takes 30 seconds.<p>We also change it weekly, sleeping in the same covers for a month sounds disgusting.
Clearly inferior to the "crawl inside the cover" method. Where's the step where I chase my partner around the room making ghostly "woo woo" noises?
Next up: he learns how to slice bread.<p>But seriously, why is this news worthy? My grandmother showed me how to do this way before this guy was even born.