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top sheet get tucked, duvet is loose so that the bf can leave his feet out and mine can stay in...but I don't have a low bed.

Depends on the bed and the duvet (or comforter). Platform bed with tailored duvet = tucked. Regular bed with dust ruffle and fluffy comforter = draped. In between situations = whatever looks best for that combination.

I'm lazy and have always preferred to drape. Sadly, now that I have a futon instead of a springy mattress, I have to tuck. Otherwise there's blanket all over the floor.

The summer-weight duvet gets tucked, but the one I use in the winter is too puffy so it gets draped. Best of both worlds.

My duvet is too puffy to tuck. It would just look like an overstuffed sausage if I tucked it. I would like to get a quilt for the summer and that would be tucked.

everything must be draped so my feet can come out at night, that is more important than how it looks.

Draper here (sadly, not Don). I love the tucked look, but don't know how to do it. Whenever I try, the ends of the mattress doesn't lay flat. Is there a tutorial out there somewhere?

I'm half and half. I tuck in along the foot of the bed and leave the sides draped. This achieves enough of a tuck to make sure the covers stay on the bed, but enough looseness that I can move freely.

I think a tucked in duvet is kind of strange looking unless you've got a high bed and a bedskirt. Also, I only tuck in the bottom of the duvet at the foot of the bed because it looks neat and won't slide around. When sleeping though I untuck the foot of the bed.

I tuck everything in at the end of the bed only. Otherwise I get claustrophobic when things are all tucked in around me.

It is winter so our bed is extremely layered right now! The top layer drapes. Everything underneath tucks.

I tuck in everything at the end so that it doesn't go flopping around in the night (I'm a sleep-kicker). If I had a neat bed that had edges to show off--like a cool platform--I would tuck everything in, but only when company was over.

And is the pup in the photo a Frenchie or a really white Boston?

I would tuck in everywhere with hospital corners...but sadly the bf kicks everything off and out and all over the place.

Tuck in the sheets and blanket, fold the duvet in half and drape over the lower half of the bed.

Tucking a duvet would damage it, and break the down (or feathers) inside. Duvets are meant to sit on top.

In Europe, few places use a top sheet in addition to a duvet -- it is considered unnecessary. Actually, in most European countries people use individual duvets (no queen or king sizes) which are folded in half when the bed is made.

draped, folded at the foot of the bed. The nice thing about living in Europe is that we tend to not use top sheets. So, all I have to do in the morning is fluff the duvet a bit and fold! A clean, made bed in 30 seconds!

I'm much too lay to tuck. My bed would never get made if I did.

:) Bacon is so big now! Hi Bacon!

Who has time in the morning to tuck? Not me, at least.

You MAKE time in the morning to... oh, you said TUCK. Nevermind.

Does anyone know where this duvet cover is from?

Chelsea... I think West Elm makes one similar...
http://www.westelm.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?partNumber=WE-PRODb437&storeId=17001&langId=-1&catalogId=17002&viewSetCode=E&parentId=WE-SH1BEDDUV&retainNav=true&cmsrc=WE-SH1BEDDUV

Chelsea, I am pretty sure the duvet is from Anthropologie. I've been eyeing it/drooling over it for weeks now. Here's the link:
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=6800310230171709453&id=69300&parentid=SLEEP_BEDDING_DUVETS&pushId=SLEEP_BEDDING_DUVETS&popId=SLEEP_BEDDING&sortProperties=&navCount=11&navAction=poppush&fromCategoryPage=true&selectedProductSize=&selectedProductSize1=&color=oce&colorName=OCEAN

i just like the dog!

I drape the duvet over the tucked-in sheets. BUT, this is what keeps me neat AND sane: I pin the duvet to the sheet at the top, bottom, and sides of the bed. I pin through the top sheet and the duvet, but not through the wired part of the electric blanket, so I have, basically, an electric-blanket sandwich.

This is a modification of the Armenian way of making a bed (they use more pins than I do).

Also, my top sheet and my bottom sheet are sewn together at the bottom of the bed. The bed will NEVER become unmade or messy looking.

Barb

bacon!!!

LOL, Patrick, (t.o.o.)

I'd love to see some pics of European style beds--especially with individual comforters. I'd like to see, as well, how not using a top sheet and folding the comforter works with a box spring. Or do they use platform beds more often?

I use a fitted sheet but no top sheet and a down duvet which is never tucked in.

I love my draped, hanging duvet because it allows me to tuck the bottom up under my feet at night, making a cozy little barrier from monsters under the bed (yes, this is a remnant from childhood that still comforts me today). If I had a beautiful platform bed though, I would have to convert to the tucked look and just assume that if the sheets are tucked under a mattress, nothing could get through anyway :)

Oh, Bacon. You are perfection in a dog suit. That Anthropologie duvet ain't bad, either.

we converted to the euro style of bedmaking (i.e. sans topsheets) after falling in love with duvets our london hotel--since neither of us was a habitual bedmaker, being able to just drape it over the bed has rendered us a lot more neat-looking... our room & board parsons bed has a sort of a footboard frame thing, so we tuck the end between that & our very large mattress and that is enough for us. granted our dog sleeps at the foot of the bed so we do have something of an anchor...?!

OK, here's an option no one has mentioned...as a

Sry for duplicate...

Here's the option, as a professional designer, people hire me because they are stuck or are looking for alternative solutions to their design dilemmas. Try this instead;get some very nice monogrammed or piped sheets, tuck them in tight and take your duvet and fold it accordian style at the foot of the bed. This is a fabulous look: don't forget the mints under the pillow!

I use a queen-sized comforter on a king-sized bed. I tuck in the bottom, and leave the sides untucked. The queen comforter width is almost the exact width of a king bed, so there is not any overhang of the comforter. It works very well, and gives an attractive clean appearance!

ps: the queen comforter on a king bed only works for a sunken mattress such as on the Malm bed from Ikea.