apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

You know what also works? Putting a sheet or bedspread between the mattress and box spring and letting it hang over the edge. It's so simple.

I have a bed that looks exactly like this one, ordered from a company in Hamburg, Germany. It's very clean and modern and for washing I simply remove it (it's on via velcro) and throw it in the washer. The best thing about it (and the #1 reason why I purchased a bed with a skirt) is that in a small apartment you can store so much beneath it unseen in covered bins. If you don't have space issues then perhaps it wouldn't matter to you, but to me in a small city apartment with only bedroom, it was the perfect place to store extra jackets and shoes in bins with wheels.

Great work, Benita. As always. :)

Holly

Thanks for this! I have been looking for a simple, clean-lined solution to hide the under-bed storage we are using! I'm not much of a sewe, so this is great!

http://www.makemineeclectic.wordpress.com

Thanks for this solution. I have a really high profile bed and was trying to figure out a way to make a bed skirt without buying something full of ruffles. This way I can have whatever color bed skirt I desire as well.

Leah

I've been meaning to make a skirt for a looong time, and this one is great. I don't have an overlay mattress, but... I'm sure I can tinker this to my needs.

I am secretly smiling about this post because last spring I was shopping at cb2 (where I bought a beautiful white duvet cover and shams), and asked if they had any skirts. The snotty salesguy gave me a look and informed me that they don't carry them because they are soooooo out of fashion. Heh! So of course I found one somewhere else, that has the same effect as the one above. Yay me!

I was so inspired, I went home last night and made a totally no-sew version of Benita's bed skirt. (Hemming? Who has time for hemming?)

http://bromeliadliving.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-100-no-sew-bedskirt.html