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I stopped doing this when my legs would fall asleep almost every night and I didn't know why. It was painful. I thought I had restless leg syndrome, or blood issues. Then I realized that my blankets were tucked in too tight at the bottom!!
Been fine ever since I stopped. I don't care about my messy bed now.

Um... I've never seen a hospital that makes its beds quite as illustrated above. Martha Stewart, queen of precision homekeeping, I think demonstrates the more definitive method here: http://www.marthastewart.com/article/how-to-make-a-bed?autonomy_kw=making%20bed

My boyfriend makes a disaster of any tucked in sheets every night, so it's shove and go or nothing for me. Feels just the same as a neatly tucked in bed and takes a fraction of the time. Neat and tidy I am not.

My husband tucks in his top sheet whereas I don't, as I feel trapped in them if they're tucked. Hence why we have two separate top sheets. Makes for a messy bed, but a good night's sleep. And Martha Stewart can suck it if she objects.

They teach everyone how to do this in the military...
...some things you never forget.

Lindsey would be enrolled in remedial military bedmaking 101 for sure ;-)

Flat sheets are the devils work. As someone over 6 feet tall, I can't sleep in a bed with a tucked in flat sheet (all beds except Cali kings are only 6'). Duvet and comforter is a better way to go, if you ask me. More sophisticated and less painful.

love the tips but will still prefer the housekeeping staff or others to do it for me. Oh to have hotel turn down service at home

Thanks

I'm short and I also dislike flat sheets. I don't like having my feet trapped. A duvet makes it much easier to keep the bed neat.

amed studio, Martha's instructions are the same. She just does it more neatly than the one here.

I learned how to do hospital corners when I worked as a maid in a crummy little resort in Illinois for my first summer job at 17.

Standard mattress length in the US is 75" or 6' 3".

I have jersey beech sheets, which are extraordinarily soft and have some stretch. Since they're both slightly clingy and stretchy, folding them this way helps them stay in place without feeling like I'm sleeping in a tourniquet, so I always make the bed this way.

On a side note, I love the feel of the sheets, but they have a tendency to pill and lose that great softness.

Same here, Spanky, I learned as a hotel maid in a summer job. We worked in teams and put both sheets on at the same time. We each grabbed two corners of both sheets and whoosh, they were both flat on the bed at once, then we proceeded to make the bed. We put them on so tight an Army sergeant could bounce the proverbial quarter.

For those who don't like the sheets folded in, you don't have to. I don't fold in all the way up the side, just at the end. And yes, mine look much neater than in the pictures.

As a hospital corner advocate, I'm really glad AT tried to illustrate how to make proper hospital corners, but these are the messiest hospital corners I've ever seen!!

mpls,
at least in North America Full-King size beds are 6'6 and Cali Kings are 7'.

As you can see, I'm still learning. One of the great things about Apartment Therapy is learning with everyone in this blogging community. I'll work on making my sheets neater!

As a recent grad, I still learned how to do this in nursing school! It definitely looks nice, but seems a little old fashioned to expect us all to have time to make beds that pretty! I'll be saving them for any guest rooms I might have in the future.