A Boring Story About Choosing a Duvet Cover

Here is the longest, most boring story ever on how I finally chose our duvet cover. Sometimes I think it's weird that I write posts about my bed linens. You do too? Oh good, I'm glad that awkwardness is out of the way. ;)

 

So, a few months ago Alex and I splurged and bought a king-sized bed and new headboard. It was, and still is, glorious.

 

The only glitch was that not too long before the aforementioned-glorious-event I had purchased a new quilt, duvet cover, and sheet set for our queen-sized bed. Doh.

 

Old queen-sized bed linens.

 

Old queen-sized bed linens.

 

Not wanting to spend more money, I decided that we could make do with the old (but still kind of new) queen-sized duvet, duvet cover, and quilt on our king-sized bed.

 

Yeaaaaaaaaaah. We fought about who was hogging the too-small covers for seven months before we bit the bullet and picked up a king-sized duvet at Homesense a few weeks ago. Obviously the old bedding was too small. Way too small. And looked.....  how do I put this.... stupid.

 

We bought a duvet but needed a duvet cover. Oh, decisions.

 

I had had a crush on this set from Pottery Barn for over two years:

 

Image: Pottery Barn

 

 

Image: Pottery Barn

 

I'm pretty sure that it's the dreamiest of all duvet covers. 'Cept I just couldn't justify the price tag:

 

Vintage Ticking Stripe Duvet Cover & Two Standard Shams - Pottery Barn

Items Subtotal: CAD 297.57
Shipping: CAD 25.26
Duties & Taxes: CAD 37.73
Order Total: CAD 360.56

            

So. I started looking around and thought that this duvet cover from West Elm was really pretty as well:

 

Image: West Elm

 

 But again, I just couldn't justify the cost:

 

Organic Braided Matelasse Duvet Cover & Shams - West Elm

Items Subtotal: CAD 257.77
Shipping: CAD 26.83
Duties & Taxes: CAD 39.55
Order Total: CAD 324.15

 

Then........ just when I was in the depths of no-duvet-cover despair I wandered into a very expensive (yikes) home décor store and spied a soft blue and white striped quilt, just like the duvet cover from Pottery Barn. The price tag was still pretty hefty ($270) but it was $100 cheaper than the Pottery Barn duvet cover set.

{I didn't buy the quilt. But, as I mentioned in my last post I've been saving up my photo session money for a few little home décor splurges. A little voice in my head is telling me to go for it!}

So, with the intention of hopefully getting the blue and white striped quilt, I picked up an inexpensive, white, textured duvet cover set from Ikea for $49.99.

$49.99!!!!!!!!!!

Ofelia Vass Duvet Cover Set - Ikea

I am super pumped that I actually sort of finally made a decision and that soon we may finally have bed linens that actually fit the bed!

;)

It's a good day.

P.S. We went to Ikea and our truck was jam-packed. Tetris-style. Obviously I'll share more about what else we got a little later.

P.S.S. I didn't put the new Ikea duvet cover on the bed yet because that would require me having to make the bed. I made dinner tonight. You didn't think that I could make the bed and cook dinner in the same day did you?

P.S.S.S. Is $270 for a king-sized quilt outrageous or reasonable? I dunno. All I know is that it has stripes and I want it. Bad.

P.S.S.S.S. Alex went to the movies without me (boy movie with a friend) so I decided to eat ten chocolate chip cookies whilst adding fabric swatches to my cart on fabric.com. Good times!

P.S.S.S.S.S. When I say ten chocolate chip cookies, I really mean six.