I put mine on a chair next to the bed. I only have two of them. If you have a dozen this may not work.

Year ago, living in another place, I had a coffee table at the foot of the bed that matched the end tables at the sides of the bed. I put them on the table. I had lots.

Just toss on the floor here!

I use an upholstered & skirted half moon bench that opens for storage.

In the MB, 2 chairs and a setee hold 9 pillows overnight. For another bedroom, they get piled up in the guest BR, LOL!

We have a bench at the end of the bed that we used to put our extra "bedding" on, or it was the wing back chair in the corner. Sometimes, I don't feel like making the bed up with all the decorative pillows, so they would stay on this bench or chair, looking unsightly.

For weeks, I had been on the look out for a large floor basket that would blend into my bedroom furnishings and finally found one at Ross's for very little money. It's perfect for all those small decorative pillows, but the sham pillows still go on the bench every night. The basket is made of dark wood rattan and is about 2' wide, by 24" tall, with an open weave design. Sort of Tommy Bahama..ish

Thanks a lot for your replies. I have may be 2/3 regular sized pillows and 1 body pillow.

Hellokitty, :-) I was smiling while reading your post because I used to think I'm the only slob who tosses things on the floor -- nice to know I'm not alone!

Seems like bench at the foot-end is the preferred option. But I wonder, do you ever end up kicking those thingies near the feet at night ever? :-)

The above measurements were suppose to say 20" wide x 24" tall. However, I just measured and the basket is actually a little wider in the middle and only 17" tall. Thought it was taller, but it does hold two roll pillows, a large square pillow and a smaller rectangular pillow.

The pillows are placed leaning up (and sitting on the floor) in the corner so we don't trip over them in the dark!

We just have two pillows-with-matching-shams on the bed at this time -- thanks to complaining by the DH -- who threatens to duck-tape any pillows together so he can lift them off the bed at one time! LOL! :)

Jan

I have two eurpoean size pillows and two standard and I store them on top of my quilt rack.

I sleep with all mine! Seriously, I have started to sleep with three pillows. DH often tosses his one extra pillow onto the floor after he is done reading.

We have two shams, two sleeping pillows and one pillow "for show." We just stick the shams behind the sleeping pillows when we go to bed. I toss the "show" pillow on the floor. Sometimes, I pull the sham out from under my sleeping pillow and put it over my head when DH snores.

Another floor tosser here!

Some get piled on a chair and the rest just get thrown to the floor. I figure the carpet is clean 'enough' :) and the pillows go back on the bed in the morning. I do have to confess there have been a couple of mornings when I woke up to our large dog sleeping soundly on the pillows that were on the floor..I guess she thought they belonged to her, LOL.

This question is good timing because I've just recently thought about adding this bench to my MB to put the extra pillows at night and putting a small cabinet in its place in our entry.

Here is a link that might be useful: Always Nesting

Nope we do not kick the pillows of the table at the end of the bed. Not sure why other than I am short and do not get close to the end of the bed with my feet. Hubby it tall and feet stick out and some how the pillows stay put. Honestly I preferred the trunk and when I did not bother to put the pillows back up on the bed they looked like they belonged on the trunk as trunk pillows and I used to sit on the trunk all the time. Now it is a window seat trunk. So I still get to sit on it and so do the kitties.

I would love to see that half moon skirted bench. I bet it is gorgeous.

Chris

I have a couple that go on the fainting couch at night and a couple we throw in a wing chair...and a couple that end up on the floor :) We have pets and a small child so it's probably not as clean as yours is ;) But the pillows don't complain.

Either piled on top of the wingback chair or if I had pets I'd put them in the armoire, located in front of the bed. :0)
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I've just solved this problem. I found a Savafieh leather storage bench on Overstock that I've just put at the foot of the bed. I actually bought two - one smaller one in caramel leather for the sunroom (from SmartBargains; link below), and a larger one in off-white for the foot of the bed. They are absolutely beautiful, and they are very well wrapped for shipping.

Overstock does not identify the manufacturer, but you can find them by searching under "Manhattan." This is the one I bought (note that they reversed the photos for the large and small sizes):

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Manhattan-Large-Off-white-Storage-Bench/4107244/product.html

I got both of them for less by using 20% off coupons, free shipping, etc.

Here is a link that might be useful: Savafieh Manhattan Storage Bench

Well, you know, no one sees the pillows on the floor but us! They go right back on the bed in the am, so I figure, why make something so simple, more complicated?? Carpet is clean, pillows have shams that wash. What more could I want?? he he!!

I have no qualms with the floor, either. :) I have an old church bench in the bedroom and they go there.

I grew weary of the pillows on-off routine. Now my extra pillows reside on an ottoman and only find their way back to the bed if I feel it needs to be "fancy" (not a daily requirement in my home) or if for some reason I actually need extra pillows. Otherwise, the only pillows that get to stay on the bed are those we use nightly.

I'm with learn_as_I_go: the only pillows on my bed are those that I actually sleep with. Staging my bed with pillows I don't ever intend to use would be like stocking the refirgerator with plastic food just to, you know, look nice. It does not compute. Then again, I can't really remember the last time I actually made the bed. Probably for this photo--a year and a half ago.

We use the two extra pillows on the bed to prop up and read with then set them on the table when we go to sleep.

Love the looks of your room magnaverde.

Chris

All the extra pillows with shams currently reside in one of our guest room closets. I might get "fancy" for Christmas and actually use them for a day or two! If I do I'll put them on the wing-back chairs in our bedroom at night. In the past I've used a bench instead of the chairs where pillows could reside. I won't put them on the floor even tho the floor is clean.

We no longer routinely have extra pillows on our bed - only when we're having company who might see our room. Just too much extra work and my DH thinks it's insane and he's probably right! Altho I do other decorating things he thinks are insane. ;-)

Love your room Magnaverde but hmn..where's the bed? :-)

floor here, and I am sure there is lab hair on the shams, but ...oh well

[Bellaflora, that's my bed under the window. It's a walnut Empire-style daybed with scrolled ends from about 1830, and it's only 24 inches wide, but I've been sleeping on it since 1977. I was just out of college & just starting my first job when I spotted it at an antique show, and the $240 it cost me seemed like a fortune. I had to eat macaroni-&-cheese for weeks to repair the damage to my bank account, but, hey, it was worth it. The brand-new furniture that my pals were buying during the same period all went to Goodwill--or a landfill--a long time ago, but I figure my bed has at least another 50 years left to go.

Anyway, the writer who came to my apartment to interview me for the O at Home article had the same question you did--"Where's your bed?" When I told her I was sitting on it, she paused, glanced at her hands, and then said, "Well, it's a really nice piece. But...what do you do... how do...what if you sometimes want to...um...have...a guest?"

I just laughed & told her "I don't have those kind of guests."]

The best solution for storing the pillows is the SecretSill! Check it out at www.SecretSill.com. Yes it is a new product but you will be more than pleasantly surprised by the quality. Very-well Made in the USA and we're proud of it!

Here is a link that might be useful: SecretSill - Space when you need it, beauty all the time.

I wonder if this has been solved, I still am looking for a better solution. Regardless, I have a nightstand with a very large basket insert. I tend to throw all my extra throws, blankets and pillows in it. Still, I don't like big bedside tables.

I also only have two pillows on a bed per person. One pillow to sleep on, and two to sit up. Invest in some good pillows, not the ugly flat ones and you won't need half a dozen useless pillows that can't ever be washed (yech).

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