Where do you put your bed throw pillows at night?

missystu

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

Any ideas as to where to store those extra throw pillows at night when you go to bed?

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MtnRdRedux

9 years ago

In order to keep the bed looking its best, we just keep it as is and use an air mattress on the floor. We simply deflate it in the morning.

One thing I did was I went to only washable pillow shams; no dryclean only stuff on the bed. And only usable pillows; ie standard size or big eurosquares, I like to sleep with only one pillow, a tempurpedic. So my extras go on a chair or a settee that was at the foot of my bed until DD stole it for her room. DH sleeps with multiple pillows.

Lastly, I think too many pillows is very 80s. I personally like to see pillow restraint.

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gr8daygw
9 years ago
This picture is great! This is exactly what I want, a nice, simple clean look. I have tried and tried to explain to decorators and they don't get it. ... If those ottomans at the end of the bed opened you could put the pillows in there. My second place is on the chair and third just toss them on the floor, lol. That carpet looks clean enough to do that.
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mustangs81
9 years ago
I was fortunate to find an upholstered half moon deep storage bench. I don't have room at the foot of the bed but it works well against the wall.
Love that picture that you shared.
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Debbie Downer
9 years ago
Throw the pillows and wherever they land is it. (OK sorry, for some reason the concept of "throw" pillows seems funny to me this a.m. They are supposed to seem "thrown" or casually placed.... and yet the placement is often anything but!)
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dedtired
9 years ago
On the floor. I only have two Euro squares. Toss on the floor at night , then toss on the bed in the morning. Horrors, I know.
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cat_mom
9 years ago
We use one decorative pillow on our bed (the rest are sleep pillows), and it goes on the bench in our bedroom at night.
dexx215
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MtnRdRedux. ... I can't stop laughing about the inflatable air mattress!
bpath
9 years ago
Mtn, I hear ya. One summer when I was a teen, I made my bed up so beautifully with new sheets, perfect corners, I couldn't bear to mess it up. I slept all summer on a sleeping bag on the floor next to it...cozy nest :)

Throw pillows: depends on who gets there first. DH frisbees them into the corner. I use them for reading (3 little-ish ones) so I tuck them between bed and nightstand at lights out.
Fun2BHere
9 years ago
Mine are placed on a bedside chair at night, then back on the bed in the morning when I make the bed.
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9 years ago
I have a wicker chest between 2 windows that houses our sleep pillows during the day. At night I switch them out with a toss pillow & the two I keep in decorative shams on the bed during the day.
User
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Two queen and two euro shams go on the floor beside the night stand. In the morning, the 2 sleep pillows go in the closet.
Bunny
9 years ago
Simple. I don't have any. Just two sleeping pillows which stay put.
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
9 years ago
Like Linelle, we don't have any. Four sleeping pillows though.
javiwa
9 years ago
LOL, mtnrdredux - you did that with such a straight face....had me going.
beth09
9 years ago
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Put me in the "only under my head" camp. ;)

And mtn, that was excellent. lol
User
9 years ago
Are lots and lots of throw pillows, carefully coordinated and strategically placed by size, form and function still a "thing"?

I've winnowed down to matching shams and maybe one useless pillow ;-)
User
9 years ago
I very much love all my throw pillows. They go on a small chair and the floor.

Where do you put your bed throw pillows at night?

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