Well, my comforters aren’t real warm, so I like my down comforter with cover. Not sure which part of that is the duvet! I use a top sheet with it so I wash the cover less often.

Got tired of fussing with duvet covers, so now it's comforters only or better yet, a quilt.

A duvet for sure, with a down insert. You can get a really good down insert, and it stays clean and un-smushed.

I like a duvet but not the one I have right now, it is so heavy. I need to get a lighter one

I use the down filled duvet without a cover. I also use sheets, and a blanket over all. I had a duvet cover but wrestling the duvet back into the cover was a huge nuisance.

Two beds have down comforters with duvet covers. One bed has a comforter with a solid white duvet cover. They ALL work just fine...

Nicole

I still get confused over comforter vs duvet vs duvet cover vs comforter cover. And then, years ago when this all started brcoming a thing in the US, one company catalog had a ”comforter cover” and ”comforter cover filler”. Umm…

We use a washable comforter, no top sheet.

My husband used to sleep under woolen stufffed quilts that his mother made. They were hot!

My mother and father brought from England what they called an eiderdown. It sat on top of the sheets, no over hang and was very fancy. It had a matching flat cover that covered the whole bed. It was made of a shiny material.

A bigger difference with these bedding articles has to be construction. You can have one big rectangle with fill that has to be fluffed since the stuffing will shift over night. Very traditional. You can have tied or buttoned versions with scattered sewn through ties or paired buttons that hold the filling a little more securely. Then there are the ones with sewn squares of various sizes that hold stuffing in place in squares and then there is the boxed squares where you have two sides with the boxed fill separated by baffled walls between squares. That is the warmest. Put any of them in a cover and you have a duvet which is just a fancy sounding name. I have had pretty much all of them over the years. My grannie's family also had feather beds-huge sacks of goose feathers and down that had to be smacked with a special tool to fluff them that you slept on with quilts over the top.

bpath, the duvet is the down-filled 'comforter', the duvet cover is (aha) the washable cover that keeps the duvet clean. I always thought of comforters (as everyone in our family called them) as the often quilted things that were also used in the winter as bedspreads. Comforters could be washed (again, my family and friends used these terms). I love my duvet and cover, but have to put a flat sheet over it bc my ever-shedding lab sleeps on the bed. The sheet is changed almost every day. LOL

We had eiderdowns as kids but they're rare now. I think I composted our last one. Nearly everyone has duvets. Wool blankets are expensive and quite hard to find these days.

A flat sheet, two wool blankets and either a super cheap polyspun blanket or a quilt that I assume has polyfill. Sometimes we pin the blankets together with horse blanket pins, but I don't think we've stabbed them through the quilt.

Our king feather-whatsis feels too heavy with a cotton duvet cover. I'd love to find something lightweight -- parachute material? I don't like that I can't wash this thing.

I have a feather quilt (I guess that's a duvet) inside a washable cover. I don't care if it doesn't stay exactly in the corners - I still get the right weight and warmth from it for me. I rarely actually wash the cover, since I use a flat sheet underneath (between it and my body). It used to get washed more often when I had a dog.

I do not use either, as it is not that cold here. In the winter, our house would stay at 69° with the thermostat turned completely off in the winter, but I turn it up to 72° anyway.

I always use a top sheet, and over that I put a heavy chenille bedspread that weighs 35 pounds that I made myself, and this keeps me plenty warm.

For guests, I give them a comforter, but I used to use sleeping bags, which can double as comforters.

I have considered making duvet covers with light materials, and I do have the fabrics but have never gotten around to it. I might eventually. I also have lighter weight bedspreads that I have made for use in the summer. In L.A. we did not have seasons, but here we definitely do have a hot season, which lasts about 8 months, during which we use the pool a lot.

We use a light ”warm weather“ California weight down comforter ( my name) year round as Ca. nights are generally * coolish. I’ve always washed them, even before having a larger front load. Six tennis balls in the dryer smooth out the wrinkles. I have hassled with the duvet cover. Ugh. Cyn, our Aussie sleeps with us as well. After giving up on the cover, I tried placing a sheet over the comforter, but it didnt stay in place… too thin. So! I resurrected ( see, saving stuff can be a good thing!) the old RL “duvet cover“ and place over the down comforter. It adds little weight, and stays put. Is the end result a photo-ready bed? No, but good ’nuff for my eyes,..and DH,who cares not a whit.

* on too-warm summer nights the down comforter usually can stay and a fan goes on.

Lars -- I think there's a market for that lightweight duvet cover. I have always used a top sheet, but without a cover, the down 'whatsis' still gets soiled at the top. This won't fit in my smaller size washer. I sent it out, but it came back with clumps of feathers within each 18" square. I can try the tennis balls in the dryer trick if I can stuff it in there!