Buying Bedding Ensembles: Don’t Forget to Measure Your Bed!
There are a few measurements you should take before you go off to the bedding superstore to look at bedding ensembles or decide to order online. Be sure to measure your bed especially the width and length of the mattress unless you have a standard size single (twin), double, queen or king bed.
Even if you do think you have a standard size, it does no harm to check!
The standard sizes are as follows
Twin 39″ x 75″
Double 54″ x 75″
Queen 60″ x 80″
King 78″ x 80″
There’s even a standard size California King (72″ x 84″) if you have a very large bed.
In any case whether you have a standard sized bed or not, you need to measure your bed when choosing a bedding ensemble with fitted sheets. Measure the depth of the mattress from the top edge to the base and include any additional bedding which will be included under your sheets such as mattress topper, electric blanket, mattress cover etc.
Measure Your Bed!
This measurement needs to match the pocket depth of the sheet as closely as possible to ensure correct fitting of the elasticated anchor bands at the corners. If the sheets don’t fit your mattress properly they will rumple and give you a disturbed night’s rest.
It’s better to use a flat sheet with enough extra width and depth to be properly tucked in under the mattress than a fitted sheet where you struggle to fit it over the corners at bed making time or which is too big and won’t stay in place on the mattress.
While ensembles with a comforter included will come in standard sizes, for a bedding set with a duvet cover, measure the length and width of the duvet itself rather than the size of the bed as duvet covers are made to fit particular sizes of duvet.
For a bed skirt measure around the base and the height of the bed from the bottom of the mattress (top of the base) to the floor.
Some sheets have an attached bed skirt and then you need both measurements – the depth of the mattress and the distance from the mattress base to the floor.
With all these variables you’d think it would be difficult to finding bedding ensembles to suit your bed but most bedding sets are in standard sizes so if you have a fairly typical bed you should have plenty of ensembles to choose from – both budget and luxury. It’s just a case of checking that you have measurements which conform so that you can look at the right size.
In some ways, it makes sense to always choose a standard bed so that you have that choice – an easy accessible range of bedding ensembles in the stores and online.
On the other hand if you have your heart set on (or already have) an unusual bed it can itself form the center of your bedroom design and you could settle for plainer bed linen allowing the bed to speak for itself.
If you have an idea in mind however, custom bedding ensembles are available for those who want something unique and/or have a non-standard size bed. These can turn an ordinary bedroom into something truly beautiful and which matches your taste and your idea of a dream bedroom perfectly.
Interior Design with Bedding Ensembles
Welcome to Bedding Ensembles Central. This site has been created to help you select the very best bedding for your needs especially if you are looking for advice on designing your dream bedroom and don’t want to go wrong.
You see the bed is the focal point in a bedroom – so the bedding you select is key to a beautiful bedroom design. Depending on your choice and the soft furnishings, wall color and flooring you choose alongside it, your bedroom can be the room of your dreams or the stuff that nightmares are made of.
So choosing the way you dress your bed can be a big decision to make and an expensive one to get wrong.
I remember as a girl back in the 60s and 70s bedding came in just a few different forms. You bought your linens as pillowcases, sheets, blankets and usually a bed cover and choice was extremely limited. The beds were nothing to write home about – you didn’t design a bedroom in those days, you just slept in it! Your “design choices” were nothing more than picking out a bedspread color and finding sheets and pillowcases that matched (if you could) Even at that the range of colors was somewhat restricted. I do remember a “nice” nylon orange quilted comforter I once had which would make me shudder now 
These days we are spoiled for choice with so many different items and designs available to us. We can pick from a whole range of accessories as well as comforters and quilts, duvets and throws, pillow shams and cushions, sheets and bed skirts.
pure white bedding ensemble
And what’s more they have taken the hard work out of the task of putting together different bedding elements to make a great looking bed by creating ready-made bedding ensembles and collections that are designed to work as one unit. And they come in all sorts of sizes – twin, queen and king as well as in multiple variations to include comforters or duvet covers depending on your preference.
You’d then think it was easy to choose bedding – and it is easier in a way – but now we have so many bedding ensembles to choose from that this causes a problem in itself. Too much choice!
So here is the information and advice, if you want it, to help you make your selection. We’ll help with sizing as well as style and color choices and as we don’t sell bedding ensembles ourselves we won’t be pushing you to become a customer or to choose one bedding ensemble over another or to go over your budget though you will find some advertising which helps to keep this site free for everyone to use.
I hope this site can be of service to you and you pick just the right bedding set from all the bedding ensembles available to make a bedroom fit for royalty.
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