Get Maximum Coziness in a Minimalist Bed

Rough Linen Minimalist! A decent bed with a thinnish mattress, best goose down duvet and pillow (with cheaper, firmer pillows for sitting up and reading) and my secret ingredient: a bolster to fill the angle between bedhead and mattress. And of course pure natural linens, real linen woven from flax.

olldbobbi I'd like to be a minimalist, but my stuff keeps getting in the way. I feel the same way about excess pillows and bolsters on the bed as I do about throw pillows on the sofas. Yes, they're pretty, and decorative, and interesting. But they're always in my way! On my bed I have two functional pillows, and one decorative pillow and I am a happy camper. Maybe one day I'll make it to minimalism!

midmodfan Minimalist here, too! But it's easy when you learned at home that less is more and quality is the best 'decoration'.

My bed resembles picture #1. I have a thin Eider down comforter and the best linen duvet covers available. I change the covers often, starch and neatly press them. Although I hate doing it, I love the crisp, high-end look.

JAN MOYER The simpler you make the linens.... the more the neatness counts. So I would buy a ton of pillowcases and change them daily. I would also consider never falling into bed with your make up on. Every bit of your bedding needs to remain spotless, all week until the next change! No sweaty, mascara stained/tear stained pillows..... they have no place to hide without those nice big euro shams!

Your New Home LLC Tricia Rose Rough Linen has it exactly right! A couple of other details: I hate legs that I can stub my toes on. A platform with 12 inches of toe room is perfect. And I prefer that the bed be anchored to the floor so it can't slip away from the wall. A custom-designed platform that meets both those needs is easy to build and if you increase the toe space to 18 inches the bed will appear to float above the floor.

Your New Home LLC $750 bed linens are the best bad habit I ever acquired!

Rough Linen Your New Home LLC, you are right, toe-stubbing can be designed out, and so can shin-whacking: if I had a protruding platform I'd have permanent bruises.

I had forgotten about the virtually useless 'box spring'! Sprung slats first appeared in high end European beds and now even Ikea have them, and they can give that sleek slimmer look which makes thick mattresses and thick box springs look incredibly clunky by comparison. I think manufacturers got carried away thinking more is more.

beachwalker520 I am a minimalist indoors and out. After loosing a lot of our home furnishings to tornado damage we learned that we only needed the basics and a limited number of decorative pieces. Moving into a different smaller home 3 years ago, we kept it all simple, in and out. It's so much easier to keep maintained too. People can't got over how spacious the interior of our home feels because we have kept furnishings and accessories to a minimum - with much of it serving dual purposes. Our little garden has received so many compliments because it always looks clean and well kept.When I look at cluttered gardens I pretty much can tell, the inside will be just as filled with "stuff".

Rough Linen Jan Moyer, my life needs more plot !(sweat, mascara and tears) At best I get a little chocolate...

huxinator Any recommendations on linen linen brands?

tclapper2 I like puffy, over stuffed stuff in my house, but in my bedroom, I want it clean and straight. It began when I bought one of those foam beds. It was too hard to get in and out with all the bed linens, so I put lovely set of white sheets on the bed, two pillows, and a white quilt. It's nice that the only thing that moves is the quilt and the pillow. I sleep on top of the sheets, and I make the bed by straightening the quilt and throwing the pillow on the bed. That's my idea of minimal.

JAN MOYER I own the "un-minimal" bed, and I am not giving it up. It's a nest of coziness, with the best crispy smooth white sheets in a room whose temperature is similar to a meat locker even when it is ninety outdoors. To each their own, but if I need a "hotel" i will make a reservation. The very best of them leave me thrilled to climb into my own four poster perch on return home. Give me a wicked snowstorm on a Friday night, a mug of cocoa, a tv remote, a brand new shelter magazine, the glow of the lamp nearby. It doesn't get any better, girls. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

JAN MOYER Tricia Rose.... I already did the sweat/tears/mascara and "plot" thing. Highly over rated. LOL. Highly. Now I am high bed, low drama.

trasgorshek I always think of "Along Came Polly"s pillow scene. Every time my husband climbs in bed I envision him wanting to take a knife to our excess pillows but I love them, can't help it.

We have white linens with cream duvet and I'm extremely anal about how it's made, it's just one of my many quarks . I had to laugh when reading these posts though because just last night I got chocolate on the flat sheet and while reading tonight I got brownie crumbs everywhere. And yes there are probably a few mascara marks too. So, I guess I just figured out why I love my pillows so much.

ana474 Sadly all of these beds look very uninviting to me. I like the 10 pillows on the bed, the beautiful custom duvet, 3 blankets layered look. I admit I hate taking half of it off to go to bed and hate making the bed up, but it sure looks nice before I turn in for the night. I get to look at the beautiful bed all day when I walk in the room. I think if you are minimalist in your entire house, go for it in your room, but if you are frilly in the house and minimalist in the bedroom it just looks 'off'.

duffis4fun I'm a bit of both. Not wanting to give up the warmth but needing to keep a bit of the "Modernist" for my husband.

Karen Heffernan I love the way the beds look in many boutique and high-end hotels. Crisp white linens, white/cream duvet with a coverlet folded across the foot of the bed. Simple, clean, and inviting. You just want to jump right in.

Multiple pillows are too much clutter and not at all restful. Where do you put them when you take them off? Way too much work. At the end of the day, when I go to bed, I want to go to bed, not disassemble it first.