I have a bench in the bedroom for the pillows.

When I am not home, one of my dogs sits on it- I've only seen him do it once, but I find hairs on it all the time and the throw pillow that's on it flattened.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bench ideas

We have a large chair in our bedroom. I stack the pillows on that at night and put them back on the bed in the morning. You might want to consider an extra large basket. You could put the smaller pillows in the basket and stack the larger ones on top.

I have only three and I put them on the dresser when we go to bed.

We have a long bench that opens up for storage. I just plop them along with extra bedding in there and shut the lid.

We have a chair where we put them.

That said, I have cut back on pillows and decreed that I will no longer have any that you cannot actually use (i used to have dryclean only ones on the bed). I am actually thinking that the pillow thing has been overdone to the point of comedy.

You may want to try paring back, the guys are right on this one IMHO

I have two Euro squares and I toss them on the floor. I don't have pets. I toss them back on the bed in the morning. There's no way I'd move all those pillows back and forth every day. They look pretty, but I am too practical.

I used to just throw them on the floor, but we have a chair in the bedroom now, so I only throw them on the floor about half the time now.

I have three euro shams, two king shams, and one small monogrammed decorative pillow. They're stacked neatly up against the wall when we go to sleep. The euros are in one stack, and the kings and the small pillow are in another. My floors are clean!

We have six pillows that come off. There's a small chair in the corner of the room that two go on top, two underneath, and the two euros are stacked near the chair. I don't feel they're getting dirty being off the bed.

Have 3 decorative pillows that get placed on top of the wicker hamper at night.

Try a volleyball hammock.

Wow, all of this seems like a lot of effort. I'm a basic-bedding kinda gal. We have two regular size bed pillows and 2 king size pillows on our queen size bed, plus one boudoir size pillow. We sleep on both the standard and king size pillow (usually I end up putting one over my head if DH is still reading (or snoring) when I'm ready to sleep!). The small pillow gets tossed on the floor. I have a weird aversion to bed-making so I want it to be as simple as possible. I'm in too big of a hurry to get to my coffee in the morning.

Phew! I'm glad I'm not the only one who puts them on the floor. Our floors are clean, I guess it's because we have 3 dogs and a cat that I'm paranoid about it. I like the idea of a bench or a chair, thanks!
marcolo lol - I did consider one of those nets attached to the bottom of hoop in the arcade basketball game. Maybe DH wouldn't think they were stupid if he could make a game out of it... ;)

I love the look of a rug underneath a bed, but unfortunately, with my sleigh bed I can't use one because I can't get a sweeper under the bed (the dust would destroy me). Barely can get a swiffer under there to grab the dust bunnies. For a bit of accent, I have a "throw-rug" at the end of my bed and I toss my two king-size shammed pillows plus one decorative pillow on the rug at bedtime. I am not kidding myself that the rug does not get dusty, but it is "contained" in the nap of the rug, thus not getting on the pillows.

I am training myself to simplify life in many areas and eliminating lots of pillows helps :). Same with sofa pillows - two on the sofa and two on the loveseat. I find that some people will actually place the pillows behind their back for comfort if sitting in the corners of the sofas. My son picks them up, looks at them rather quizzicly, like what do I do with these, then puts them on the floor at the end of the sofa.

I'm with Mtn on this one. Par back. I have two decorative Euro's, but I actually use them to read in bed. Then I lean them against the nightstand (cedar chest) when I'm ready to sleep.

I look at it this way, our bedroom is in the back of the house and no one sees it except us. But I also like the look of simplicity of a made-up bed sans all the throw pillows.

I am with SueB. I used to have pillow clutter and it got old (and a chore) to make the bed, unmake the bed, toss them on the chair. I am a minimalist when it comes to bedding. In fact, I had a lovely toile fitted bedspread custom made last year. It was extremely heavy and cumbersome to make the bed (a King), so just last week, the seamstress picked it up and is giving it a "trim," so it will be more like a comforter, but not reversible.

I guess I was not of any help in answering your question, but all the suggestions are great - large basket, chair....

Removing the deco pillows at night is part of my evening routine, and it takes
under 2 minutes ; they go on top of chairs and dressers, then I'm off to brush my teeth and wash my face, lol.... I'm down to 5 decos now, for me that's minimalism.

We each have a chair on either side of the bed
and put the pillows there at night...I love pillows.
Pillow Ma :)

While they do look pretty, I have a feeling that the relatively recent trend of putting multiple decorative pillows on beds has been pushed by decorators and catalog stores to sell more merchandise. I have little enough extra time to spend on the things I love doing, so I'm not keen on making another chore for myself, even if it only takes a few minutes. I have four king size pillows on my bed, and they're all used for sleeping. If I'm expecting someone outside the family upstairs, I pull the coverlet or comforter up and over the pillows to hide the rumpled pillowcases. Sometimes less IS more.

I also use my euro square behind my sleeping pillow to prop myself up when reading in bed. When I'm ready to doze off, I take the euro and give it a frisbee toss onto the floor. So -- I guess I do make a sport of it!

I have an upholstered chair in the room that belongs to the cat during the day and to the pillows at night.

Reminds me of Ed Begley Jr who referred to bed pillows as a govt make work project...put the on, take them off, out them on, take them off!

I'm down to 2 small beaded one's (totally inappropriate for a king bed) and they go on the floor at night.

No, let me rephrase that: They get thrown on the floor and often trampled upon.

The king size shams get put beside the bedside tables and fit there perfectly between the tables and the walls. The one small decorative pillow I use in addition goes on a bench which already has several small pillows on it as decoration (the bench is against a wall). In the winter I have a different bed set but also two king size shams and three small throw pillows. Those go on top of the shams and are out of the way.

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Too many pillows look over the top for me plus I'm not keen on a bedroom looking similar to most of the others out there. I like individuality.

I didn't realise the thread was started 4 years ago. Yet these pillows are still being piled on beds!

Well, even if revived by a spammer, it's still a useful topic. I find I'm incapable of making that "multiple designer pillows" look work. I've tried, but just can't pull it off.

But we have multiple pillows because we actually use them. We read in bed and/or watch TV together, almost every night, in our MBR.

When we decided to redo the MBR, one of the most expensive things we put in was a built-in storage headboard between the custom bookcases. After 25 yrs of stacking pillows on a bench I was tired of it. I wanted a slanted front where we could stack pillows 3-deep in comfort!

This is the headboard unit right after it was installed (I replaced the crappy window blinds with a beautiful plantation shutter unit that I'm soooo happy with). It is sized for a CA King bed:

The two storage compartments are identical, just reversed. The wider compartment fits a king-size pillow perfectly. Each will hold 2 fat pillows plus 1 smaller bedroll pillow. The smaller compartment is a great little cubbyhole for keeping little-used stuff accessible but out of sight:

I have enough problems with clutter. Extra throw pillows, not used, for me will be thrown into the trash. Sorry. And,yes, the used kitty litter will go atop, to make certain.

I've cut back - 2 queen size pillows on each side with a boudoir pillow in between up against the hard wood headboard (for Godfrey, my Cavalier), one more boudoir pillow is keep with. During the say, two Euro shams in front if f the pillows and one small antique linen in the middle. Euros and antique pillow go on bench at the got of the bed at night. I've always had some sort of bench at the foot of my bed.

I dislike throw pillows. I have allergies and a smallish bedroom and a messy husband who will never make the bed properly (if at all) anyway so why bother? I've decided to embrace a minimalist aesthetic so we just have two king sized cover pillows to go over our actual sleeping pillows that match our duvet (which is white).

Let's start a new theme and have NO pillows. They are not needed and too fussy.

I ended up with tennis elbow a few years back and finally found a use for the small pillows on the bed. I had 3 that I got just because I liked the colors but I was constantly wondering why I had these things I had to move every night. Then I couldn't sleep due to the throbbing arm and my friend told me to prop the arm up and lo and behold it worked. So now the euros get moved but little pillows stay on the bed to prop up various injured parts lol. When we move into the new place I will redo the bedroom and will scale down by eliminating the 3 euros.