Pillow Recommendation

6 years ago

So I'm trying to pick out a pillow to purchase for a sham. I think I want a firm standard, but I'm a bit lost with all the styles, brands, materials, etc.

It's a twin bed with a tall headboard that has leather padding.

I have a flanged standard sham, but it was seeming slouchy and not quite working; this may have been partially due to a dying pillow in it. I also have a non-flanged euro-sized sham, but euro seems like it might be too tall, since I don't really want to hide the headboard; I can fold the euro sham down to look like a flangeless standard sham. I do lean on the pillow a fair bit, so it needs to not Get squashed or flat, but I don't want a rock either.

Anyone have a strong preference for a certain pillow? Or a certain amount of fill or type of fill material they particularly like for shams?

Here's the bed:

The purple pillow is my regular bed pillow ... both aforementioned shams are the same ivory color. Notice how slumpy the sham looks. I'm not really looking to get more shams, and I do have accent pillows I can toss on when I feel like it (especially when using my ivory pillowcase on the bed pillow). I'm really just looking for a new pillow insert for one of the two ivory shams. That being said, I am always open to suggestions.

Thanks,

BlueberryBundtcake

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Anne Duke
6 years ago
Just get an inexpensive firm, fiberfill standard pillow, paying attention to dimensions. Get the largest available, maybe even go to a queen size.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
6 years ago
Wow that shiny wall would give me nightmares but as for fill get foam in a firmness you find comfortable, fiber fill gets flat very quickly I find.
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BlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA
Original Author
6 years ago
The flash makes it seem shinier than it is. It is semigloss, but it doesn't glare in Normal lighting.

I looked at the queen sized ... but it seems like standard, queen, and king only differ in length. I know with a square pillow, it's common practice to go up a size (i.e. stuff a 20" pillow in an 18" case), does that work with single dimension upsizing, too? The two sham options would be standard 20"x26" (shown) and 26"x26", which I would fold he bottom under on to make shorter. Would 20"x30" just make the sham fuller, or might it cause buckling, since it's only oversized in one dimension?
BlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA
Original Author
6 years ago
Here's the two shams:

Flanged 20"x26", old pillow (feather and polyester fill) fluffed to within an inch of its life:

(This pillow started sagging shortly after and has no spring back when squished, so no question that it needs to be replaced; I'd like the sham to look nice for more than immediately after fluffing.)

Non-flanged 26"x26" (folded under), pillow (Tommy Bahama polyester fill) borrowed from other bedroom:

(This pillow is a little too soft, but it has to go back to the other bed anyways ...)
Sammy
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
A Euro-sized pillow is going to be much better suited for propping yourself up in bed. As far as the filling is concerned, a super-plump, overstuffed feather/down insert will be the most comfortable. Just make sure the insert has a poke-free covering on it and, more importantly, that you purchase responsibly sourced feather/down!! Some places to look are Cuddledown and The Company Store.

And yes, ideally, you want to buy an insert that’s at least two inches larger on all sides than the cover into which it’s going. But if you can’t do that, you can try another way to get the plumpness you need by using two inserts in the sham.