Do or Don’t: Two Duvets on One Bed

My husband and I use two different blankets. I have my weighted blanket (which he does NOT like to use… I feel like you either love them or you hate them), and he uses a regular blanket. No complaints!

My husband usually would go to bed before me; and by the time I went to bed, he had taken over the king size duvet. I would get into bed and start tugging until I would eventually wake him up and so that I could have some of the duvet. My husband used to travel to Germany on business, and he had mentioned that the hotel beds had two smaller duvets on each bed rather than one large one. I did some research online and found that Scandinavian countries, as well as some European countries used two duvets on one bed. I also went online and looked and some images and to see how to make a bed nicely with two duvets. We know have two twin duvets on our king size bed; problems solved and it’s the best sleep ever!

It is the best thing ever!!!

I live in Germany and love the „two duvets in one bed“ sleeping. Its the best, you can tuck yourself in your own duvet, no more fighting over the duvet when Himself rolls over and takes the rest of the duvet with him, leaving me without one (or I take every inch of the big duvet for me), it helps tucking in my cold feet while Himself loves his feet outside for the first hour.
Try it, Cup of joe friends, you will be happy happy forever. And if you are afraid it will seperate you from your partner: snuggeling under a small duvet is even better than under a big one. Trust me. You‘ll love it! ❤️

I’ve just stumbled upon this… MY eyes popped when I read that twin duvets are something new and that a king size duvet (ONE for TWO people??) is common in the US. I would go crazy sharing a duvet with my partner. How does one tuck allll the corners of the duvet cozily around oneself if sharing? In my opinion “sharing is caring” is out the window when it comes to duvets. OK, I share it with our kids, but as soon as they start tossing and turning it’s unbearable and they’re out (and covered with their own single duvet).
This blows my mind!

I’ve been living in Switzerland for many years (I’m Australian though). When my Swiss husband and I got married, I insisted on having one duvet even though most of our friends here have two. I thought that was so weird back then. Sometimes it’s nice to sleep in a two duvet bed but after 27 years, we still have just one. I think I’d be lost without our ongoing (and mostly loving) tug of “duvet” war.

When we stayed with family in Switzerland, I thought it seemed incredibly unromantic and then I LOVED it!! Making the bed / the aesthetic might irk me, me though, if I pulled the trigger.

We are twin duvet converts and we will never go back. We love having our “own space” on each side of the bed. No tugging, no pulling, completely customizable to warmth and weight. Ahhh. It’s ideal. Especially now with my pregnancy pillow thrown into the mix!

Yes!! We went down this same rabbit hole a year ago and absolutely LOVE our twin duvets!! I stumbled upon the concept the same way you did and never looked back. In fact, at least once a week we comment on how incredibly awesome having separate duvets has been. Not only do we not play tug of war with each other during the night, it solved the issue of our two 50lbs pups hoarding the blankets as well!!

Added bonus, twin sized bedding is often available at deeply discounted end of season sales. The biggest challenge we’ve faced is adjusting to how the “made up” bed looks with two folded duvets instead of one sleek duvet/comforter, but we got over that very quickly.

Seriously, give it a try. You won’t regret it!!

My husband and I just returned from a trip to Iceland and Norway and discovered this amazing idea! We are on our way for new bedding right now! Best idea ever!

I read this post and the original a few weeks ago. Talked it over with my husband and I’m purchasing two twin comforters for our king TEMPUR-PEDIC bed this weekend. More to come…

We’ve been traveling in Europe (and are in Amsterdam right now with two duvets). I think we are going to give it a try!

Two twin duvets should be perfect on a king bed. Happy sleeping!

2 duvets is wonderful… no tugging, twisting, wrangling covers… not to mention it’s so much easier replacing the covers on two small ones that wrestling with one huge king sized behemoth…

It’s great! Within the first week of being married I realized that sharing covers was NOT going to work…hubby is a bit of a restless sleeper and I’m somewhat of a light sleeper so whenever he would move it would shift the covers and that would wake me up. We have a king size bed so there was no issue with bumping into each other but the cover situation was not allowing me to even relax. We experimented using just regular individual blankets first and found that to be a huge improvement so got individual duvets and it has worked quite well. Neither of us is a cuddler anyway and it makes for much better sleep. Highly recommended, even if it looks a bit messier.

Have been married to my Norwegian husband for 8 years. He always advocated the 2 duvet system but I resisted because of aesthetics…of all things. We have subsequently moved and he bought 2 inners and 2 duvets so I had no choice. Oh the difference!!! He is no longer like the heat seeking missile he was when we had just the one. I am SOLD!

My husband and I have down duvets purchased in Hungary. The upside is that there is not a lot of extra bulk from a North American twin duvet between us on our queen bed as these are narrower. The downside is that I need to custom make the covers. Wait – that’s fun too! Ordering from England might be easiest.

My hubby and I have been sleeping like this for many years. I had no idea it was the norm in Scandinavia. It just makes sense to me. Who wants to wake up every your partner rolls over and pulls on the blanket?

Yes, two duvets are wonderful, for all the reasons listed in the comments. However, the photos you posted have the beds made incorrectly. In Europe, where two duvets are standard, you sleep with the duvets the way they are pictured in your photo. But when you make the bed, simply turn each duvet sideways and fold in half (or even thirds). That way, they don’t hang off the bed all messy.

Yep, my partner and I sleep like this. King sized bed, two double duvets. I am like a furnace and like to snuggle in, which sets him on fire and he prefers to be cool so always lets wafts of cold air in under the covers which would then wake me up. Not good. Anyway, now we sleep with two duvets bed time is a dream :)

My husband and I have been married for 37 years and we’re just about to start sleeping with two duvets on our king bed. He’s always cold and I’m always warm. We’ll get two twin size duvets – I’ll have one intended for the summer months and he’ll have a fluffy down duvet. We’ll both be happy sleepers!

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Finally got around to doing this this week. Life changing. Highly recommend 2 of the Ikea single bed quilts because they are larger than standard singles.

I know this post is late…but I purchased two twin size quilts for our king bed….put them on a few nights ago and for the first time in years, slept all night. There was no pulling or tugging on the blankets. My winter duvets will also be double! Each twin came with a euro sham so the bedding still looks very elegant.

Yes, yes, yes! We traveled in Iceland last year and all the hotels had double or queen beds with two personal sized covers, no top sheet. It was perfect, allowing each person to adjust for their sleep style and no fighting for covers during the night. But where can a US person find these covers? They’re not sold in any stores or online sites that I’ve seen, just twin sized, which is far too wide.