By eHow Home & Garden Editor
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What's the matter? Didn't your parents teach you how to make your own bed when you were a kid? Fear not, eHow will help you out with the instructions. These steps are for the traditional blanket and bedspread. If you use a comforter or thick quilt, you can simply place it on top of the sheets without tucking it in. Pillows go on top.
Put the bottom sheet on the mattress. If it is a fitted sheet, it will have sewn-in corners and you can fit it snugly over the mattress. If it's a flat sheet, follow step 2 to make hospital corners.
Lay the top sheet on the mattress so there's enough to tuck under the mattress on all four sides. Tuck the sheet snugly under the mattress at the foot of the bed and the head of the bed. Tuck the corners under the mattress on the long sides, making sure that the folds are flat. Tuck in the sides, pulling the sheet taut.
Fold the top sheet back over the blankets at the head of the bed, pulling the sheet back about half a foot, and tuck under the side flaps.
If you have a bedspread or thin quilt, fold the top of the spread down, lay the pillows on top, then fold the spread back over them, leaving part of the spread tucked under the pillows.
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Comments
SunshineMDJ said
on 1/21/2008 How do you know which way the king size fitted sheet goes when one side is a little longer than the other? As I recall, the manufacturer's tag inside one of the sewn corners has something to do with it -- as in it goes on one particular corner. Any ideas?
Stevehoward said
on 1/24/2007 Thanks for your help. I will use this in an in-service traing section for my staff
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Here's an idea if you like your bed and boxspring on the floor: Cover the boxspring with a mattress pad and a solid-color, dark sheet - then you needn't worry about the duvet not covering the boxspring.