The Armchair Neat Freak Makes The Bed

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March 7, 2012
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When I was a kid, my parents MADE our bed linen. My sister and I had bunks and Mum & Dad made flowery seventies doona covers and pillowcases to match our blue wallpaper.  We were among the first people in Tasmania to get doonas. Our friends all had blankets and would come over just to see the amazing continental quilts and the slip covers they snuggled into. I know you think I am fibbing, but I am not.

I have come a long way since those early doona days. Now that I am one of JustB’s Armchair Neatfreaks.  It’s a pretty big step UP, I can tell you!  Today this Neat Freak (who is not very neat, hence the Armchair status) is in the bedroom once more. This time we are zoning in on the bed. I want you to MAKE YOUR BED nice. Yes. Make it nice. Make it neat if you want to, but most importantly make it cute and comfy.

Here’s today’s Neat Freak dispatch.  Let’s look in the bedroom. Let’s jump on the bed!

The Armchair Neat Freak Makes The Bed
The Armchair Neat Freak Makes The Bed
Green & White Embroidered Quilt by Cassandra Ellis

Green & White Embroidered Quilt by Cassandra Ellis
Anthropologie Lush Landscape Bed Linen
Cath Kidston Stripey Bed Linen
David Shrigley Bed Linen from Third Drawer Down
Designer’s Guild DuJardin Bed Linen
Florally Eden Bed Linen by Linea
Marimekko Yhdessa Bed Linen
 Hexagon Quilt by Mimou
Beautiful Moroccan Embroidered Bed Linen
Orla Kiely Striped Petal Bed Linen


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  • Gillian

    I often feel like some sort of compulsive, but I LOVE my bed made and made well. Sleep may evade me but it is a good feeling climbing in to a made bed. Just don’t ask me which way I put the toilet roll on the holder. That is another argument altogether (-:

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      You are FUNNY! Which bed do you like the best in the collection, I wonder? x

  • Dibba67

    I’m loving the hexagon quilt.  If I had one of those it might actually encourage me to make the bed!  Yes, I confess, I’m one of those people who don’t make the bed as soon as they get out of it :(
    However, given my limited budget, I just might have to make the quilt myself :)

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      I think I will make one too, Dibba67! We can have a bit of a hexy stitchalong!

      • Rach P

        The Mimou catalogue says the quilt takes 8 hours to make!  Yeah, maybe by Superman’s Grandma or someone equally super-powered and crafty. 

        • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

          More like 800 hours!!!!

          • Rach P

            Fully!

            But how good am I – I am doing my own quilt *inspired* by your Best Friend quilt in Make Hey!  I have made the top.  Gold star for me – it is the first sewn thing I have ever done.  

      • Dibba67

         Ohh yes!  Let’s!

    • http://www.facebook.com/becca.crook Becca Crook

      My thinking with not making the bed is that I’m allowing it to air!

  • Rach P

    These are wicked!  I love the hexagon quilt, too, Dibba67 and Pip!  I like that it is oversized for the bed – looks comfy.  I have coveted  the green and white quilt   for some time.

    And I NEVER make my bed of a morning.  I like that lived-in feel (that’s the story I’m sticking to, anyways).

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      I make my bed ONE day out of  TEN. I am naughty! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/becca.crook Becca Crook

    I keep buying the old school stripy sheets that are similar to the Cath Kidston ones.  How many are considered have  a problem?  

    • Rach P

      Ahh – you’re giving me flashbacks!

      I wouldn’t put a number on it until you run out of space to put them :)

  • Dibba67

    I don’t have so much of a problem with sheets, but I can’t stop my damn blankets from multiplying!  I don’t know how it happens – I only buy the cute ones. And the fluffy ones.  Oh, and ones in colours that I don’t already have……

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      I am a blankaholic. We could form a support group?!

  • Elcydohl

    Where can you buy the beautiful beadspread from the main image. It is just gorgeous!

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      Green & White Embroidered Quilt by Cassandra Ellisand
      Anthropologie Lush Landscape Bed Linen 
      xx

      • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

        Click the links in the post to see more about those items! I am not sure if you liked the green and white striped one… or the flowery gardeny one! They are BOTH lovely!

  • reannonhope

    Pip, how much do you love your job? Just spending the day looking at beautiful things to share with us…Do you find it hard to stop yourself from buying all the cool stuff you post for us to look at?

    I really want the floral bed linen. Like REALLY!!!

  • http://www.cassandraellis.co.uk/ Cassandra

    Hi Pip
    Thanks so much for showing my quilt. It reminds me to get that one out again now that Spring is here – the fact that I forgot about it probably means I have too many????????

    • http://www.justbaustralia.com.au/ Pip @ JustB

      Oh my! It is my fave quilt of all time, Cassandra! you must get it out again! You are a clever quilty clogs! xxx