Beds

Little improvements make time spent working easier. Today, making a bed.

Follow these steps to dress it with a fitted sheet, then a boxspring bedskirt, then a flat sheet and comforter.

Dress a bed using a fitted sheet from a corner at the head opposite your dominant hand to your dominant hand’s corner. Then if the short corner does not fit, restart by rotating the fold you’re holding to the foot’s corner on your side. Immediately following, dress again the short corners at head or tail, using what’s in your hand, starting from the head down to the foot. Finally, completely tuck the sheet underneath the bed mattress at the foot of the bed.

Ensure that your bed is supported by a boxspring, before adding a bedskirt. Dress a bed using a bedskirt by first raising up the mattress from the boxspring, then resting the bedskirt on the boxspring. If your bedskirt has an imprint or a special rectangle reserved for the spot where the mattress meets contact with it, align it with the outer edge of the boxspring. Then reset the mattress, fitted-sheet-side-up.

To dress the bed using a flat sheet, start at the foot, and flap the sheet, making sure to have it come as far up to the head as possible. Do not tuck, until later in these steps.

Dress the bed with a comforter from foot to head. After dressing the bed with a bed skirt, fitted sheet, flat sheet, and comforter, ensure the bedskirt reaches the ground on all sides other than the bottom.

After all sides have been checked, check the bottom, so that while there you can begin tucking foot of the flat sheet only, then the comforter, and squaring their corners at the foot one-by-one. Square the corners at the foot by holding up the left and right edges of a sheet or comforter by its corner, up until part of the side makes a right angle with the bottom of the mattress, but without untucking. For sheets that correctly match the shape of the bed, this triangle you form at the foot should not be very long, perhaps not longer than the size of your own foot. Next, secure the bottom part of the triangle parallel to the bedside with your other hand. Tuck that corner under the side of the mattress you stand on, maintaining the triangle with your second hand. Now wrap the triangle you hold with your second hand over your first hand, tuck it in, and pull your first hand out.