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You may think you know how to make your bed — but here’s how to make it a lot better. By Tim McKeough Choosing a good bed frame and mattress is important, but there’s something else that matters ...

Fold your sheet into thirds lengthwise, smoothing as you go. Based on the size of your storage, you can fold it as many times as you like, as small as you like. You should be left with a compact ...

You probably know how to make a bed: You start with a fitted sheet, scrunch a top sheet between your bed frame and mattress, and enter into what feels like a fight for your life as you try to shimmy a ...

Whether you're making your bed in the morning—or stripping it down, laundering everything and starting from scratch—here's how to do it right Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

We've all had the nightmare experience of folding a fitted sheet for the first time. It goes a little like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in frustration, cursing and ...

There are two absolute certainties in my life: I’ll never be able to insert a USB correctly on the first try, and I’ll always have to rotate my fitted sheet at least once before I manage to affix it ...

I am swimming in sheets. I test and review sheets of all kinds here at WIRED, which means there are at least a dozen sets of sheets in my house at all times. I spend a ridiculous amount of time doing ...

In addition to favoring mattress of a certain firmness, and sheets made from some materials but not others, most people also have a preference when it comes to how a bed is made. To put it in ...