Keep Your Cool ; Throw Off the Duvet for Summer and Sleep in Silk and Crisp Linen, Says Barbara Chandler

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IT'S summer and so it's off with the winter duvet to wash or dry clean it then store. Not so easy in a small London flat with limited space, so buy a vacu-pack storage bag that extracts the air and enables you to store the duvet flat in a drawer. Argos sells a set of two vacu bags for Pounds 11.99, while The White Company sells a simple cotton box-shaped storage bag. And now it's time to replan your bed linen.

The secret of comfortable summer nights is layering. Pippa Southward, owner of luxury South Kensington store, The Linen Merchant, says: "Use linen and cotton sheets, throws and bedspreads, so you can peel them back as necessary - and avoid all synthetics on the bed in summer."

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Keep Your Cool ; Throw Off the Duvet for Summer and Sleep in Silk and Crisp Linen, Says Barbara Chandler

For maximum comfort, bed linen in 100 per cent cotton or linen absorbs body moisture. Get the finest quality you can afford. Look for "percale" with a "thread count" of more than 180 threads to the square inch. The White House, fo...

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