Bed Making Fundamentals

Bed Making
by Khoo jia Ying

What is Bed Making?

Bed making is the act of arranging the bed sheets and other bedding on a bed to prepare it for use. Bed making is not only the household chore, it is also performed in establishments including hotels, hospitals, military and educational residences.

Why is it important that you should make your bed?

1. It helps keep things clean

~ It makes your room looks more tidy and also minimize the surface area on which dust can collect by your bed.

2. To develop self discipline

~ Say goodbye to your laziness by tidy up your bed every morning before doing other things.

3. Start the day on the right foot

~ Wouldn't it feel great to cross something off your to-do list as soon as you wake up? Also, your mood will be better through the day with a tidy bed.

Supplies and Equipment needed for bed making

- Two large cotton sheets.

- One water proof draw mackintosh (if necessary)

- One draw sheet (if necessary)

- One or two pillows.

- Pillow covers.

- One blanket optional.

- One bed cover or counterpane

Hotel Bed Making Steps

1. Be ready with all the supplies needed and make sure all linens are clean enough to be          change.

2. Place your mattress pad on top of your mattress.

3. Put on the fitted bottom sheet.

4. Lay down your flat sheet.

5. Place the cover on the bed.

6. Fold in all of the corners.

7. Place pillows in their corresponding pillowcases, fluff and then flatten to stand tall.

Do you know?

  In the year of 1993, two nurses from the Royal Masonic Hospital in London, which is Sharon Stringer and Michelle Benkel, created a new Guinness World Records that two people a team make a bed with one blanket, two sheets, an undersheet, an uncased pillow, one pillowcase, one counterpane and hospital corners in only 14.0 seconds!

  On 22 October 2018, a man from Hong Kong, Chow ka Fai, which is also a member of the Housekeeping Team of Cordis Hotels, was recorded in Guinness World Records which took only 1 min 09 sec to complete a bed and achieved the fastest time to make a bed by an individual (king size bed).