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Add a quilt or coverlet at the foot of the bed for extra warmth, then finish with a mix of accent pillows in plush fabrics like velvet, chenille, or knit.
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Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
Choose one or two meaningful mementos to display, such as a quilt made by your great-grandmother.
Beneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.
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Sam Lipsyte,
Harper’s Magazine ,
27 Apr. 2022
The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.