what's up internet dyce quirk here and today i'm going to be showing you how to set up a
japanese futon and that's because japanese futons are not only affordable they're also
comfortable and they also can help you save a lot of space inside of your house because they
pulled up and you can put them in a closet or just put them off to the side and then gain so
much more room so let's start off by showing you our futon now this futon is divided into
three sections so it folds up like a square a lot of futons are actually softer and so you can fold
them up by three ways or four ways whatever you have to and you can just put it in the
corner but set up for this is pretty easy just pick it up like this and bam we have the futon
set outward now the next step is taking your futon and i'm going to step over here
and putting a sheet on it so our sheet here actually has a zipper here on the end
and what you do is you unzip the zipper all the way around now you can take a regular
sheet and just tuck it onto the sides but i totally recommend getting one of these special
futon sheets so you just take it open it up and slide it in there so let's take care of that real
quick okay now that we have this sheet on one of the reasons why i recommend this particular sheet
instead of just a regular sheet to wrap around it is because it wraps completely around the mattress
and that just means when you wake up the sheets aren't coming off the mattress and you don't
have to keep on resetting that so but i don't know about you but for me i love not having to reset my
sheets every day for the japanese futon i really love it now the next step is you can either add
a duvet like this one the duvet is just like a nice
cushiony blanket that is gonna help you uh retain a lot of heat a lot this particular duvet doesn't
have a cover on it typically you would have the duvet and then there would be a duvet cover
that you could switch out with different designs and stuff ours is still in the mail
so we haven't got to try that out yet but uh you can either set this on or during the winter a
lot of people will set an additional blanket on their bed or on their japanese futon and then
they'll put the duvet over there so for right now i'm just going to be setting this up
i got this in the way so it's not going to look super nice but
there we go and naturally the last thing you need is a pillow
okay pillow so take a pillow put it here bam you're good to go another thing that you should
know is we because i'm married we actually have two futons and we originally were going to try to
shoot for a queen-size futon if you're a single person a single or a twin size futon also known
as in japanese they're going to be perfectly fine for you don't worry it is a great size
we just wanted the queen because again there's two of us and so what we've settled with is we
actually have two single futons and we put them next to each other which i'll be honest isn't the
best because there's like that crease in between the two futons so if you can find a queen-size
futon or a king-sized futon if you're married or just want two people in it then definitely check
out the queen or king size if you can find one on amazon there's a few but there's a thickness that
i would recommend i would go above two and a half inches in the description of this video if you're
interested in checking out a futon or getting a duvet for a futon or any of that i actually have
a number of different links for you to check out i really recommend the link to the futon that
we're recommending because when i was searching on amazon there's a bunch that have a 2.5 inch
thickness and i think that's just a little bit too small my crouton is an 8 centimeter which
comes out to a little bit over the 2.5 inches so in addition to that i wanted to tell you a couple
extra little facts about futon so let's talk about that so a couple things that i wanted to mention
about the futon which i believe is kind of a plus versus a regular mattress is probably once a month
you should take your futon and you should hang it out in the sunlight now the reason why they do
this is because the sun has natural rays they'll kill off a lot of the bacteria that is on your
mattress now with a regular mattress i don't know the exact stats so i'll put them in the corner
here but after a certain number of years there's actually a portion of the weight of your mattress
that is made up of just dead skin cells and other just nasty things so with a japanese futon you
actually have the ability to put this out in the sun and it'll naturally kill a lot of the
different bacterias and everything else that's on your mattress and in your mattress so that's just
one plus now if you actually have tatami inside of your house or if you have something like tatami
underneath your mattress it's really good to make sure you fold up your mattress like either daily
or by daily or maybe at least once a week so that any moisture that gets trapped under the mattress
is actually going to have cha chance to dry up and just dissipate so that's one other thing and also
i didn't mention it in the beginning of this video but typically in japan
they have a closet uh specifically for japanese futon it's called in oshiire
now an oshiire inside of a typical japanese house looks like this now we are storing things a little
bit differently than people might typically store inside their oshiire but for us we just needed the
extra storage and we don't typically put our futon inside of the closet so if you have a japanese
apartment you know definitely you can put it in there if you're living inside of a western home
and you don't have a big closet like this then you could just fold up your futon and put it
in the corner of the room that'll just free up a whole lot of room and you can use that
extra space for whatever you want along with that one quick disclaimer the japanese futon
is not necessarily for everybody personally myself i love it i haven't had any back problems or
anything with it my wife originally we had like a thinner mattress and so it wasn't as pleasant
for her but then we bought a thicker mattress and now we both absolutely love them and that's
why in the description of this video i'm actually including a link to a three inch futon which is
definitely gonna be better than the two and a half inch right now i use an eight centimeter futon
which we bought from the tori but nitori i don't believe ships to america so that's why i'm putting
an amazon link for you guys and also in the description i'll put a link to a little bit
of extra cushion that are typically added to futon that way if three inches isn't enough and you want
just a little bit extra cushion on top of that you can get that as well now one last thing uh
if you already own a japanese futon and you're enjoying it please let me know in the comments
tell me about your futon experience in addition to that if you enjoyed this video and found it
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