Follow these steps to cool your bedroom, your body, and lighten your mind for better sleep during hot nights.
Our recommended summer sleep wellness products:
- 4-7 Tog Light Summer Duvet, Cashmere Guard & Organic Cotton
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Wool & Organic Cotton Bed Pillows
- Bed Blankets
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Washable Natural Mattress Topper
1. Stay hydrated throughout the day
Be mindful of your water intake to ensure your body never dehydrates. During hot weather you should increase your normal water intake. This will help keep your body well, and ready for sleep later on.
2. Keep curtains or blinds closed in your bedroom
Whilst the joy of seeing the sunlight flood through your windows is a treasure to wake up to on a morning, we recommend keeping it short-lived. The light passing through the glass will heighten the ambient temperature of the room. To combat this, close your blinds or curtains to maintain darkness. This will ensure your bedroom stays cool all day and later into this evening when you’re ready to go to bed. If you live in a house with lots of windows, we recommend keeping the blinds and curtains closed in as many rooms as you can. This will help to lower the overall temperature of your home, which in turn helps to cool your body and bedroom.
Read more: How to design a bedroom that prioritises sleep, health and the planet
3. Replace your duvet with a lighter tog
The Ava Innes Light Summer duvet has been named Best Luxury Summer Duvet of 2025 by The Independent.
Read more: Do you really need a duvet in summer?
4. Consider a bed blanket
A wool or cashmere bed blanket with a sheet underneath is the traditional way of sleeping. And it’s ideal for heatwaves. So many of our clients enquired about them that we launched our own luxury bed blankets. View them here.
5. Opt for a cooling mattress topper
If you have a foam or other type of synthetic mattress, we recommend that you upgrade your bed cost-effectively with a natural wool mattress topper. Synthetic materials are oil based, and heat up the body quickly. Our wool and organic cotton mattress topper will protect you from this by creating a natural, breathable, and temperature regulating barrier between you and the foam.
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6. Take a hot shower before bed
It may sound counterintuitive, but in order to fall asleep the body’s core temperature must drop. It’s part of the metabolic processes that kick-start sleep, and keep us staying asleep. By warming your body in the shower (or bath), and subsequently cooling shortly after, the sleep process will be encouraged along by the drop in your core body temperature.
7. Prepare an iced hot water bottle
Our luxury water bottles can be filled with cold water and ice. Either fill them with ice directly, or fill halfway with water and leave them in the freezer for 4 hours or more. You can place them under pillows or your wool mattress topper.
The Evening Standard: Ava Innes is named best duvet for sleepers who run hot
8. Choose natural bedding and bedlinen
Natural fibres such as cottons, linens, wool, and cashmere are all breathable. This is exactly what your body needs during extreme heat. Synthetic fibres, and feather and down, are not breathable. They trap moisture inside and very quickly generate heat. This is the last thing your body and bedroom needs during a heatwave. We choose organic cotton for its soft and gentle nature, a unique cashmere guard fill for its incredible temperature regulating properties, and wool for its bouncy yet dry, arid properties. Watch out for materials labelled as polycotton and poly-linen blends – they mix synthetic materials with natural fibres.
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