The Best Dorm Bedding Catalogs for Freshman Move-In

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Why Dorm Bedding Shopping Doesn't Work Like Regular Bedding Shopping

Ordering a bed set for a residence hall room starts with the mattress, and the mattress is not the same everywhere. Many colleges use an extra-long twin: Ithaca College publishes its residence hall spec as "twin XL beds (mattress is 36" x 80" x 7")." But not every hall does. The University of Oregon's room dimensions page lists most halls with a "Twin XL, 80" x 36"" mattress and some with a "Regular twin, 75" x 36"." Five inches of length is the difference between a fitted sheet that stays on and one that does not. The school's own housing page is the specification that matters; the catalog's size chart is not.

The Company Store, Dormify, and DormCo are three catalogs that sell bedding in dorm sizes, and each is organized differently: one around bedding itself, one around a designed room, and one around the move-in season.

The Company Store: Bedding as the Core Product

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The Company Store treats bedding as its core product. Its catalog also sells bath, pajamas, home décor, kids and outdoor goods, but bedding leads, with a comforter lineup that spans down and down-alternative fill, and sheets that can be filtered to the Twin XL size.

That bedding-first structure makes The Company Store the more straightforward stop for a family that already knows what it wants — a well-made comforter, a matching sheet set, maybe a mattress topper — and doesn't need the shopping experience to also help plan the rest of the room. It's a good fit for students prioritizing bedding quality and fit over a fully styled room look.

Bedding is also most of the company's history. By its own account it was "founded in Wisconsin in 1911," when "The Lacrosse Garment Manufacturing Company is born," and it began by "crafting down comforters and featherbeds." The current name arrived much later — in 1973, when "Terry Gillette purchases the factory, renames it The Company Store." The catalog has since widened into bath linens, loungewear, kids and baby, home décor and outdoor living, but down bedding is the original product line rather than a category added to chase the dorm season. For a shopper comparing fill types, that lineage is the practical difference: this is the one of the three catalogs where comforter construction is the house specialty rather than one item in a move-in bundle.

Dormify: Bedding as Part of a Designed Room

Dormify takes a different starting point, leading with room design rather than a straight bedding list. Its site offers bedding bundles, a "Build Your Bed" tool, free design services and shop-by-room pages, so a bed can be planned as part of the whole room rather than bought piece by piece. Dormify is part of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

That approach makes Dormify a natural fit for students who want their bed to function as the visual anchor of the room and are shopping for a coordinated set rather than assembling pieces separately. It's less about picking the single best comforter in isolation and more about picking a bedding set that a decorating plan is built around.

DormCo: Bedding Built Around the Move-In Calendar

DormCo organizes its catalog around the move-in season. Its navigation leads with college packages, Twin XL bedding, Twin XL mattress toppers and comforters, and underbed storage and bed risers, with a separate list of named design collections for shoppers who want a coordinated look. Shipping is simple: DormCo's shipping page lists a flat $2.95 on the entire order, shipping the next business day and arriving within 4-8 business days, with an $8.00 "Fast Pass" to ship the same day on weekday orders placed before 1pm CT.

That structure removes some of the sizing guesswork: Twin XL is a top-level category rather than a size filter, and the flat shipping rate makes it easy to add risers or storage to the same order.

Check the Bed, Not Just the Mattress

The housing page usually says more than the mattress size, and the rest of it affects what to order. The University of Oregon's page lists, hall by hall, whether a bed can be raised: in some halls the bed "Cannot be lofted," while in others "All beds are loftable. Loft kits are limited. Requests are fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis." Two students on the same campus can end up with quite different setups.

That matters for bedding in practical ways. A lofted bed sits high, so a comforter that hangs well down the sides gets in the way of the desk or storage underneath, and a bed that can only be made from one side favors a fitted sheet with deep corners over one that has to be tucked. A bed that cannot be lofted is where bed risers come in, which is why DormCo sells them alongside its bedding. If the housing page does not say whether a bed can be lofted, ask the housing office before ordering risers or a loft-specific set.

Choosing Between the Three

The right one depends on what is driving the purchase.

  • Bedding depth and quality first — If the priority is comparing comforter fill options and sheet quality directly, The Company Store's bedding-first catalog structure supports that kind of side-by-side comparison better than a bundle-led catalog does.
  • A coordinated room look — If the bed is meant to set the visual tone for the whole room, Dormify's bundles and design tools do more of that styling work upfront.
  • One-stop move-in shopping — If bedding is being ordered alongside bed risers, storage, and other move-in accessories in a single trip, DormCo's move-in organization and flat-rate shipping keeps everything grouped by the same shopping occasion.
  • Return and exchange policy — Whichever catalog gets used, checking the return window before ordering matters more for bedding than for most move-in gear, since sheet fit and comforter loft can be hard to judge from a photo alone.

Tips for Ordering Dorm Bedding

Confirm the mattress size before ordering. As the Oregon page shows, halls on the same campus can differ, so check the specific building on the housing office's furniture specs. Order sheets in at least two sets when possible, since laundry access on most campuses is shared and less frequent than at home, and a single sheet set means sleeping on a bare mattress on wash day. Favor a comforter that can go in a standard washer and dryer over one requiring dry cleaning, since dorm laundry rooms rarely offer that option.

Check what the school actually supplies before building the list at all, because the answer is usually "the mattress, and nothing else." Ithaca College states it plainly: "each student needs to bring their own pillows, mattress pad, sheets, and blankets; these items are not supplied." Checking the building's mattress size before ordering avoids buying a set in the wrong size.

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