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A Country Home Makeover
Country home decor is a very popular theme and has been for many years. Cottage style, rustic, Americana, country plaids and checks, Victorian, European country, farm styles, log cabin, lodge styles, patriotic, and retro are all offshoots of country home decor, which emanate a warm, inviting feeling. Since such a wide range of styles and products fall under the country home umbrella, it’s easy to add these accents to your home.
Country bedding ensembles are part of this look when decorating a bedroom. Combine handmade quilts with your queen percale sheets to achieve a rustic, inviting façade. Nostalgic kitchen linens, bathroom accents, and vintage-inspired cookware, such as the Dutch oven, have made a comeback as accompaniments to the country home decor renaissance.
Different fabrics of bed sheets
Going shopping for new bed sheets for your bed should be an easy task. Walking into a bedding store and you start to look at all the sheet sets you notice how many different types of sheets, and fabric, and thread counts from 120 to 1000 and more. Looking at all the different shelves fill with sheet sets you think they are all the same, wrong they are all different makes and thread counts from single size to cal-king size.
Searching to see how many kinds of fabric there was I came across these names: Bamboo, Cotton, Cotton Blend, Egyptian cotton, Flannel, Italian Linen, Jersey, Modal, Muslin, Organic cotton, Percale, Pima Cotton, Sateen, Satin, Silk, Supima Cotton and Synthetic. Now that is a lot of different fabrics to think about when it comes to buying a set of sheets for your bed. I am going to pick just a couple to talk about and explain the fabric type in my next couple of blogs. Let’s start with Bamboo the first one.
Bamboo is quit new to the bedding world. It comes from the pulp of the bamboo grass. The fabric is resistant to bacteria and is also hypo-allergenic. If you know some one or a family member who suffer with allergies this is a great alternative to organic cotton since bamboo grows quickly using less water then cotton and without fertilizers or pesticides. Bamboo sheets are soft, supple and silky to touch.
Cotton: This is another one of the fabrics I mention above and cotton is the most popular fabric. Cotton is considered the best all season fiber. It is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Cotton breathes keeping body moisture away from the skin.
Bamboo Cotton Sheets
Bamboo cotton sheets are soft, luxurious fusion of bamboo cotton with Egyptian cotton. Bamboo fibers are as soft as silk and naturally breathable, and are an eco-friendly fiber. You’ll love sleeping on this fabulous bedding. It feels cool in the summer and warm in winter. It doesn’t pill, so the silky softness lasts and lasts. With 60% of Bamboo cotton & 40% Egyptian cotton, makes this new product in a class above the rest. As many people are used to Egyptian cotton sheets, this new blend creates a meeting point between old and new, luxury and softness.
Why we Want Egyptian cotton Bed Linen #3
Here is the number three reason we want to have luxury Egyptian cotton linen.
We talk about Egyptian cotton being the smoothest and softest in the world. We also mention in the second article about Egyptian cotton being moisture absorption capacity and breathability.
This third reason is you- yes, you and everyone who enjoys and deserve some pampering and luxury. Like a lot of us we cannot afford to own luxury cars like Mercedes-Benz, but purchasing quality Egyptian cotton sheet sets is affordable. Pampering our selves with fine bed linens is a better choice then a luxury automobile. Think about it we spend more time in our beds then our cars. Remember this that softness of fine Egyptian cotton improves with age and washing, while our cars just depreciates, wears out with age and use.
After reading these three article why you want Egyptian cotton bed linens, go our and indulge and pamper yourself in the luxury of new sheets. Go ahead and experience the dry, cozy comfortable softness and smoothness against your skin while you sleep.
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Why We Want Egyptian cotton Bed Linens #2
Here is number two reason for wanting to buy Egyptian cotton bed linen.
Egyptian cotton is great for its moisture absorption and its breathability. This is important for people when sleeping to stay dry and comfortable. While sleeping a person’s skin gives off small amounts of perspiration and transferring it to the air in the room. This caused by the ability of the cotton as it is able to breath. With the Egyptian cotton sheets staying dry and comfortable this insures a sound sleep for a person despite the naturally perspiring body.
The next reason for Egyptian cotton linens will be about pampering yourself in these luxury linens.
Why We Want Egyptian cotton Bed Linens #1
We all like luxury bed linens. That’s why we choose Egyptian cotton bed linen as it will last for decades and become softer with each laundering. Beside these two facts there are three more reasons for buying the very best bed linens. Here is the first of the three and I will write about the other two later.
Egyptian cotton is the smoothest and softest cotton in the world. The reason for this quality of cotton is it is made from the longest staple or fiber of any cotton variety. These cotton fibers have very small diameters or thickness. The long thin fibers of Egyptian cotton are twisted in to small threads or yarn they become a strong smooth yarn results with longer lengths of continuous fiber than other cotton varieties. After these thin fine yarns are weaved into fabric, the results are a finer textured material which feels very soft and smooth. Later I will writer the next two reasons for wanting Egyptian cotton bed linens.
Setting up the Guest Room at the Cottage
The days are getting longer and warmer as we get ready to head for the cottage to open up for another great summer. Looking at the bedding from the guest room it looks a little worn. This is the time to freshen up the guest room before the summer gets started and you start inviting friend’s and family to join you at the cottage.
The one new item for the guest room is a new set of sheets. Bamboo sheets have become the latest home accessory for the past few years. The benefits of using bamboo sheets is that there soft almost like silk but you don’t feel like your slipping and sliding with bamboo sheets.
These sheets are anti- bacterial and have hypoallergenic qualities giving them the ability to resist bacteria. This makes bamboo an ideal material for bedding given the recent coverage of the problem s such as bed bugs.
Bamboo is great in the summer and winter months. The material can a just to the climate by keeping your guest cool in the hot summer months and warm in the cooler nights. This is because it’s insulation ability and the material’s breathing nature.
With these new fresh bamboo sheets on your guest room bed your guest and family will surely enjoy there summer visit with you at your cottage this summer.
Bedding for Summer
If looking for a sound sleep you need to have comfortable bedding that includes pillows, sheets, comforters, duvets, blankets and quilts. Suitable bedding for summer is cotton and silk. Cotton with a higher thread count is more soft and comfortable. Ecru cotton is a good pick for summer. With cotton bedding you have good air circulation that guarantees a comfortable sleep during hot summers. During the summer nights if the temperature should fall you can use a light fleece blanket. Cotton used in cribs is best for the summer if you have babies at home.
Silk is a great summer bedding to use in the summer to keep you cool on hot nights. Silk bedding is lightweight and has a lasting elegance that can also be used year round.
Satin is another luxurious bedding material that you can use in the summer. This type of material is very smooth and gives a cooling effect in the summer nights. Sheets, pillow covers and comforters made with satin are excellent summer bedding even for those with sensitive skin
Cotton, silk and satin bedding is easy to care for and come is many colors. This summer bedding come is floral designs as well as printed including cartoon characters and sports.
Bamboo Sheets and Allergy Suffers
Suffering from allergies, waking up with red eyes a runny nose and lots of congestion maybe you should think about buying bamboo sheets. How does this help people who suffer from allergies Well bamboo sheets will not cause allergies to shoot off the charts? Tracing the roots of any sheet material you will find that regular sheets can cause an allergic reaction. Bamboo sheets are ideal for those who suffer from allergies.
Bamboo material is derived from the eco- friendly bamboo plant; where as natural sheets are made from natural materials. The bamboo plant is naturally hypoallergenic, since the fibers do not cause allergic reactions. Cotton is often placed in the “natural” category though this is debatable.
The difference between cotton and bamboo is cotton is known to cause allergic reactions like itching rashes, and hives. Synthetic material like sateen, satin and polyester are also known to cause plethora for allergic reactions.
Synthetic materials are made from various chemicals causing allergic reactions. Most sheets on the market today are made with mixture of different materials. Cotton usually has a mix of material like polyester this helps to lower the cost of cotton sheets. Synthetic materials are often mixing with other synthetic materials which then cause harmful chemicals. When buying sheets and the word “blend” is in the description this coded word means there is mixed material in the product. Try to avoid buying these types of sheets if you are an allergy suffer.
If you suffer from allergies make your next purchase bamboo sheets luxurious eco-friendly, hypoallergenic bed sheets made from100% bamboo fibers. This could be one way to helping your allergy problem.
Queen Size Mattresses
By Jenny Watson
Queen size mattresses are amongst the most popular size. Their size makes them comfortable, as you can stretch out into your preferred sleeping position without your hands or feet hanging off the bed and without disturbing your partner. A queen mattress set is a great investment.
Queen Size Mattress Dimensions
A queen size measurement is sixty by eighty inches. When you compare this to a standard double bed at fifty four by seventy five inches you can see that it is more generous and therefore a lot more comfortable if you like to stretch out.
An Olympic queen size mattress measures sixty six by eight inches. Simmons is well known for this size and it is worth buying one of these if you want some extra room.
Buying Tips
You will need a bed frame with five or six legs to support a queen size mattress because it is bigger and heavier than smaller models. If your bed has a headboard and footboard, you will need to use a minimum of five wooden slats with three of them arranged in the center third of the bed.
An innerspring mattress will last about ten years. A memory foam or latex mattress should last double this amount of time. Some memory foam can last for twenty five years but they do vary according to how you treat them and what kind of brands you have. When it is dirty, you can clean it with a slightly damp cloth and a mild surface cleanser or with a vacuum cleaner.
A queen size mattress needs to go on top of a firm base so it does not sag. You should rotate a new mattress every four weeks for the first half a year, and then every couple of months after that.
We always should make sure that we take the measurements of our mattress to get the perfect fit ted sheets as some mattresses need queen sheet sets with deep pockets.