Posts Tagged ‘bedding’
Preparing Your Guest Room
Getting ready for your house guest is not a big chore. You’ll want them to feel at home and to make sure there not bored or uncomfortable. Hopefully your house guest is good friends and you know their hobbies and interests.
Preparing the guest room is especially important. This is the room your visitors will stay and it should be a cozy haven, place which they can retreat and feel pampered.
Make you have the bed made with nice fresh bed linens. I find that when using Egyptian cotton sheets my guest just love to spend time in the guest room. Make sure you have vacuumed and dusted everything down just in case your guest suffers from dust allergies.
If you know what your guest’s like to read put some magazines and paperbacks on the night stand. Put some scent candles in the room with a book of matches in case they would like to light the candles.
The guest bathroom should have extra towels and face clothes. Leave unopened soap; bathe gel, shampoo, conditioner, bubbles bath and toothpaste within reach. A hair dryer, extra tooth brushes just in case they for get theirs and other bathroom staples should be left out for you house guests’.
When house guest come to stay the personal touches can make them feel at home. I’m sure they will be touched by your thoughtfulness and will be sure to return the favor in the future.
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.
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.
Spring Cleaning
I remember away back when it came around the month of April my mom would have us all pitching in to do spring cleaning around the house.
Mom would start with the kitchen cleaning out the cupboards throwing out old products that got shove into the back. Washing down the shelves putting everything back neatly in to the freshly clean cupboards. Mom always took care of the spring cleaning around most of the house.
My sister and I had one chore to do every spring and that was to do our own bed rooms. We would dust every thing in our rooms clean out our closets. Mom had us check out our winter wardrobe pack them away and get out our spring clothes. We would be at this all day as mom would check up on us to make sure it was done right.
The best part of spring cleaning was that we got to remove the flannel sheets. Mom would get us some new fresh Egyptian cotton sheets for the summer. We would put away our heavy duvets and put a freshly wash light coverlet blanket on our beds.
Spring cleaning for kid’s can be a big chore but in the end when all is done our rooms were fresh and bright ready to enjoy the coming months of spring and summer.
Your Personal Space Your Bedroom
Now that spring is here with nice warm weather it time to shed the dark colors from our bed and make it our new personal luxury space. We spend one third of our time sleeping, so let’s make our bed as comfortable as we can.
When we talk about is everything from the sheets to the quilt on the top of the bed. Sheets are categorized by there thread count. The more thread count the softer they become. Average sheets are around a 90 thread count which makes them nice, but for luxurious sheets you look at a 300 thread count. The higher the count the more expensive sheets become.
Pick out the highest thread count bedding set you can afford. Next is the comforter on your bed. There are a few options to choose from. You could choose wool, silk down feathers or synthetic polyester. If some one suffer from allergies check the labels of any linens to see if it is hypoallergenic. One of the bedding sets you could conceder is a luxury bed in a bag with all your linens matching is color and pattern. You could add a nice throw cover to the bottom of your bed using an accent color to your sheets and comforter.
Now to finish of your bed to look luxurious lets add different sizes and shapes of pillows on the top of the bed. Don’t forget to choose colors to match your bedding. Add two large pillows at the top of your bed agents the head board to give a felling of depth. You have now made your room and bed look like it was done by a designer.
Making your bedroom the most wonderful luxury space is done just by you choosing the right bedding set that you love.
Tips for Spring Decorating
Winter is behind us now and spring will be a upon us officially on Saturday March 20.With the warm sun starting to warm things up it’s time to do a little spring decorating to bring that bright sun in side.
We can brighten up a living room with fresh colorful flowers or we can use silk flowers too. Let’s take our throw pillows and cover them with new bright colorful covers. Put some spring garden magazines and flower books on the coffee table.
Let’s take away the heavy duvet cover in the bedroom, you can replace it with lighter comforter with bright spring color or with a coverlet blank in a soft warm color. Add some throw pillows to your bed also.
Putting away dark items and bringing out some crystal vases and clear cut glass will help bring the outdoors in side. With just a small change you can transform your home to fit the seasons. Changing the décor is like spring cleaning it doesn’t happen all at once but rather throughout several days or weeks. Just making these few changes in the spring will amaze you at the difference your home will make you feel after the long cold winter.
The Versatile Daybed Pop Up Trundle
By Sadie A Peterson
If you are looking to add some additional sleeping space to your room, the daybed pop up trundle combo is the way to go! You not only get sleeping space for two that only takes up space for one when not in use, but you also have options of where to sleep that second person.
The daybed pop up trundle is the easiest to use of the various trundle options. You just slide it out from under the bed, raise it to its normal height, and lock it into position. With a little bit of practice, you can probably do it with just one hand! No need to flip it all around while opening up the legs like with a lift up trundle unit. And because it is not a trundle drawer version, you can move the trundle bed wherever it is needed.
Most people think that when you set up your pop up trundle bed that you will put it alongside the daybed itself. Obviously this is an option, and probably the most preferred one if you are sleeping adults in the daybed. Simply line the two beds up together and you have the equivalent of a king-size bed. You can use either 2 twin-size sheet sets or you can use a king-size set. Then in the morning, strip the bedsheets, lower the trundle bed, slide it back under the daybed, and your room is back to normal.
But with your daybed pop up trundle, you have OPTIONS! You can slide the trundle out from under the daybed but leave it at ground level … great for when sleeping smaller children. Or you can raise the bed and put it anywhere else in the room where it fits better. Or, you can even put it in another room if you need to. Just be sure to not pop it up until you have it where you want it as the open trundle bed will be more difficult to move.
If you’re thinking about adding additional sleeping space somewhere in your house but are concerned that you really don’t have room to dedicate solely to sleeping the occasional guest, a daybed pop up trundle arrangement is by far your best bet. For the space of one bed, you get two beds … and you are not even required to sleep both those guests in the same room. Underneath the daybed is built-in storage space for your trundle bed so you won’t even have to find somewhere to store your extra bed.
Luxury Bed Linens
By Anthony J Davis
What defines luxury? For everything, there is a different answer, and it’s not always clear cut. In fact, many times, luxury is different for different people. In a car, some people feel luxury is simply big, soft seats. Some people have to have a lot power at their disposal. Others want a lot of high tech gadgets. Many people feel that a luxury car is a combination of all these factors. So what is luxury bedding?
What Is A Duvet?
The traditional stuffing for the duvet is down from the Eider Duck, called Eiderdown. The duvet was not invented with luxury in mind, but rather to keep warm using something nearby. Now that duvets can be found all over the world, those still made with Eiderdown definitely fall under the category of luxurious bedding. A duvet covers generally replaces comforters and blankets, and is then itself covered since the Eiderdown is difficult to clean.
What Makes Luxury Bed Sheets?
Bed sheets are normal, but not all are luxury bed sheets. There are several different ways to measure quality in bed sheets, though only a few are used everywhere. This is thread count, as well as the threads’ country of origin. Choosing your luxury bedding should involve more research than just those terms, but they’re the two you’ll see most often advertised. The best, softest luxury bed linens don’t necessarily have the highest thread count, or come from Egypt.
Matelass
Although sometimes marketed as a luxury bed linen all its own, it’s traditionally not. In fact, this French word actually means “padded”. When referring to luxury bedding sets, it generally means a hand quilted, thick luxury bed linen which, ironically, has no padding within it at all. Sometimes there are designs quilted into the linen, but sometimes it’s just a generic quilted pattern. They’re usually 100% cotton, though some Matelass is made of other things.
Coverlet
For the most part, the coverlet is purely decorative, and often sits atop a duvet or other thick covers. Besides being used on a luxury bed, the coverlet can also be found being used a throw blanket, or even a picnic blanket. They are generally quite thin, and are rarely suitable for keeping warm. Although coverlets have been around for a while, they have been largely replaced by duvet covers in most luxury bedding ensembles. The coverlet is still used by some, though, and can be found in a wide variety of designs and patterns. They can be purchased individually, or found in a luxury bedding set.
Staying in a 3 Star Hotel
Last week I had the opportunity to stay at a 3 star hotel. I was going to a small conference in a city not far from home but knowing it would be late at night to drive home I decided to book a room. I book the hotel on line and some times you wonder if the rooms are as nice as the pictures.
When I walk into the hotel it was every bright and clean and well kept. The room I had was just like the picture on the website.
It had a mini kitchen with full frig, 2 electric burners to cook on, a microwave oven and a dish washer all the amenities of home. There was chesterfield on one side of the room and the bed on the other.
The bed was made up with nice white cotton sheets and lots of pillows. The comforter was a chocolate color with a white design through it. There was also a matching pillow to go with the down comforter.
This room was all that I hope it would be well maintain ,clean, bright and with all the luxuries you look for when you book a hotel room away from home.
This hotel was to me a 3 + more and I would look to stay at this hotel again if it was in the area I was going to in the future.
The Most Comfortable Pillows in the World
By Brenda Pastore
Deciding on the most comfortable pillow in the world is pretty subjective. Some folks swear by their synthetic fill ones, claiming they are better than down ones because they have more support or are less expensive or they are hypoallergenic.
There is another group of people that would never consider buying anything but a memory foam model for their bed. Foam ones are known to provide a lot of support and can actually shape to the contours of your neck, preventing aches and pains from sleeping in a bad position. This is also a good choice if you are allergic to feathers.
But probably the first choice for most people would be the down version. Laying your head on a down pillow is like sinking into a cloud. If you are the type that looks forward to the comfort of your bed after a long, busy day, then you owe it to yourself to try out one of these. When properly cared for, down pillows can last for many years, so it is often a good investment to purchase a high quality pillow.
The next big question is how much to spend on a down product. You will find choices from $20 to $200. Watch out for the ones that are very inexpensive. They are often filled with mostly regular feathers with a little bit of down included. You should be able to see the percentage of down in the product before you purchase.
Down feathers are the small, silky feathers that make a pillow soft and fluffy. They do not have quills that can poke through the ticking. More expensive pillows will often be stuffed with only down feathers. While some people believe that you must spend over a $100 for a quality down product, you could probably find a very comfortable model in the $50 - $60 price range. If you want to spend less than that, look for a good quality down alternative version.
Considering how much time we spend sleeping, it is well worth the time and expense to find a great pillow that will help us get a good rest at night. Many people will spend a lot of time and effort shopping for a new bed. It is a good idea to take an inventory of your bedding at the same time. Why not upgrade that pillow and comforter at the same time? You deserve to be sleeping on the most comfortable pillow in the world.