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January 28, 2005
Paints & Sheets & Bedskirts. Um. Oh My.
Could you recommend good sources for bed linens? Also how would you define high thread count? 400 count and above? And please offer some advice regarding the eternal trauma of bed skirts! It is so difficult to get a decent one and I hate bed in bags.
Hi! Sure.
Word on the street is that Williams-Sonoma Home's new line of bed linens is superb (1000 thread count? excessive much?), but whoa pricey. Calvin Klein has great options too. My current favorite soft amazing sheets are plain old Wamsutta, and they are 300 thread count.
The thing is, thread count is only part of the fabulous bedding equation. Anything above 200 is really fine, but only in pure 100% Egyptian Cotton. For whatever reason, this makes a HUGE difference. My mom got a set of 600 thread count, 100% cotton sateen sheets last year, and they got pilly after about two washings. And she was out more than a hundred bucks. And it was sad. Apparently, Egypt does something super special to their cotton. Thanks, Egypt.
I, like so many others, am so obsessed with Dwell. They're 210 thread count, and yup, Egyptian. Most of all, the designs are awesome. Those are my hardcore wishlist sheets. They have "Lara's tax return" written all over them.
I too hate beds-in-bags. And I must admit, I am anti-dust ruffle/bed skirt. I think they are a little old fashioned, and cause more trouble then they're worth. In recent years I've opted for a platform bed that doesn't need one.
My last bed had a box spring though, and yes, the bedskirt was essential. I got this one from Bed Bath & Beyond and it totally did the job. I chose the white, so it sort of faded into the background unassumingly, as bed skirts should.
BB&B has a really wide selection of bed skirts, so it's easy to find at least one thing you like.
Oh, and an Apartmentalist reader has informed me that Ikea bedding is great quality for the price.
One last note: upscale discounters (TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Century 21, Filene's Basement and the like) have great markdowns on fabulous linens of all kinds.
Hi,
I love your website!
Would you mind telling me what paint you used on the following rooms:
Thanks so much!
Thank you! The first room is Behr's Blue Feather, and the second is Martha Stewart's Quaking Aspen. I gotta say though, don't use Behr. Grab the Blue Feather swatch and match it to another brand. If at all possible get Benjamin Moore paint, the best paint ever.
I've never had a good experience with Behr paint. When we used rollers on that blue room, it would dry as soon as it hit the wall, and when we immediately (seriously, like, instantly) recovered even a portion of the the same area, it would peel up and get all gloopy and gross. Like, roll up, fine coverage. Roll down, hey, what happened?
I also had a terrible experience with a Behr red that made my bathroom look like a crime scene. Streaky, drippy, bad bad news.
I really really love that shade of blue, though. And the Martha Stewart Quaking Aspen is so tranquil for a bedroom.
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Posted by Lara at January 28, 2005 12:53 PM
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Comments
About the sheets, it's not the Egyptain cotten that caused the sheets to pill. Did she buy a known name brand sheet or think she was getting a great buy on sheets? See http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/consumer/beauty/articles/0,,284522_539658,00.html for an explaination
Posted by: Denise Keppel at January 28, 2005 06:27 PM
Thanks for the great link, Denise! Explains a lot. I seem to recall too that some companies use chemical softeners to deceive consumers, and that they just rinse out after a few washings, leaving you with rough linens.
I think she did buy recognized brand name sheets, I'll have to ask her which brand. So we can all avoid it.
Posted by: Lara at January 29, 2005 10:18 PM
Bed skirts drive me nuts! The last one I had must have been cheap, it fell apart in a year.
My set up now, which I believe I got from Martha Stewart, is a cheap fitted sheet on my boxspring that blends in well with my duvet cover. I told all my family/friends about how wonderful it was when I found this non-bed skirt option.
Posted by: nudging30 at January 31, 2005 11:27 AM
Nudging30--
The fitted sheet thing is a FABULOUS idea, wow. Thank you!
Posted by: Lara at January 31, 2005 01:42 PM
Very informed and interesting comments! Greetings.
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