How to Make Your Bedroom Feel Like a Boutique Hotel – On a Budget
Take your bedroom from ordinary to 5-stars in a few easy steps.
The proverbial cherry atop a long haul flight is always the arrival at the hotel. The swipe of the key card, the drop of the bags and finally the chance to collapse on a clean, comfortable bed that must surely be better than our own if we paid this much for it. Truth be told: achieving hotel style in your own space doesn't need to be expensive. Below, we unpack nine tips to transform your own bedroom in luxury hotel style without leaving home – or overspending.
1. Outfit your bed in all white
A common theme across luxury hotels, white bedding is used to promote a sense of relaxation, newness and cleanliness for incoming hotel guests. Simulating the experience of floating on a cloud, former Vice President of Design for Westin and Sheraton Erin Hoover explains, “the all-white bed created this halo effect. People thought a room had been renovated, even if it was just the bed that had been changed. It had a huge impact.”
Nail this look with our White 100% French flax linen bedding set or Crisp White Bedding Bundle in organic cotton.
2. Perfect the pillow pile up
When it comes to luxury hotel trimmings, pillows make all the difference. Think more is more – a stack of pillows in different shapes and sizes will promote a sense of luxury and opulence, and also make for easy accessorising in the bedroom.
Shop our Regular, King or European pillowcases in 100% French flax linen or organic cotton, or linen scalloped pillowcases in a range of colourways and assemble symmetrically across the bed for a deluxe appeal.
5. Care less about thread counts
In spite of what many people think, sheets with a high thread count of 300 or more aren't intrinsically more luxurious. Consider opting for organic cotton bedding in a 200 thread count percale weave. This is the optimum construction for air circulation as the threads are woven loose enough to feel light and breathable but still ultra-smooth and soft. Higher thread counts often indicate a less breathable fabric with more threads densely woven in a thicker, sturdier fabric.
Alternatively, choose linen bed sheets that don’t have a thread count at all. French flax linen uses GSM or grams per square metre which indicates the material’s weight. Bed Threads linen has a GSM of 170 – making it lightweight, durable, easy to dry, cool in the summer and insulating in the winter, perfect for a lush sleep year-round.
8. Choose a Hotel-Worthy Duvet Insert
If you're trying to recreate the cloud-like comfort of a five-star hotel bed, your choice of duvet insert matters just as much as your sheets. Our Does-It-All Duvet Insert is designed to deliver that plush, weightless feeling you expect when you sink into a hotel bed – without the bulk or fuss. With a 500 GSM fill of breathable, plant-based lyocell, it offers the perfect balance of warmth and airflow for all-season comfort. The box-stitched pattern keeps the fill evenly distributed for that always-fluffy, never-clumpy finish making it the kind of everyday indulgence hotels swear by – only now, it’s yours.
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