A hotel bedroom at home: 7 details
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The short answer
Pull the sheets tight, then set two pillows to sleep on and two to look at, with silk on the one under your cheek. Light the room from a warm, low lamp, close the curtains fully, keep water and a book within reach, and turn the bed down before you brush your teeth.
Monday, a quarter to midnight. A text from your sister: “Where are you?” You write back “Home”, and for once it sounds like the better plan.
It is an easy answer when your bedroom feels like a good hotel room. That feeling comes from small details, repeated every evening until they look effortless. Here are seven to copy tonight.
How do you make a bed look like a hotel bed?
1. Sheets pulled tight. A hotel bed starts at the bottom. Pull the fitted sheet taut until the mattress shows no crease, then smooth the duvet with the flat of your hand, from the centre out.
2. Two pillows to sleep on, two to look at. Build the bed in layers: two pillows for sleeping and two that only dress the bed by day. At night, the second pair waits on a chair.
3. Silk on the pillow you sleep on. The pillows you look at can wear anything. The one under your cheek is the one you feel for eight hours, so that is where the silk goes. Hair glides over silk instead of rubbing, so blowouts last and mornings start with fewer tangles. More in what a silk pillowcase really changes.
How do you get the light and quiet right?
4. A warm lamp, low down. At night, light the room the way a hotel does: from the bedside, never from the ceiling. Choose a bulb marked 2,700 K. ADEME, a French public agency, describes light below 3,000 K as warm, the slightly yellow white of old bulbs, and calls it ideal for a bedroom.
5. Curtains that close all the way. The INSV, France’s national institute for sleep and vigilance, recommends darkness and silence in the bedroom. Draw the curtains edge to edge, close any shutters and cover the small lights on chargers. A mask takes care of the last stripe of light, and our lie-in guide finds every other gap.
What goes on the bedside table?
6. Water and a book. A glass of water, a book, the lamp, and nothing else. The INSV suggests a calm activity in the evening, reading among them. Chargers and yesterday’s post can live elsewhere.
How do you do a turndown at home?
7. The turndown. In a hotel, the turndown is the evening visit that readies the room for the night: curtains drawn, a lamp on, the duvet folded back at one corner, water by the bed. At home, it takes two minutes, best done before you brush your teeth. Fold back your corner, switch on the lamp, set the mask by the water, and you come back to a bed that is waiting.
Where Siluxe fits
Back to the message: home, and the bed already turned down. The Siluxe silk pillowcase is the detail you feel, smooth and fluid under your cheek. It is 100% mulberry silk, 22 momme, with an envelope closure and a tone-on-tone embroidered S monogram, in Standard 50 × 70 cm (Rose gold or Gold) or Euro 65 × 65 cm (Gold), at 84 €. Designed in Paris.
The Siluxe eye mask, cut from the same silk and offered in five colours at 35 €, waits by the water. Darkness, softly. Complimentary delivery from $100 on USD orders: the two together qualify.
FAQ
How do hotels get their beds so smooth?
With a bottom sheet pulled taut and every layer smoothed by hand. At home, pull the fitted sheet tight from the corners, then smooth the duvet from the centre out.
Which bulb gives a warm bedroom light?
A warm white, marked around 2,700 K. ADEME places warm light below 3,000 K and calls it ideal for a bedroom.
What is a turndown service?
The evening visit that readies a hotel room for the night: curtains drawn, lamp on, duvet folded back, water by the bed. At home, it takes two minutes.
Which pillow should get the silk pillowcase?
The one you sleep on. Measure it first: a rectangular pillow takes the Standard 50 × 70 cm, a square one the Euro 65 × 65 cm.