Your bedroom is a place for sleep, rest and romance! Whether it’s to surprise your partner with new silky soft sheets, or just improve the sleeping surface with a new topper, there are plenty of little changes you can make for the better. We look at some romantic bedroom products to implement, depending on what type of couple you are, for comfort, protection, durability and practicality.

BEST BED SHEETS FOR ROMANCE - LEARN WHAT TO BUY

We all know that the quality of your sleep will affect the type of relationship you have with people. If you sleep with your partner you want to make sure you start everyday on the best foot possible. Sleep is related to marital satisfaction. Those with lower marital satisfaction are more likely than their counterparts to report symptoms of insomnia, daytime sleepiness, and they're getting less sleep than they did five years ago.  

WHY IS BEDDING IMPORTANT?

Gone are the days of a cheap bedding sets. Aside from a good night’s sleep, decent bedding is important for you comfort. Durability - sheets need to go through many rounds in the washing machine and not fall apart. All-around comfort - the feeling of rough sandpaper sheets is not sexy. Sleep in luxury and drift off in no time with our bedding collections at The Linen Cupboard. Whether you’re looking to create a boutique hotel bedroom worthy of 5 stars or essential sheets for durability, you’ll be spoilt for choice with our ranges. Find everything you need for blissful slumbers even in the most specialist sizes!

THREAD COUNT

Getting your sleeping environment right is essential for a great night’s slumber. Whether you want crisp percale, or smooth sateen, our range of Thread Count bedding gives you plenty of choice.  In general, the higher thread count, the better the material. It will be softer, endure more washes (sometimes getting softer over time), be more breathable, and be all-around more comfortable.) You’ll also want to aim for something over 400 (the highest being 1500).

PROTECTION

Protection is key, a mattress protector might be the most important accessory to have for your mattress. Many things can happen in a bed so you need to be ready and well protected for any eventuality. 

• Keeps the mattress clean. Human bodies are pretty gross. We all perspire at night. We all produce oil from our skins. Some of us wear makeup. We all also shed dead skin cells. There are other activities that can produce a “wet spot” on the bed. All of this can soak through your sheets and into the mattress. Once a little gets into your mattress, it’s almost impossible to get it out of your mattress. A mattress protector prevents any of that from getting into the mattress and can be taken off and washed.
• Keeps the mattress feeling in “like new” condition for longer. Perspiration (or any moisture, like spilling a drink) will wear down the foams in the mattress, shortening the comfort life. It’s a similar effect to a kitchen sponge after too many uses. Even if only a little moisture gets through, after years of every night use that adds up. You will need to replace your mattress more quickly without the protector.
• Helps prevent dust mite allergies from acting up. dust mite allergies are very common and can lead to issues such as sneezing, runny nose, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Dust mites eat dead skin cells, and there will be dead skin cells in your mattress if you don’t use a protector.

FABRIC

The smoothest sheets are 100% Cotton. Cotton-Polyester blends will endure better, won’t wrinkle, and be more affordable. But they won’t breathe as well, but are extremely durable and used by most high turnover hotels. For comfort and style, our bed linen is bound to deliver. Find, single, long single, small double, double, king and super king size, as well as the largest Emperor sizes and many others amongst our collection. Explore our range of bed linen in Egyptian or Pima cottons, which run from a crisp 200 thread count to an opulent 1200 thread count. Choose a fresh look in the bedroom with white bedding or turn your bed into a focal point with the latest platinum bed linen.

BUDGET

Good sheets will last you a very long time – and you might end up saving more money than if you had bought several cheap sets. While quality bed linens may cost more in the out set, it often works out ulitmately cheaper to invest in quality goods, as they do not need replaced nearly as often. In this respect it is certainly a good investment. Besides the monetary aspect, you will most often find that quality linens are both more comfortable and have better moisture absorbance.

DIRTY ISN'T SEXY

Make sure to change and wash your sheets once a week. It may sound like a no-brainer, but it’s sometimes easy to forget, especially if you’re busy and all you can do is open the door and fall on your bed after a long day at the office. The best way to wash your bedding is in the hottest water the material can stand. The hot water will do a better job of killing any pathogens and critters. Ironically, many care labels will instruct you to wash the sheets in cooler water. Before you toss your linens into the washer, check the label for any precautions and follow the instructions. If your linens can’t be washed in scalding water or placed on high heat in your dryer, then try hanging them out in the sun to dry. Sunlight is a natural antimicrobial agent, and it also kills mites. Another trick is iron your bedsheets. Again, this will help sanitize them without overly prolonging their exposure to heat.

PUT ON ANOTHER LAYER

A mattress topper will help revitalise a creaking uncomfortable mattress. Mattress toppers serve many useful and valuable purposes when choosing the right bed. Toppers can take an uncomfortable mattress and make it bareable or turn a great mattress into one that's fabulous! A mattress topper is an additional comfort layer that is added to a mattress to increase longevity and increase the comfort of your mattress. We recommend that all one sided mattresses should have a topper as this helps t increase the notoriously short life span of no-turn mattresses. For two-sided mattress models having a topper is really more subjective based on comfort, especially if you want to soften the mattress. Moving on to the longevity of the mattress we need to tackle the uncomfortable subject matter of sleeping directly on your mattress. This means there is nothing there to combat the three main enemies to your mattress:

• Body Perspiration – On average the body releases up to two pints of moisture each night. This is through sweat, breathing and other fluids. The only place for this to go is into the covers, duvet and ultimately your mattress. A mattress topper allows you to stop sweat and perspiration from reaching your core mattress. So even though the topper and covers will still absorb perspiration, it is far cheaper to remove, wash or even replace these than the entire mattress.
• Dead skin and bacteria – These will inevitably end up on the closest layers to the body and by using a topper again you can keep these away from your mattress.
• Undue settlement and indentations – As we have discussed on sagging, eventually foams will compress somewhat as this is the nature of the foam structure. By using a topper, you ensure that the top layers take any sag and not the mattress. It also allows you to replace the topper should you need to, ie if your body weight increases significantly pushing the original suitable mattress towards its limits. Ultimately it will allow you to replace the top layer or tweak the mattress feel later on.

Let’s Pull Back The Covers and Take a Closer Look…