Erm you know I toyed with a couple of DIY projects and “How-to” tutorial ideas.  So this is actually a How-to blog post – How to make your bedroom feel like a hotel room.

Since I started hosting on AirBnB (more on this later!) I’ve constantly been thinking how to make our place more comfortable? How to make it more inviting? How to make it so that we don’t lose out to hotels (besides our price la wtf)?  How to make our rooms cosier?  How to make it so our bedrooms got the hotel feel?

Here are four ways I think anyone can do easily without investing a lot of money.  Bear in mind there’s probably a lot more you can do.  A lot of my tips are going to be concerning textiles in the bedroom.  Why? We spend the most time snuggling down in bed so everything to do with the bed is going to be crucial.But I picked this list based on not having to spend too much money and for very little effort.

Invest in a down comforter

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A good quality down comforter goes a long way in upping the coziness factor in a bed!  Personally, down gives the best temperature balance – it keeps you warm in a cold room, and not overheated in a warm one.  Down is heavier than say, cotton batting, so it really makes me feel snug and comfy wrapped up in it.  Also it feels super luxurious!

Upgrade the sheets and pick white

Forget satin or whatever.  100% cotton sheets feel awesome – crisp and soft at the same time – especially if they’re of a high thread count.

I recently got new bedsheets from Elise (stocked in Isetan) made from Supima cotton.  Supima is grown in the US and it’s equal to Egyptian cotton.  The fabric is of a 1400 thread count and feels thicker than our old bedsheets and omfg it’s soooo comfy!  Getting into bed at night now is such a pleasure. 😀

To get even more ‘hotel feel’, get white sheets.  No printed florals or cartoon characters please wtf.  All hotel rooms use white bedding.  I read somewhere it’s because white is the easiest to spot stains on and replace if necessary, and for easier bleaching and cleaning.  But because the best hotels use white sheets, white bedding now represents luxury, cleanliness and a good night’s sleep.  Everything I want in my bed hahaha.

The details on my Elise Macrame Lace sheets.

I also got this set in white as well.  The black edging very classy leh!

Flowers

Another way to jazz up your bedroom is to simply add flowers to your bedside.

You can easily buy a few stalks of fresh flowers from the market, arrange them quickly in a vase on your bedside table, and voila! It looks prettier and cosier already.

However I would not choose sunflowers again wtf.  I picked them thinking they would look so cute cos of their bright yellow color.  But I forgot the inside brown part is very gross FML.  Looks like a shedding animal staring at me now wtf.

Next time I’d go for roses, or peonies.  Or even small plants like this!

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Towels

Again, textiles are super important in creating a sense of comfort and luxury.  In the bathroom, place a neatly folded WHITE fluffy towel on the rack and your bathroom automatically looks more shiok. Lolol.

My towels are also from Elise.  They’re soft, thick and absorbent very very nice to wipe with them hahaha.  And best of all, don’t leave lint on my skin wtf.

Rug

I never really thought about this until I started furnishing our other house.  I was looking for things to decorate empty rooms and just bought rugs to lay beside the beds.  It’s a great idea (ahem) because imagine you wake up, swing your legs to the floor to get up from the bed. And what do you feel? Instead of unwelcoming cold hard floor (or scratchy carpet), tadah! A nice soft rug to pamper your feet before they hit the ground running for the day. 😀

How to not like fluffy cozy rugs next to the bed!

Throw pillows

Oooh this is something that I realized when stalking AirBnB listings hahaha.  I realized that a lot of bedrooms overseas – like in the US or Europe – had this but not many Asian bedrooms did.

And that is throw pillows.

Throw pillows pull the look of a bed together. They bring a bed from merely a place to sleep to the centerpiece of the room.  Throw pillows can really enhance a bedroom’s decor (or entirely transform it) and up the atas factor.

Throw pillows can transform a boring bed like mine to…. To this!  At the Elise display in Isetan. Whoops totally blocking the bed wtf. Stole this off their website. The pillows make it look so pretty right?  When it comes to beds, the more pillows the better. (Also helps if you iron your sheets *furtive*) Penny agrees! (omg stoppit Penny don’t eat your skirt) I really really love my Elise sheets actually.  They’re a relatively new brand in Malaysia and are available at Isetan now. The quality is excellent and it’s gorgeous to look at.  And don’t need to say they feel soooo good around my legs after a long day – crisp, sturdy (not flimsy), smooth and soft. 😀 Dey see me rollin’, dey hatin’ Shiok hahaha. I’m giving out ten soft, fluffy, gorgeous Elise towels for you guys to try!  Just answer here What would you change about your bedroom and why? Comment here by 4^th January 2016 together with your email address, and you’ll be contacted on the way to collect the prize! Looking forward to reading your answers!

Update:

And the winners are:-

1) Karmun Ng
2) Emily Teo
3) Jacqueline
4) Denise Teoh
5) Tan Kai Wen
6) Wahida Samsuddin
7) Joann Lee
8) Wong Fung Shien
9) Siti Dalila
10) Catherine Tan

Congratulations guys! Someone from Nuffnang will be in touch with you soon. 🙂