http://thelinendoctor.com Your Rx for Luxury Linens Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:28:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When the Obama family starts living the in the White House, they will have quite a few rooms to consider redoing…the Executive Mansion has 16 bedrooms, most notably the White House Master bedroom, but also the famous Lincoln and Queens bedrooms, as well as a number of less formally named ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens-odds-and-ends/white-house-bath-table/ Customers who purchase organic cotton products often ask about environmentally friendly cleaning, both at home at the local dry cleaners. We recommend Holiday Cleaners, 1820 Polk St., San Francisco since they are one of five GreatEarth® San Francisco dry cleaners listed on the GreenEarth Cleaning website, www.greenearthcleaning.com. A GreenEarth® Cleaning may ... http://thelinendoctor.com/fine-linen-care/environmentally-friendly/ Because Egyptian cotton has a luxury cachet, many customers ask if a sheet or duvet cover they are interested in is made from that type of cotton. The Egyptian government is making that information more accessible by recently launching an initiative that would lead to the licensing of 100 percent ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/linen-history/egyptian-cotton-sheets/ Yesterday Mikhael Romain, a design editor from the magazine California Home + Design, came to the store to interview me on what’s new in table linens for Fall 2008. She wanted to see the newest, latest thing and I explained that fashions in table settings don’t change quite as quickly ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/fine-table-linens/whats-table-linens/ The annual New York International Gift Show, held August 16-19, is so much bigger and grander than the comparable show recently held in San Francisco. Not only were the vendor booths in the At Home section held at Pier 94 and the Javits Convention Center much larger in size and ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/york-gift-show/ It’s always exciting to go New York for any reason and today I’m off to New York for the annual gift show, which includes a home section. All of our main vendors will be showing either at the Javits, the Piers, in permanent showrooms. Besides seeing new introductions, it’s always great ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/pillow-talk/off-to-new-york/ When I go to this show a few times every year, it’s more to look for display ideas and see design and color trends that are developing. When Shelley, the home accessory and gift buyer, and I went on July 27, we specifically went looking for things to go with ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/pillow-talk/francisco-international/ We get this question all of the time. The main reason is that mattresses are no longer a standard size and most are much thicker now than in the past since the “high profile” mattresses are considered more luxurious. A very common complaint years ago was the fitted sheets were ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/linen-history/don%e2%80%99t-fitted-sheets/ A full bed, also called a double bed, measures 54x75. A queen measures 60x80 and so many manufacturers make a full/queen flat sheet that is really a queen flat sheet and a full/queen comforter that is really a queen comforter. It is simply less expensive to produce and stock one ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens/can%e2%80%99t-sheet/ I agree with most people that the clothes in the movie Sex and the City are fabulous, but the bed linens are really boring. We get to see two sets of Carrie’s sheets. The first one, early in the movie, shows a plain white top sheet plain white with three lines ... http://thelinendoctor.com/luxury-linens-odds-and-ends/city-sheets/