Ways to Create a Five-Star Experience at Home

With a few simple tricks, you can create your very own sanctuary of comfort and opulence right at home. Here are four secrets to crafting a five-star experience that will leave you feeling pampered and delighted every day.

1. Invest in High-Quality 100% Cotton Bed Linens

When it comes to crafting a five-star home experience, nothing sets the foundation quite like the comfort and opulence of high-quality bed linens. We take pride in providing exquisite luxury linens that can be found in the finest luxury boutique hotels throughout the United States. Bellino linens range from a luxurious 200 to an exquisite 600 thread count, boasting a selection of sumptuous sateen and percale fabrics.

RECOMMENDED LINENS:

Manhattan Percale

from $36.00

Raso : Sateen : Sheets and Pillowcases

from $90.00

2. Set Up a Spa-Like Atmosphere

Enhance your five-star experience by setting up a spa-like atmosphere in your bathroom. Incorporate scented candles, soothing music, and dimmable lighting to create a relaxing ambiance during your bath or shower time. With the addition of Bellino plush towels and Double Touch Bath Robe, you'll feel like you've stepped into a luxurious spa right at home.

RECOMMENDED TOWELS: 

Villa : Towels

from $4.50

Luxor Towels

from $3.40

3. Scented Linen Spray

Immerse yourself in a tranquil oasis of pure relaxation by delicately infusing your bed linens and towels with the captivating scents of linen sprays. Select from a range of calming aromas like soothing lavender, chamomile, or eucalyptus, each thoughtfully chosen to transport you to a state of deep unwinding.

4. Pillow Inserts

Invest in premium pillow inserts for your decorative pillows. High-quality inserts not only provide better support but also maintain their shape and loft, giving your bed a fuller and more luxurious appearance. You can purchase the very same luxurious pillows and duvet insert we supply to the finest luxury boutique hotels throughout the United States below.

RECOMMENDED INSERTS: 

PILLOWS and DUVET INSERTS

from $23.00

You can take your five-star home experience to new heights with luxurious linens and towels. By investing in high-quality materials, adding personal touches, and creating a spa-like atmosphere, you can transform your living space into a haven of comfort and relaxation.

This year the “Hamptons Holiday House Design Show” has gone virtual

The Hamptons Holiday House Design Show has a gorgeous digital experience this year. Bellino is featured in Amy Lau’s sumptuous and fresh bedroom design. Her aesthetic is one of our favorites. This year’s bedroom design features cool heavenly blues, calming neutrals, and custom Bellino Fine Linens bedding. Check out the entire show and digital publication here.

How to Care for Your Bedsheets

Lucky for us all, we no longer have to wash our clothes and bed sheets in the nearest stream or river beating the dirt out of them on rocks. Nor do we have to soak them overnight and then soap, boil, scald, rinse, wring out, mangle (hand cranked), dry, starch and iron, repeating these steps up to three times to get the job done. Phew! Thankfully today we have the modern-day washing machine and dryer to do most of the work!

What’s not to love about slipping into a bed with crisp, fine and freshly laundered sheets? The bed is our place to rest, relax, renew and heal. Make sure you care for your bedroom sanctuary and give it the attention it deserves. As part of that consideration you can protect your investment in fine linens with proper care.

Remember to always wash your new set of sheets before use. This first wash is essential for setting the threads, which will protect the fabric’s beauty and extend its life.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU WASH YOUR SHEETS?

Remember to always wash your new set of sheets before use. This first wash is essential for setting the threads, which will protect the fabric’s beauty and extend its life.

Regular washing is a must and we recommend you change your bedsheets and launder them once a week. It is good practice to have multiple sets of sheets for one bed, we recommend a total of at least three. This allows for one set on the bed, one in the linen closet and one is typically waiting to be laundered or in the wash. By rotating your sets, they will last longer and you will always have a clean set ready to go on the bed!

CARING FOR YOUR LINENS IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK

Less is more.

Do not overload the machine, leave room for the sheets to circulate in the water, they will get cleaner.  Wash your sheets separately from towels and other clothing. Garments made of polyester, and items made of heavy material or rivets, buttons, zippers, and other hardware can damage fibers and fabric.

Forget the fabric softener and forget the bleach, we discourage the use of both. Bleach will weaken fibers and cause yellowing and fabric softeners make fibers appear soft by coating them, but eventually cause damage over time. Your luxury linens will soften naturally with repeated use and regular washings.

Cool or warm water is enough and gentle or normal cycle is fine and don’t forget to wash dark and light colors separately.

All that is required is a mild detergent that does not contain any bleaching agents such as chlorine or peroxide, and never pour the detergent directly onto fabric. Instead, add your linens (fully unfolded) to the tub after it fills and the detergent has already been diluted in the water. Pre-treat any stains before you wash.

Remove your linens from the washing machine as soon as the cycle is over to reduce wrinkles, shake the sheets out and smooth out wrinkles as much as possible before putting them into the dryer or hanging them to dry. Hanging them to dry is preferable but not in direct sunlight.

Most people use the dryer which is fine too but don’t mix in other items – dry linens by themselves. Use the lowest heat setting possible and remove promptly smoothing out any wrinkles with your hands and fold them.

If you love a crisp pristine bed remove the linens from the dryer when they are still ever so slightly damp (about 10 minutes before the cycle ends) and iron your sheets.

STORING YOUR FRESHLY LAUNDERED LINENS

A great space saving way to store matching linens is to use one of the pillowcases to stash the sheet set. Simply put the folded sheet set inside one of its matching pillowcases, along with the second pillowcase. Or place the folded fitted sheet and pillowcases inside the folded flat sheet right before its last fold. Either way also works well for putting away sheets in linen closets or bedroom closets.

Don’t store them inside plastic, you want to store them in something that allows them to breathe.

Use your favorite scented sachet in the closet to keep things smelling fresh and lovely!  

Wear a Mask. Respect Others. Spread Love. Bellino in La Voce di New York

We are honored that Emmlena De Feo wrote about our efforts to help distribute masks to people who need them so all that what we spread in New York are respect and love. Emmilina sat down with our VP of Sales and Marketing, Maurizio Bussolari to discuss the campaign and who benefits. In summary, when our hotel clients closed down at the beginning of the pandemic, we had to think differently. She reviews our efforts to support artisans in northern and southern Italy, ReThink Food, and the Sydell Group’s employee relief fund.

NEW: We recently added the Loveland Foundation to our summer: Shop | Save | Give campaign.

Join US!

Please join us for a very special event with actress and artist KELLY RUTHERFORD 

Kelly will talk about LOVE, kindness, gratitude, self appreciation, healing………..and host a surprise BELLINO giveaway!

Face masks and the materials that can be used to make them...

In an article written by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times published April 21,2020 some relevant and useful information was shared. It revealed that fabrics used to manufacture sheets and pillowcases are very efficient in filtering large and small viral particles. In response to the pandemic we have produced face masks using 2 layers of our much loved, crisp 200TC 100% cotton percale, the very same we use for our bed linens. The fabric has been treated with a water repellent and antibacterial treatment. It is reusable and can be washed at 140 degrees with detergent which may contain bleach. As responsible citizens it is our duty to protect those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19 as well as ourselves by wearing a face mask in public and practicing social distancing until it is safe to return to normal activity. We have made them available for sale to the general public. Click here to purchase yours!

Bellino Fine Linens 200TC Percale Face Mask

“Pillow cases and sheets: Smart Air tested 100 percent cotton, 120-thread-count sheets, and found the material filtered 90 percent of large particles and 24 percent of small particles. In the 2013 study, two layers of pillow case fabric tested close to the efficiency of a surgical mask for large particles. The Missouri scientists reported that four layers of 600-thread-count pillow case material achieved the filtration protection of a surgical mask.”

Thread Count – Don't Count on It

Close your eyes!

Now, imagine you are slipping into clean, soft, comforting, supple and luxurious bed sheets. Were you counting while you were doing that? We hope not, because Bellino would like you to focus more on what you can actually count on; the quality and hand of the product.

This is what distinguishes our product from the rest.

Thread count is only one part of creating a fine fabric used for sheeting. There are other important factors that need to be considered when shopping for your bedding, and thread count is probably the last. We want to put you in control and inform you of the more important aspects necessary in creating a fine textile for sheeting, which are the fibers used to weave the fabric and the processes utilized to finish it. This is what distinguishes our product from the rest.

Do not let anyone tell you what to choose, what you sleep on is highly personal

We want to encourage you to choose your linens based on your personal preferences. Do you like percale or sateen – what you choose will make all the difference to you when you retreat to your bedroom sanctuary for rest and relaxation. Sateen is smooth, lustrous, and slightly thicker and more tightly woven suited to cooler weather, while percale is soft, crisp, breathable, and perfect for every day of the year but especially during the warmer weather. But do not let anyone tell you what to choose, what you sleep on is highly personal and a very important investment since you spend over three quarters of your life in bed. Choose with your senses and let us worry about the rest, we will take care of providing you with the best quality product at the most competitive price.

A fabric with a thread count, of 200 high-quality fibers can have a better hand, or feeling to the touch, than a thread count, of 400 inferior quality fibers

Bellino has been partnering for decades with the top European dying factory located near our factories in Italy. They finish our fabrics and the ones of other prestigious international brands. They singe and mercerize our fabrics which are vital processes needed to create a smooth high-quality fabric that will not pill or fade. Thread count is simply the number of threads per square inch of fabric. These consist of vertical threads (warp) and horizontal threads (weft) woven together. A fabric with a thread count, of 200 high-quality fibers can have a better hand, or feeling to the touch, than a thread count, of 400 inferior quality fibers. We want you to know that we weave our fabrics using long staple cotton, using single ply yarns and have a single pick in the weft of the fabric. Finally, our fabrics are finished in Italy using a process developed over generations and considered an art form. This entire process yields high quality fabrics, some sateen and some percale in varying thread counts that Bellino transforms into modern and classic bed linens for your home.

This you can count on!

"Ridiculously Luxurious Linens" for 25 Years

Taylor Davies included Bellino in her top 5 review of splurge-worthy luxury bedding written for “The Spruce”. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Taylor. More about her top picks here.

Vegas Baby!

NoMad Las Vegas opened its doors on October 12 and we’re not sure who’s more excited about it - our friends at NoMad? or the team at Bellino.

The hotel is reportedly the coolest hotel in town. It sits atop the Park MGM and features some of their standards (pedestal tubs, Bellino Fine Linens, and leather headboards) but also features a new casino and 2 glorious restaurants run by Daniel Humm and Will Guidara.

The stunning and historic Tiffany Glass ceiling was orignial to the Monte Carlo and tops the gaming floor which is reminiscent of the most glamorous European casinos.

The Comfiest Bed EVER - Proper San Francisco

“This was one of the most, if not the most, comfortable hotel beds I’ve ever slept in.”

The Points Guy recently stayed at one of our favorite places: Proper Hotel in San Francisco. This hotel is chic, gorgeous, and comfortable nestled in a neighborhood that isn’t touristy so guests get a better feel for life in San Francisco.

Of course don’t take our word for it:

“The San Francisco Proper Hotel is a cool new addition to the San Francisco hotel scene. I liked the quirky décor, the in-room amenities, and especially that bed.”

You can find the full article HERE.

Duck Bacon + Bellino Sheets? Yes Please! | Proper San Francisco

This mouth watering article by 7x7 by Marie Salcido highlights one of our favorite places in San Francisco. The Proper hotel pays painstaking attention to detail from their unique decor by Kelly Wearstler - to the gastronomic expertise in their restaurants - to their yummy Bellino bedding.

"We outfitted the guest rooms at San Francisco Proper with our favorite things... items that we ourselves would want to have in order to make our own stay most enjoyable," said Brian De Lowe, Co-Founder, and President of Proper Hospitality.

Among those favorite things? Plush California-made mattresses from Aireloom and silky-soft bed linens from Italian textile manufacturer Bellino keep things extra cozy." 

Did we mention that you can order room service from an app on your phone? Duck Bacon and craft cocktails whilst lounging in your bed by Bellino? Why would you ever leave your room? 

Our friends at Proper Hospitality are among the best in the business and we're proud that they chose Bellino.

Italia! & the NoMad Los Angeles

The setting for NoMad Los Angeles was formerly the bank of Italy. The hotelier preserved the building's unique history as they left the massive bank vault and framed many of the treasures that the bank once held. "The curated art collection includes vintage photos, maps, ephemera, and art pieces that help tell their story connecting California to Italy."  In the article from Cool Hunting, Julie Wolfson outlines the attention to detail and curation of fine art and photography that celebrates the connection of southern California to our beloved Italy.

Of course, we're proud to be a partner of the NoMad family of hotels as we share their desire to connect guests to the artisanal luxury of our homeland.

Sustainable Luxury at Casa Violeta in Tulum Mexico

We love Karla Gutierrez and her vision for Casa Violeta in Tulum, Mexico. Hers is a special place that marries sustainable luxury and food for the soul. Casa Violeta is a sanctuary of local art, history, and the natural energy that is at the heart of Tulum. 

From the article in Condé Nast Traveler, "Nature is a theme at Casa Violeta, but guests won’t lack for luxuries. Bellino Italian fine linens dress the beds and there are organic amenities, by Gilchrist & Soames in the bathrooms."

When Karla started her business she carved it from nothing but a love of the land and a vision for what it could become to the loyal clientele they've nurtured over the past 15 years. We respect her approach to business and are proud to be her partner.

Bellino & Proper San Francisco | Condé Nast Traveler

In their review of hip new Proper Hotel in San Francisco Condé Nast Traveler reviewer and travel goddess, Elise Craig gave some love to the crisp luxury of Bellino Fine Linens.

We adore the Proper and hope their guests adore Bellino.  We're quickly becoming the preferred bedding of boutique hotels around the world for our bedding value and artisan luxury but don't take our word for it:

"Guests in beds of all sizes sleep in California Aireloom king mattresses tucked in crisp Italian Bellino Fine Linens, topped with down comforters and striped Kelly Wearstler cotton blankets; the comfort factor is dialed way up."

We absolutely love our boutique hotel clients and know our consumers will too. 

Follow Maurizio!

Our resident hotel wanderer (+ head of sales and marketing), Maurizio Bussolari is now a contributor on A Hotel Life.  Follow him as he chronicles his travels around the United States and the World. 

He can also be found on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/mauriziobusso

Bellino in Departures International

Thanks so much to Departures for including us in your review of the Best Boutique Hotels in San Francisco. We're honored to be chosen by Proper Hotel to be a part of their impeccable detailed design as the supplier of their luxury bedding. Bellino Fine Italian Linens supplies fine residences, designers, and luxury hotels with high-quality bed and bath linens. 

BELLINO in Vogue

BELLINO Fine Linens on VOGUE magazine April 2014. Designer Celerie Kemble has fashioned herself a Family Home-Meets-Beachside Colony along a wild stretch of coast in the Dominican Republic. This Vogue Article goes on to review the 24 most beautiful bedrooms from Vogue's Living book and we're so proud that Ms. Kemble chose Bellino as part of her gorgeous space.