Category Archives: Pillow Protectors

Cleaning-Hacks-for-the-Bedroom

11 Spring Cleaning Hacks For The Bedroom

With the clocks going forward in a couple of weeks and spring in the air, now’s the time to give your bedroom a good thorough deep clean to keep it fresh, hygienic and help breathe new life into your room.

People often ask how often should you clean your bedroom and change the bedsheets?

Obviously, it’s entirely up to you but you should aim to change your bed linen once a week and give the room a good dust every fortnight.

Giving your bedroom a good deep clean though takes time, so once or twice a month will help keep dust mites at bay and keep your bed and room smelling fresher and clean.

Continue reading

Bedroom Spring Cleaning Hacks

Cleaning-Hacks-for-the-Bedroom

Whether you’re a die-hard Marie Kondo fan or a fully-fledged member of the ‘Hinch Army’, there’s definitely something about the clocks going forward that gives us the spring cleaning bug.

And where better to start your cleaning routine than the bedroom.

From freshening up the bedlinen to vacuuming the floor and airing the mattress, there are lots of ways to breathe new life into your room.

Continue reading

Seven Festive Tips to Prepare for Christmas Guests

Tips for Preparing for Christmas Guests

As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy preparing our homes for the festive season. From decorating the tree to organising the Christmas shop, the added pressure of holiday guests coming to stay can sometimes leave us a little overwhelmed.

To help take the stress out of the holiday season this year, we’ve prepared the following tips to make sure you don’t lose sleep over where everyone else is going to sleep this Christmas!

Continue reading

Essential Uni Starter Kit

Student Bedding Essentials

The wait is over and the results are in. The months (and years) of hard work and studying round the clock are a distant memory, albeit temporarily.

For those of you with children off to college and university, new beginnings and broader horizons await. And, of course, the day will arrive too when they’ll be leaving the family home behind.

As a local family business, we know that every penny counts when getting the kids university ready. Yes, we’ve been there and done that!

So, where do you start?  Never fear, at Dalzells we’ve put together our essential university bedding starter kit to help you on your way.

Continue reading

Tips for Buying a New Bed

How to keep cool on summer nights

With all this glorious sunshine, the feel good factor can be felt all around as people make the most of these balmy days with BBQs and soaking up the rays.

Of course, hot sunny days also mean hot sticky nights and – for many – disrupted sleep!

With the temperature to remain warm this week in Northern Ireland, it’s important to keep cool for a good night’s sleep.

Summer sleep tips

Follow the simple steps below to ensure you stay cool and comfortable and avoid a miserable and restless night in bed.

Continue reading

How to Prepare for Holiday Guests

Guest Beds at Dalzells

With the summer holidays now in full swing, many of us have visitors coming to stay. Of course, guests coming to visit also means we will be wondering how we are going to accommodate them.

At Dalzell’s, we like to take the stress out of welcoming your visitors. With a wide range of guest beds, folding beds, sofa beds and storage beds in-store, we’ll make sure you don’t lose sleep over where everyone else is going to sleep this holiday!

Continue reading

Summer Solstice Sleep Tips

Summer Solstice

People from all over the UK and Ireland rose early today to celebrate Summer Solstice. Celebrated for thousands of years, the longest day of the year is when we have the most sunlight and heralds the start of summer in the northern hemisphere.

With all this glorious sunshine the feel good factor can be felt all around as people make the most of these balmy days with BBQs and sun bathing aplenty. Of course, long hot days also mean hot sticky nights and, for many, disrupted sleep. So how can you get the most of the longest day, enjoy the sunshine and still get your sleep?

Continue reading

7 Tips to Spring Clean Your Bed

Is Your Bed Up To Scratch?

Now that spring has finally sprung many of us our turning our minds to cleaning the home. Our bedrooms in particular need a good deep down clean at this time of year. From freshening up our bed linen to airing the mattress there are lots of ways to breathe new life into the bedroom.

Continue reading

The Power of the Pillow

There’s been a lot of press coverage this week about the recently launched ‘Power Pillow’. The brainchild of a Canadian-based company, the pillow houses a 12000mAh lithium-polymer battery pack, with two USB ports to charge your phones, tablets or any USB device.  It promises to ‘… recharge your body, mind, phone and tablet all at the same time’. Genius idea or just bonkers, we’ll leave that up to you to decide, but it did get us thinking about the power of the pillow!

Continue reading

Preparing For Visitors This Festive Season

                                     

Guest Bed Solutions 

It’s that time of year when we are all refreshing our decor so our homes are looking at their best – from the annual winter clean, to a quick retouch of the paintwork, we’re also busying ourselves with putting the finishing touches to the festive decorations.

Continue reading