The Emotional Effect Behind the Room Colors of Your Property

An often unwritten and overlooked skill for being an innkeeper or host is creativity.  Property managers need to be able to envision the design of all different kinds of rooms when opening a property or renovating an already existing property.  There are many furniture options to choose from, bedding linens to select, amenities needed to supply a property, and colors needed to design each room on the walls, ceilings, and floors.  The color of a room dictates what kind of moods your guests will develop.  Certain colors are more common in specific types of rooms, but the color you choose for your rooms can impact the atmosphere for your guest experience.  This blog will explain what different colors can represent, the mood they project, and which types of colors work best for different types of rooms.

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The Role of the Terry Towel for the Hospitality Industry

Towels are arguably the most important linen to a property manager that doesn’t belong on the bed.  Finding the right towel for your property doesn’t have to be difficult.  There is a wide selection of towels to choose from to best fit the needs of your property.  There is quite an extensive process involved in making high-quality towels.  One of the most common construction designs of a towel is with terry fabric.  This blog will explain what a terry towel is, how it is made, and how to properly care for towels.

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When is It Time to Replace Your Bedding?

Often, property managers think of the bedroom as to where their housekeeping staff spends a large portion of their time cleaning and maintaining. Think about how much work is involved with cleaning out a bedroom between each guest stay. The bedding is laundered, bathrooms are cleaned, trash gets emptied, floors are vacuumed, and furniture gets dusted or sanitized. Sheets, blankets, pillows, duvet covers, and comforters are just a few of the many types of bedding that you might offer that needs to get laundered. With this process occurring so frequently, have you pondered how long each piece of bedding should last? This blog will explain when a property should replace its bedding.

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Advantages to Using Alcohol-Free Make-up Remover Wipes

If you’ve ever wondered if make up removers that are alcohol free really make a difference in your skin or if you should consider this option than keep reading.  This blog will explain the benefits of using alcohol-free make-up remover wipes and some important steps to follow when using make-up remover wipes.

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Important and Often Overlooked Bathroom Accessories

When thinking of rooms that are most likely to be remembered, most guests would probably say their bedrooms, the dining room, or maybe a room with a pool or spa.  Most property managers will spend the majority of their time making sure the more desirable rooms look as nice as possible. Bathrooms may not bring much excitement to people, but one thing that is certain is that your guests will be using it.  It is important to not forget about essential accessories that guests will appreciate in a bathroom.

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Care and Cleaning of Pool Towels

Pool towels are exposed to a wide range of substances and liquids like sand, salt water, chlorine, sunscreen, sweat, and grass.  Sand can get caught in the pool towels, and grass and other liquids like spilled drinks can cause stains.  That is why the pool towel laundering process is so important. This blog will explain the proper steps to launder pool towels and the impact chlorine can have on the quality and durability of them. The following is a list of steps to properly wash pool towels.

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Go Green with InnStyle

Many people would identify spring as their favorite season of the year.  Earth Day is a spring holiday which helps promote awareness about the environment and how people can help protect it.  Hospitality manufacturers and other companies have increased sustainability and environmental measures over the years with many organic linens and other green products now being widely available.  This blog will highlight some of the different types of green bedding products InnStyle offers and how the material in these products benefits the environment.  This blog will also raise awareness about the importance of cutting back on packaging to reduce pollution.

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Benefits of Triple Sheeting

There are lots of options for the top of the bed that property managers can choose to showcase at their properties.  It is nice to have so many choices but having such a wide selection can make the process more difficult.  Popular top of the bed options include comforters, duvet covers, blankets, coverlets, bedspreads, and top sheets.  Each of these bed linens has their own benefits, but this blog will focus on the benefits that top sheets can provide for a property.  Top sheets and triple sheeting are a great option for easy cleaning, they are an excellent choice of bedding for warm weather, and they provide great value for the cost of the actual product.

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Hospitality Industry Returning to Normal

It’s been a little over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began.  Lots of change has occurred in many different industries since that time and hospitality is no exception.  People stopped traveling as frequently, didn’t go out to restaurants, and many large events like concerts and sports games were cancelled.  With vaccines getting distributed, it looks like life is slowly beginning to return to normal.  This is great news for property managers, innkeepers, and others working in the hotel, lodging, and rental property section of the hospitality industry.  With so many people choosing to not take a vacation over the past year, many experts are predicting a large volume of guests to be booking reservations at properties this coming summer.  This blog will explain how travel and guest stays are returning to normal, the emergence of short-term rental properties, and how a new demand for other types of businesses will form.

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Separating Sheets Made Easy

Your housekeeping staff is extremely busy cleaning every room between each guest stay.  They know it’s important to make sure the guests feel like they are staying in a clean, fresh space and that is what makes the role of the housekeeping staff so valuable.  There are many ways to help speed up the cleaning process.  One of which is having labels to identify the sheet size as they are coming out of the laundry.  Sheets are often the same color, and they usually all have a similar design making them hard to separate.  Sheets having easy size identifiers can help with the process of making sure the right size sheets go to the right beds.  This will save your housekeeping staff valuable time and allow them to be more efficient.  This blog will focus on ways to identify sheet sizes quickly and easily.

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