We just made sure to leave the sheets wrinkly in the photos so we could always leave them wrinkly thereafter IRL. I’m not sure that an ironed-sheets type guest is who we are attracting anyway.
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Like others, I prefer 100% cotton percale - and they really do last forever! I have a few sets that are going on 3 years of very frequent use.
Sateen is sweaty and microfiber is even worse. Going to a bnb or hotel I would be super bummed having cotton blend or microfiber. (You get what you pay for I guess.)
I bought a set of white microfiber sheets for the rare times I have to make up the sofa in the room for a child or additional guest. I quit using them! They were super staticky out of the dryer and HAIR CLINGS to them. No thanks. They have been relegated to drop cloth use.
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LOL. The sheets aren’t visible in any of my photos. I think perfectly ironed sheets are so last century and not worth my time. And what I do leaves remarkably un wrinkled sheets. However, truth be told, getting wrinkles minimized is for me. I’m such a perfectionist (trying not to mis-use the term OCD) when it comes to the Airbnb room. I’ve been known to plug in the iron and use it on a few spots, particularly that top of the top sheet band that always wrinkles at the edge.
It’s also driving me nuts that the top gasket on the mini fridge has a split in it and I can’t figure out what to do about it. Years ago on a big fridge I installed new gaskets but I’m not seeing any way to do that on this mini fridge.
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Makes me nuts! Occasionally when I’m super motivated I’ll break out the hand steamer for that “problem area”. But generally? No.
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Well there’s that part that we fold down over the duvet and the pillowcases - not the whole sheet or anything 
Yes! That part! It used to bother me but we started making the bed a little different and you don’t see it much now.
But, I have a good trick for it that’s easier than an iron or steamer. This also works great for the plackets and collars on dress shirts. I got a good ceramic coated hair flat iron at a thrift shop and cleaned it up. I only use it for “ironing” so it stays clean. It heats up fast, has a really long cord, temperature control and is the perfect size for little problem areas.
What brand of mini fridge? I love a research project 
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It’s Haier HC278G42RW. Great to have some fresh eyes take a look.
I think what I wanted to do was take it off and just flip it upside down, assuming the bottom of the gasket wouldn’t be split. I thought it would have screws attaching it but it doesn’t. So if I can just pull it off without tearing up the gasket I could get double sided tape and stick it back on I think. But I’ve been hesitant to try for fear of messing up and having no fridge in there for guests. I should have worked on it while my friend was staying in there for 2 months but I didn’t and now here I am with the next two weekends booked on Airbnb.
But let me know if you find something definitive.
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Haha. Same here. I didn’t buy them, but someone insisted on giving them to me, as they were leaving town. They went straight into the drop-cloth bag.
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That’s pretty much my MO, too. I shake out the sheets when they come out of the washing machine, and they are line-dried. I run over them with the iron when they are on the bed- a trick I never would have though of had I not read it on a hosting forum, but it’s so much easier than trying to iron a huge expense of cloth on an ironing board.
And I don’t concern myself with them looking crisply ironed, I just try to get out the worst wrinkles and the top of the top sheets where it folds over the bedcover. Never had a guest complain yet, and many comment on how comfortable the bed is. I once mentioned to a guest after she arrived that I don’t iron the sheets and hoped that wasn’t an issue for her. Her reply was “Are you serious? I’ve never ironed a sheet in my life and wouldn’t expect anyone else to, either.”
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I agree with you about microfiber. In addition to the fact that it doesn’t “breathe,” I’m allergic to so many synthetics that I’d never buy microfiber anything.
My husband and I took an Amtrak trip a few years ago. We had a bedroom. The sheets were (thankfully) cotton but very thin. The blanket was microfiber. Even with a sheet between me and the blanket, I had an itchy, hive-filled night, until I found an extra sheet somewhere in our room. With two sheets, the blanket stopped driving me crazy. If we ever take another train trip, I’ll bring my own bedding.
Apparently cotton allergy is much less common than microfiber allergy. I wouldn’t run the risk of inflicting that on guests. That might be something @Mountainhost would want to consider.
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Crap. Back to the drawing board. I needed another set anyway.
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Found a long hair sticking to the microfiber sheet today and remembered your post. Lol. Have ordered some percale sheets and will transition over . Started getting the icky feeling that I am poisoning my guests with my sheets. Lol
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I highly recommend having a lint roller in your cleaning kit. Even after laundering I often find a hair stuck to some of the guest linens. No one wants to pull the sheet up to a good night’s sleep and see someone else’s hair. Microfiber are worse for this but sometimes the all cotton will have one as well.
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That is one reason that I like using colored linens. My heavy shedder dog is white (even though she doesn’t go in the guest space, all she has to do is walk by and her hair floats everywhere) and my hair is silver grey (I’m also a heavy shedder 
). All the hairs show up easily on the colored sheets. I’m sure if I used white linens, my guests would find hairs, both mine and my dog’s.
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I wanna be a heavy shedder, but then I’d be bald…sniff sniff… 
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LOL!!! I love your honesty.
@JJD My dream is to have cork floors someday, at least in the kitchen.
We’re just beginning this journey, & I love the idea of cork floors in the kitchen! Thanks.
It’s better to buy high quality used furniture than it is to buy cheap new furniture.
So, where do you go to find this high quality furniture for so little money?
We went to some estate sales and also shopped at second hand stores for our Claw foot oak wood table and buffet. We refurbished both of those pieces ourselves. They are solid heavy pieces, and it was a fun project for us.The table cost us 40 and the buffet cost us 60. We spent some money for the lacquer paint, and since hubby knows how to paint furniture, it was well worth the elbow grease we put into it. Both pieces can be repainted if they get damaged by guests in the future. You can also buy furniture and chalk paint it. That technique can be learned on utube, requires minimal tools, and can be done in a few hours. You can hardly mess this up. My sister does this and can flip a nice Piece of furniture for several hundred dollars with a 3 hour investment of her time. We went to letgo, Facebook, and craigslist for our used leather furniture. We looked at a lot of frogs before we found our prince.Take your time and look carefully at the pictures for fading, tears, rips etc…Do not accept anything with rips, tears, or discoloration. You can not fix these things, no matter what the seller says. Move on. Non smoking sellers only. We found a pristine full leather black couch for 250 dollars. Quality leather furniture new costs more than a grand and often way more. We found that you can get better quality at lower prices if you are willing to travel a little outside of the city. Phoenix is the closest big city to us so we looked at the surrounding towns like Anthem Queen Creek, Cave creek etc… Sadly some of the biggest house sales were people selling their furniture out of their furnished short term rental.Good luck!
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I concur on finding used furniture…if that’s of interest to you. Almost everything I owned at one point was used or part of my take from the divorce.
I got a Natuzzi leather sofa once for $500, similar sofas were at least $1000 new. It had some cat claw scratches on the back side but wouldn’t bother me since I knew it would soon have dog claw scratches. A few years ago I found a 4 drawer Danish modern bureau at Goodwill for $20. Mid cent modern/danish modern is not my thing but I knew to grab it. It only needed refinishing. I gave it away to a friend but in a city like PHX I could have flipped it for hundreds. There are always people who want to have the newest fashion and are getting rid of lightly used things.
Problem is the hunt is a very time consuming process that not everyone can enjoy.
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Great pointers, Amalia. Over the years we’ve bought most of our own furniture used (used to get great antiques that way), so it won’t bother me to do that while furnishing our new short term rentals. Still, those are really good prices you got for heavy furniture like that, and I’ll bet much of what you buy are antiques (?)
I appreciate the chalk paint idea, too. I’ve done my share of refinishing furniture in my younger days, and absolutely hate it, but with a husband who knows what he’s doing, I’d say you’re blessed. Recovering some furniture doesn’t bother me, though. It helps to have a good heavy duty sewing machine, especially for leather. But I’ve never tried chalk painting before. Sounds like a kinda shabby chic look? Plus, I never thought of looking on Facebook for sales. Have used C.L. a lot before, but how do you find things on F.B.?
Thanks for the ideas; much appreciated! 
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Type in “furniture for sale” on the search bar on facebook