How to find luxury sheets for less

June 29, 2024 Janet Lorusso

I’ve written about my obsession with luxury sheets before. I am very much a sheet snob…

I started as a young adult with my first set of “good” sheets which were from Charisma and which I discovered sleeping in a bed made up with the most glorious bedding at an inn on Nantucket. I immediately came home and ordered a set of their classic dot pattern. I loved those sheets and they lasted for eons. .

Then I moved on to my new love, Peacock Alley. I bought the most beautiful sheets I had every seen - be still my heart…silky, heavyweight, Peacock Alley sateen cotton sheets with robin’s egg blue embroidery in a scalloped pattern at a {now defunct} discount store called Tuesday Morning - I think the pattern had been discontinued by the company.

I used those Peacock Alley sheets constantly for probably 20 years - I’d wash them and put them right back on the bed.

At some point in there I managed to accidentally wash them with a terra cotta colored rag rug that was lurking undetected in the washer and bled orange dye all over them. I cried. They were never really the same after that. A lot of manipulation to try and remove the unwanted color hastened their demise and eventually they fell apart. Sadly, they don’t make that pattern anymore.

I replaced them with some scalloped edge ones from Crane and Canopy that are nice quality and very pretty, though the edges really should be ironed so the scallops show off to their best advantage, and one of the pillowcases has gone missing…I have NO IDEA why or how - it’s far too big for the same fate as the socks the washer seems to eat.

Good quality sheets are expensive and buying another pair of those pillowcases will cost me $100+ 😭.

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I was recently introduced to the company Quince, who’s claim to fame is that they offer luxury for less, which is always an appealing thought. The claim is that they are able to do this by

partnering with ethically run factories with sustainable, transparent processes and

shipping direct from those factories eliminating a layer of middlemen.

I’d been eyeing some of their clothing and noticed they also carried bedding. I was curious to see how their sheets stacked up.

They graciously offered to gift me a sample, which turned out to be a complete set of their luxury cotton sateen sheets. Their biggest sellers are apparently the linen and bamboo options, but I am a sucker for sateen…

The sheet set arrived almost immediately and came packaged in a cute drawstring bag made of sheeting material…which I forgot to take a photo of. You could even use the bag to store your sheet set - which would be brilliant - I wish I’d thought of it before I discarded it!

To the touch, right out of the package, they have that buttery soft feel I was looking for.

They are woven of the finest long staple organic cotton, fashioned using windmill powered green energy, and are OEKO-TEX certified meaning they are finished without toxins or harmful chemicals. That makes them good from any standpoint!

Like their pricier cousins, they are generously sized and include quality details like 16” deep fitted sheets with full elastic hems.

Brilliantly, the fitted sheets are marked with tabs labeling the top/bottom ends so you never have to divine which orientation is correct, and the pillowcases have the inner flap to hold the pillow in place.

While they do have some options, they do not have nearly the variety of pretty embroidery options and colors or edge details offered at Crane and Canopy or Peacock Alley. BUT, they are markedly less expensive for similar quality sheeting making them an excellent value. For this price, I could always send them out for monogramming and still come out way ahead…hmmmm.

They also offer an even less expensive fitted set, which includes the fitted sheet and pillowcases but no top sheet, for those of you who make a European style bed with a duvet rather than a top sheet and coverlet or blanket.

I’ll be back here with an update after I’ve laundered them to see how they fare, but I think I’m definitely going to be ordering a set for the guest room bed before my next guest arrives!

Check them out here: Quince bedding