You always start the day so well in a hotel. A freshly brewed cappuccino... You miss that all too often at home. At Barts Boekje we are not (really) baristas. We're not even close. But what everyone wants is a really good container, even when you're at home. In comes the Siemens EQ.9 Plus, a fully automatic espresso machine that is unprecedented (really). After a (hellish) search, it turned out to be the very best of its kind. Are you reading along? Because with this (good looking!) fully automatic espresso machine, Bart's bakkies are top-notch these days barista-proof. The tastiest coffees, with and without milk. Just get the right coffee beans and you are good to go.

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What also makes a hotel so nice is that you go there after your dinner or around the end of the afternoon (we won't judge if it is earlier in the day) you can sit at the bar. Order a cocktail or a nice glass of bubbles and your hotel experience will be more than complete.

You can just start your own bar at home. Please read along. That's how you make yourself own cocktails. These are the tastiest red wines, Would you rather have a glass of bubbles? Then you should take a look here…You must have Bart's (magnum) Bubbels, or or or, alcohol free, also tasty. Well, you understand, you don't need a hotel for that at all.

Good morning sun! How a lucky bastards are we that the sun is doing its best for us in any case? A present. Especially when you have the day calm and easy start up. Start on a positive note. Of course that includes breakfast in bed! And really, it doesn't have to be a Sunday for that (series, who knows what day we live in now?!) It doesn't matter, you can do your own room service every day. Bee Persijn, the restaurant in it QO Hotel in Amsterdam, you wake up with a verse takeaways breakfast, and it's easy to imitate. Bread basket here, let's boil an egg, yogurt with some fruit there and back into the nest. Whoa. Back for a moment. Because it only works if it is presented on a nicely laid out platter. Linen napkins, your most beautiful tableware and a carafe filled with fresh orange juice. Oui oui hotel chic.

Tip: we have a stack of cheese boards HKliving in the house, they work TOP for this. Linen napkins from H&M Hotel, tableware from Dill & Chamomile

We have written about the importance of a comfortable bed before. Who knows, you may have seen it on the well-known site instagram pass by: when we suddenly stayed at home much more and therefore stayed indoors and also bought a new house (Maartje talking here), it was high time we got rid of the bed we've had for a few years. And with (almost) 40 years on the counter, it was also high time for a really grown-up bed. One that will last at least ten years.
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And a nice bed also includes nice bedding. And yet, like a good bed, it is often forgotten. And yet we spend so much of our time in bed (we do). We already wrote a list about our favorites sustainable linen duvets, and that story still stands as a rock. But we have something to add to that. This selection of beautiful brands, all timeless and high-quality. And they sleep wonderfully, I promise.