From Capri to Kenya, if I’ve learned anything from staying in some rather scenic locales, it’s that the secret to a more luxurious bedroom isn’t spending a mortgage on 100% mulberry silk fitted sheets, jacquard duvets, or velvet throw pillows. That hotel hero accessory is actually pretty basic.

Bed sheets with borders say ‘swanky’ without trying too hard to be fancy. Frette put the look on the map in 1899, dressing beds from the Paris Ritz to London’s Savoy in its now-iconic double-border linens. Since then, the fancy frame has found plenty of new addresses. Coastal-cool Serena & Lily has its signature Beach Club Border; Hommey dials the contrast up and down in no shortage of avant-garde color combinations (butter yellow and blue, anyone?); and GreenRow knew every sleepover would be sweeter with a scallop.

Be it a solid color or crawling vine, it’s amazing what one border can do. Ahead, 16 luxury sheet styles to extend the hotel stay indefinitely.

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