Home pamperers, your chariot awaits. As soon as I entered Haverford’s Nancy Koltes at Home — the few-months-old light and airy showroom of high-quality, Italian-crafted linens and sweet goodies like tableware, candles and even men’s boxers and comfy loungewear for gals — worries about thread count numbers dissolved. I was immediately encouraged to throw around pillow samples (the clever way they show the lines’ colors and patterns) in an effort to mix and match my way to the bed dressing of my dreams.

Beyond the sheets, there was enough to bedeck an entire home with a thoroughly inviting, romantic-without-being-cloying style that made me recall a party I once attended in the suburbs of Paris where an evening of too much red wine, chocolate, bread and cheese was adieu’d with a spread of fizzy water and clementines.

Outposts of the first-in-New-York life-wares store have been popping up nationwide, from Charleston to Beverly Hills, but we got lucky because linens designer and founder Koltes (who has been selling her chic sheet sets for over 20 years through other retail outlets) hails from Chestnut Hill and wanted to see a signature shop installed in her old stomping environs.

379 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, 610-645-6030, nancykoltesathome.com.

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Posted by Janine White on 2/21/08 in Home