The transformation of three bedrooms

Is your bedroom is boring you to sleep?

What about taking a more characterful approach?

Using some simple visualisation, a few new buys, and plenty of second-hand wit, anyone can style up something more stirring to the senses.

The bedroom is the most sensual room in the house, so consider the warmth of atmosphere, that spine tingling feel to the touch and proceed from there

Boho

If you’re a fashion follower panting for the latest look, you know that 1970s inspired folksy fun has boogied down from the design houses to the high street this season.

It’s an irreverent nod to the bell-bottom wearing, architecturally daring darlings of London, Berlin and New York where movers and shakers were reinterpreting the tired styling of a post war generation. It speaks of travel to exotic places (but wearing a rucksack rather than a safari suit) psychedelic art, peace, love, environmental awareness and ultimate comfort all over your pad.

This hippy chic slouch demands determined colour, but you can let it all hang out with accessorising rather than covering every wall. IKEA have never really departed from their Boho ’70s roots and many current designers such as Clickity are clearly still tickled by it. Shopping second-hand and exploring in the tribal goods of everywhere from Oxfam shops to Indian and Far Eastern specialists, you’ll find highly authentic bling in applied mirror work, leather footstools, chunky embroidered throws and more.

Colour wise look out for blue-based greens, custard yellows and hot pinks for an uplifting young room to let it all hang out.

Faded Gentility

Imagine yourself hugged to the ample bosom of a favourite aged aunt drowning in rose water.

Aged-A is safe, homely, gloriously old fashioned. Everything about her has a warm familiarity.

Vintage style surroundings rely on the idea of naturally accruing layers of family history with a gentle scrub of character to their surface.

Celebrate the look of honest materials, 100% cottons, fat feather pillows, real wood, period shapes and classic colours.

Show your softer side with putty shaded dressings in blues, pinks and greys set over white walls and painted white flooring.

A fat Flocati rug will drown the toes every morning on stepping out of bed. Fake the glory of heavily carved wood in resin frames in gilded disguise.

Lovely upholstered chairs in French boudoir style, ideal for injecting some antique romance are everywhere this season.

Pneumatic Rococo mirrors really set the scene and increase visual space. Vintage linen, French or Irish can be found online and keep an eye out at antique fairs here and in the UK for specialist dealers in beautifully embroidered pieces. Go for thickly veneered free standing storage over sprayed MDF. Be aware when buying an old iron bed that the irons forming the side frames should be original and mattress sizing may be off-standard.

Executive Suite

The Feel: Remember the sleek, indulgent experience of the last really nice hotel you ever stayed in?

Seamless storage, the surroundings friendly but formal, contemporary— flat sheets snapped to attention.

If this room was 007, he would be more Pierce Brosnan that Daniel Craig— the ultimate sophisticate with an intimate charm.

Built-in wardrobes, barely rippling that wall with their presence, invoke calm.

If beiges and browns depress, go to an urban sophisticated grey or as deep as a chalkboard black and lift with dark papers with a metallic print, gem coloured glass in light fittings, and accent pops of colour pared to the minimum. Ditch the duvet set. To tailor an already comfortable bed, go for a 300 thread count in white Egyptian cotton flat sheets — it is soft, fresh and luxurious against any wall and bed dressings. Detail the room with plush, indulgent accessories bought on the cheap, including heavy, lined curtains. The lighting design will be deliberately flattering to you, your partner and inclusions that are more Comfort Inn than Ritz Carlton.

Oversized wall art from one of your own digital photographs can be used as a head board for the truly brave. Add an iconic coffee machine for Sunday morning espressos. You’re worth it.