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It’s not just the room service: hotels are carefully designed to deliver luxury. Kya deLongchamps show you how they do it

THE great get away. A hotel suite delivers the functions of a small apartment — sleeping, working, relaxing, entertaining, storage, bathing and even dining. In terms of multi-tasking, every metre must work hard. Somehow even the most modest travel hotel gets it right more often than not, while the chaos of a standard family master at home plunges to the lows of a jaded kip.

Take more than a receipt away from that hotel stay, using our interior styling tips for home hospitality. Placement, symmetry, relaxing colour schemes and streamlined furniture: style tourism could shoot your bedroom up to a four star rating.