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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Sarah Spiteri

8 design rules for a tailored bedroom that feels timeless, stylish and serene – and the pitfalls experts say to watch for

Bedroom with blue washed walls a large dark green velvet headboard, a stone plinth as a bedside table and floral drapes.

How you dress yourself and how you dress your house are, for the most part, from different design worlds. Yet an increasing number of leading interior designers are applying an approach that has its heart in fashion to their schemes – and in no place is this more evident than the way we style our bedrooms.

Fashion is full of rules many people are often ignorant of – but still enjoy subconsciously. The way that slim and voluminous forms combine, the lines that are formed through hems and tailoring, making legs look longer; the visual weight that big prints, patterns, and stripes have on small frames.

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