Amanda Holden's maximalist guest bedroom uses this smart decorating trick to make it look bigger – it embraces the awkward angles of a dormer ceiling

A bedroom with grey panelled walls, a wooden bedframe with burgundy and white bedding on top, and a grey and white botanical print wallpaper behind the bed.

As those of us blessed with a small bedroom know only too well, it takes every trick in the book to make a compact bedroom look bigger.

This is especially true if, like me, your bedroom is also a dormer bedroom that has a low, sloping ceiling to contend with.