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Here, we’ve put library lights on either side of the bookcase and created a window seat, which is a good place to keep spare blankets. The walls of bedrooms can often be quite bland, so adding joinery adds atmosphere (as well as being a clever way of disguising any boxed-in piping). With bedside furniture, I recommend going as big as the room will allow as it affords more room for a lamp, books and a carafe of water – often, these are a tight squeeze on smaller bedside tables.īookshelves in bedrooms add both character and colour and are a nice way of providing a cosy corner – especially in this room, which is large, so we wanted to make it feel a bit smaller and more intimate.

On either side of this bed are two really large chests of drawers from Chelsea Textiles that are ideal for rooms in which storage is limited. Here, we’ve used a plain, double-width linen (good for walls as there are fewer seams) by Hesse & Company and trimmed it with double piping around the edge of the room. Wallsįabric brings a softness to the bedroom and acts as a good sound absorber, which is especially important in a spare bedroom, so guests feel as if they have a bit of privacy.

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It’s a good technique to give the impression that the windows are larger and grander. To counterbalance this, we’ve hung the pelmet and blind for the small window at ceiling height to cover what’s called the ‘dead light’ – that is, the wall between the top of the window and the ceiling.

The window sizes presented something of a challenge in this room at one end are French windows leading out to a balcony, but the standard windows are rather low and small.

The interior of the half-tester is a bespoke fabric by Bernard Thorp.

Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardenersĪs a result, we’ve focused on creating interest out of details such as the subtle ivory-Ĭoloured embroidery on the pelmets and down the leading edge of the curtains, which are in a lovely linen by Victoria Bain that contrasts well with the raspberry-pink velvet on the sofa.

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