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Bedroom buys and style tips

Country Living magazine brings you new and inspiring ways to design and decorate the bedroom.

Light and airy

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Country Living magazine brings you inspiring buys for creating a truly beautiful bedroom.

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Ceiling and walls in Brilliant White matt, £9.99/2.5 litres; panelling in Vanilla Mist 2 eggshell, £9.69/500ml; fireplace in Chiffon White 4 eggshell, £9.69/5 litres: all Dulux. Tosca bedstead, from £579, Feather & Black. Chest, antiques shop find; painted in Cameo Silk 2 eggshell, £9.69/500ml, Dulux. Similar laundry basket, £40, Next. Jennylund armchair and Blekinge cover, £116.47, Ikea. Antique ‘Ocean Wave\' quilt, £650, Tobias and the Angel.

Storage

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Make use of sloping ceilings to build \"hidden\" cupboards into wasted roof space. An ottoman, laundry basket or blanket box at the end of a bed will hold spare linen without taking up much floor space and doubles as a surface for breakfast trays.

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Chair and wardrobe, from a selection, Ann May Antiques. Inside: Basket, £55; towels, from £9 each; Lola robe (on door), £45: all The White Company. Patchwork quilt, £695, The Conran Shop. Vintage floral quilt, £220, Pimpernel & Partners. Abbeville wallpaper (on panels), £16/roll, Laura Ashley. On top: Paris Rose and French Check cushion covers, £40 each, Cabbages & Roses. Quilted cushion, £19, Zara Home.

Multi-purpose

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Choose elegant, small-scale furniture, that\'s welcoming and functional...

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Marble-top table and mirror, from a selection, Ann May Antiques. Antique chair, £75, Pimpernel & Partners. Ceramic lampbase, antiques shop find; shade, £69, Nordic Style. Picture frame, £30, The White Company; fabric (in frame) Country Rose Toile linen mix, £42/m, Jane Churchill.

Furniture

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Comfortable chairs make a bedroom a place to enjoy spending more time. Keep side furniture small and graceful, a console table or washstand with a mirror above may take up less room than a purpose-built dressing table.

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Lulworth chair, £435, OKA. Hemnes dressing table, £179, Ikea.

Bedroom cccessories

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These come into their own in the bedroom, where attractive containers are needed for everything from jewellery to make-up.

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Similar painted wooden coat rack, £201.50, Really Rural Inspirations. On shelf: Box file, £21, Cabbages & Roses. Boats, £9.95 each, Live Laugh Love. On pegs: Laundry bag, £30, Cabbages & Roses.