Home, sweet home!

6. Boudoir

Romantic bedrooms are all about opulent splendour and sumptuous textures. Close the door, draw the silk curtains and another world awaits in surroundings punctuated by French antiques, sophisticated ornamentation and decadent detailing. Colour is a rich play of neutrals to offset the highlights of gold and bronze.

7. Diva

With its connotations of grandeur and sense of theatre, this style captures the essence of an era when bedrooms were the size of small apartments and their occupants would disappear behind closed doors with a stack of books and a bottle of vodka. This look is for those who love the elegance of European design and like sleeping in a four-poster-bed. Here, there is a careful layering of old and new with a French silkscreen tapestry behind an Indonesian teak bed a...

4. The Hip Hotel

Replicating at home the chic style of a ritzy city hotel room is a dream for many travellers. Tonal colour, crisp, white bedlinen, plump pillows, designer furniture and minimal pattern are what makes this style so desirable. Yet, dismiss all thoughts of this look if the kids and family pets treat your bedroom as their morning playroom.

5. Tropical Hideaway

A Japanese-inspired private retreat in the center of a lush tropical garden has immense appeal as the perfect escape route to relaxation. With this look, traditional Eastern cultural influences are reinterpreted for Western ideals. Fabric like ikat and batik are perfect for casual bedcovers, but the one requisite for comfort is the ubiquitous mosquito net.

The bedroom has no stereotype, which makes it by far the most interesting room to decorate. The bedroom does not have to echo the decorative style of any other space and, for most people, it satisfies an inherent longing for the one room you can decorate exclusively for personal pleasure. If you live in a family home, the main bedroom may be the only room where adults rule and kid’s toys and family clutter are banished. This is one room where you have a free hand to relax the rules; no copybook style but your own. Besides, the atmoshphere is more likely to appear authentic if it has subtly evolved over time.

Over the next several days we’ll list the eight most common bedroom themes, some of which you may like to consider:

1. The Art Gallery

Art is a way of making sense of the world and ...