Bedroom design ideas - in pictures

This bedroom is painted a dark grey ( Steel Symphony from Dulux ), offset by a white-painted wood sideboard. The bedside lamps are Anglepoise ( anglepoise.com ) and the mustard leather reclining chair is a vintage Guy Rogers. Photograph: Lee Garland for the Guardian For similar industrial lights, try Pedlars or check out Davy Lighting , which also sells connecting pipe work for the 'disused factory' vibe. For slate grey shagpile carpet, take a look at Abbey Carpets . For plain sheets and curtains in a range of colours, La Redoute is your friend. Photograph: Rachael Smith If you can't stretch to laying a fresh wood floor like this one, then paint your floorboards white to get the minimalist look. Farrow & Ball sells every shade of white in floor paint . Those half cupboards under the eaves provide useful surfaces. for high quality fresh white bed linen, try The White Company. Photograph: Cristina Olsen A framed movie poster adds to the vintage feel of this bedroom - try atthemovies.co.uk for originals. Photograph: Henri Kyriacou This bedroom is feminine with a touch of the 1920s and 30s. Bird in the Bush wallpaper , by Anna French, £87.62 per roll at Wallpaper Direct. Silver side lamps, £35, Ikea . For similar bedside tables, try Ikea's white pedestal table, £16, Ikea , or Artisanti's aluminium pedestal table, £143. Photograph: Carole King Photograph: Carole King Laura Ashley has a silky throw in dusty colours like the one above. Scaramanga has distressed metal trunk for the beaten up look. This stainless steel Deco bed cost about a tenner at a flea market – try Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Racecourse. Photograph: Rachael Smith This vintage look is all about the clutter. For antique furniture like this try sellingantiques.co.uk . The walls are painted Farrow & Ball's Sand, to give the tobacco-aged feel. Graham & Green sells gilt mirrors; and for vintage suitcases, try scaramangashop.co.uk . French Finds sells antique upholstered beds like this one. Photograph: Rachael Smith Photograph: Action images This gold wall sticker is from Ivy Bespoke , the bed is from Habitat, the cushions are made from sari fabric bought in Madras, while the bedside drawers are available from Holly's House . Photograph: Rachael Smith This bedroom would be quite ordinary were it not for that extraordinary ceiling height and the folding doors which give directly out to a courtyard. Consider french windows in the bedroom, even if they lead nowhere, for example to a Juliette balcony - they can really add impact. Click here for some ideas. Photograph: Jefferson Smith In this bedroom, the lavender-coloured bedlinen picks out the shade in the original parquet flooring. Your best bet for the widest range of plain, coloured bed linen is La Redoute , which is good value, too. The cabinet and distressed screen are from flea markets. Check Salvoweb for reclamation yards' current stock. Photograph: Camera Press/MCM/Christophe Dugied The cheap way to be stylish. White paint, and lots of it, is all you need to create this look. Floor paint is available from Farrow & Ball (worth paying for the matt sheen). For bunchey white curtains, try Ikea or Terrys Fabrics . Buy them a length longer than needed, so they bunch on the floor. White painted furniture can be found at Painted Antiques . Photograph: Holly Jolliffe/Guardian This old shop fitters chest was £250 from Glasgow Architectural Salvage. On top is a re-edition Gatto table lamp by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni, a Pure radio, a Loglike book frame and three bottles from Ardingly Antiques fair . The painting on the wall is by Gill Rocca bought from Cavaliero Finn . The other painting was found at an antiques fair at Alexandra Palace . Photograph: Jill Macnair This house is Edwardian and its old, slightly wonky walls would only have been highlighted by bright white so the owner went for a neutral pale sandstone palette, used a Sanderson fabric in duck egg blue for the curtains and painted the wardrobes in a much stronger blue (Prussian from Zoffany ). The wallpaper is from Jane Churchill . The throw is a Missoni one from TK Maxx , as are the lamps. Photograph: Karlyn Evans This bedroom is very calm and peaceful, with white-painted floorboards. The curtains are a subtle striped silk. The screenprint above the bed is by printmaker Clare Cutts . Striped bedlinen, Toast , from £17. Photograph: Sophie Duckworth This bedroom has an ensuite, concrete-rendered wetroom with frosted-glass screens, and a large wardrobe on casters that acts as a dividing wall. Photograph: Sophia Evans In this bedroom, an old railway sign serves as a headboard. On the 70s drawer/shelf (a charity shop find) sits a lamp with an old bouillon can as its shade. Search for collectable vintage tins on eBay and look for flea markets at vintagefurnitureflea.co.uk . Photograph: Holly Jolliffe Old bulb crates are wall-mounted as bedside tables – try Hen and Hammock for similar. Above them, brioche tin lights hang from wooden shelf brackets. Re-Found sells lights made from vintage jelly moulds and colanders. Photograph: Holly Jolliffe This dressing table is made from rosewood and the three-legged stool is by the Ikea founder, Ingvar Kamprad, from Habitat . The bed is made from pieces of timber by Dinesen Douglas , left over from the floor. Photograph: Rachel Whiting More is...more. This fabulous wallpaper is Cole & Son’s Flamingo design. For mannequins, head to vintagestylemannequins.co.uk . Photograph: Rachael Smith The joyful cherry blossom mural in this child's room was handpainted by set painter Susanna Burton (see muralsoncanvas.co.uk ). A similar bespoke design costs from £1,200. Wrought iron beds like this one are available from Ikea . Photograph: Rachael Smith