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

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

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/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/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/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