How to add glamour to your bedroom

2. Furniture

Glamorous furniture starts with your imagination! Look at what you have already - maybe a piece of wooden furniture that might need a touch of cream paint, or add some crystal knobs to a set of drawers or to a wardrobe door for a touch of elegance. Mirrored furniture like Astoria (ideal for living or bedroom) can bounce the light around, and all that reflection oozes glamour all at the same time.

3. Curtains

Keep the curtains long and buckling with large tassel tiebacks. Use luxury fabrics like silks, damasks or velvets in light colours of creams, champagne, beige or soft fawns. Take a look in our shops at Maison Henry Bertrand Dupion silk (657 90402) which is just £17.50 a metre, in fawn, sherry or cream.

4. Lighting

Mood lighting is key to this look; keep to table lamps made of crystal or a cream base, and use silk shades in pale tones. Try trimming the shades in feathers or drop beads from our Haberdashery departments for an even more decorative and glamorous look. A wonderful jewel or shell chandelier can set the scene - they have movement and make a glamorous statement.

5. Bedroom stories

Glamour is all about luxury, so the bedlinen needs to enhance that dramatic look and feel - use silks, damasks or satins, and dress the bed with an array of different cushions and bolsters – our plain silks are fantastic value. A headboard would finish the look in a luxurious faux suede or perhaps leather - wonderful to the touch, and once again adding texture.

6. Finishing touches

This is the fun bit - adding in wonderful scented candles either grouped together or candles in a jar- and the perfect accompaniment of a glass jewellery box or picture frames (see examples by Waterford and Glencove in our shops), or perhaps vintage Lalique crystal glass perfume bottles – all will catch the light wonderfully.