Master bedrooms (WITH 5* LUXURY)

The master bedroom is often the last room we decorate, behind the kids’ rooms, kitchen and, definitely, the bathroom. To be fair, we’ve got our eyes shut for 90 per cent of the time we’re in there, so it’s not surprising it gets left until last. But there’s an upside to this state of affairs. By the time we get to decorating the master bedroom we’ve honed our DIY skills, established our sense of style and, with luck, grown braver – or at least a tiny bit more confident.

If you’re also stone-broke at this point, take a little (or long) breather until you’ve regrouped and earned enough pennies to really do the room justice. For this is the point of the master bedroom: it is