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In a small bedroom, the wardrobe is the piece that makes or breaks the room. Get it right and everything has a home and the floor stays clear; get it wrong and you're forever squeezing past a door that won't quite open or living out of a wardrobe too small to be useful. So the choice deserves proper thought. "Fitted versus sliding" is how the qu...

Interior designers have relied on it for centuries, and it still works better than almost anything: put a mirror in a room, and the room feels bigger. It's not magic; it's light and reflection doing exactly what our eyes are easily fooled by. And the clever modern version isn't hanging more mirrors on the wall; it's letting your furniture do the...

The bedroom has quietly become the hardest-working room in many homes. It's where we sleep, of course, but it's also increasingly where we work, exercise, read, and retreat when the rest of the house is busy. For anyone in a flat, a house-share, or simply a home without a spare room, the bedroom often has to be three rooms in one. The challenge ...