Beautiful bedrooms

How to make your bedroom the pathway to sweet dreams with four different approaches.

Our bedrooms are our personal sanctuaries – a place to lock out the world and snuggle down for what will hopefully be a restful slumber. And so it’s no surprise that as the winter months hit, there’s a flurry of sales of both furniture and soft furnishings intended to make the room feel cosier.

“When it comes to the change of seasons, there’s quite a difference in what people are looking for in what is the most important room of the house,” says Tara Solberg, interior stylist and founder of

Few & Far (fewandfar.com.au). “Making it really comfortable and inviting promotes a good night’s sleep. It means you can completely switch off and leave behind everything you’ve been thinking, doing or working on that day. It’s our retreat area.”

It’s also a room that has seen several new and varying trends emerge. Tara talks us through four bedrooms done four very different ways …