You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment.

No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.