An Elegant Touch

Our top tips, guaranteed to turn your bedroom into into an opulent night time retreat. An Elegant Touch

Make a statement this spring, by turning your bedroom into a luxurious haven full of bold colours and decadent fabrics. We take a look at the ways to upgrade your room with a touch of elegance.

Bold colours Don’t be afraid to add some colour into your bedroom. Deep blues and greens can add drama to your room without it being too over-the-top colourful. Stick to one colour scheme and build from that foundation. Iliv Interior Textiles have thoughtful, beautiful and unique fabric designs to inspire you to create stunning interiors. Like the Cotswold Prussian fabric, pick out the bold colours and run with it. By adding accents of browns and yellows to compliment the deep hues, you can brighten up the space.

Experiment with different fabrics If bold colours aren’t your thing, mix different fabrics and textures throughout the room to add depth and style to your bedroom. From lush velvet to faux fur, bold brass decor to simple elegant wood finishings, there is a multitude of ways to feel luxurious without comprimising on style. Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. Choose the Orbit accent chair in blue. Invitingly deep seated, with curved, velvet covered arms that invite touch. With hardwood in the frame, and slim hardwood legs, the accent chair is made to last. Add comfort and glamour with a faux fur made from 100% acrylic, ideal for adding a luxurious feel to your home. A perfect addition to bedrooms, the deep and shaggy pile offers a super-soft warming effect, especially on hard-flooring.

A popular textile throughout interior design, silk is a natural fiber known for its luster, shine, strength, and durability.

Silk is the epitome of luxury due to its soft touch, and elegant appearance. You may not want however to cover all your furnishings in this luxurious fabric, instead, use it sparingly in cushions, headboards, drapes or curtains.

Just Fabrics, one of the leading independent designer fabric retailers in the country has a huge selection fabrics for curtains, upholstery, cushions. Their range of range of velvet or velour and chenille fabrics are great for adding a touch of luxury to your interiors. Velvet fabrics make fantastic upholstery fabrics for a sophisticated look. Visit them online at www.justfabrics.co.uk or visit one of their fabric shops and warehouses in Burford or Cheltenham.

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Don’t forget the walls Go for wallpaper with bold prints and different textures. Available in a variety of colours, Club Damask by Eijffinger (shown at the top of the page) is a large scale damask design printed on a foil wallpaper, resulting in a stunning wallpaper with a wow factor. For an added dramatic effect, try adding large mirrors to your wall to open up a room. Place them opposite a window to instantly make the room seem bigger than it actually is.

Light it up Add a statement pendant light or a sleek metallic floor lamp for a simple luxurious look. Be bold and choose an unusual shape with a shiny glass or crystal finish, to really add elegance to your bedroom.

Pillows pillows and pillows When you see perfectly designed luxury hotel rooms, there are always more than enough pillows on the bed, piled high to to sink into after a long day. In your own home however, it may not be practical to have layers upon layers of pillows strewn across your bed. Instead, go for a two or maybe even three rows of plumped up cushions, varying in size and texture. Again go for high end fabrics; silk, faux fur and velvet.

Fabulous furniture Boutique hotel-style furniture immediately instils contemporary and modern bedrooms with a luxurious presence. Avoid highly detailed and complex designs and instead aim for simple elegance through softly balanced frames and straightforward colour combinations.

Layering simplistic furniture pieces with defined features across a richly coloured backdrop evokes feelings of an opulent and luxurious night-time retreat.

Pavillion Broadway has a range of luxury bedroom furniture in all shapes and styles, offering a selection of individual pieces and designer bedroom furniture sets to create your desired interior look. Their Theodore Alexander Bedside Chest Eli in Polished Nickel is a perfect example of how to get the polished luxury look by using a simple colour in an elegant design. n

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Tree planting is now widely regarded as part of a solution to the climate crisis with local and national governments now setting targets for the number of trees to be planted.

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Herefordshire’s landscape has around 15% tree cover and many, including Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, believe this should be far higher – closer to 30%. This would have significant benefits for storing carbon, for our native wildlife and for people as woodlands are, of course, wonderful places to visit.

However, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is keen to ensure that all trees planted in the county are the right trees – in the right places, with a plan for their after care for their whole life. It is important to pick native tree species that have a local provenance rather than trees grown in nurseries overseas that are shipped to the UK. Equally important is the planting site. The Trust’s Estates Manager James Hitchcock advises: “it’s really important that trees are not planted on land that already benefits wildlife and is already storing carbon – for example, wetlands lock up 1.9 tonnes of carbon per acre. Wildflower meadows, permanent pastures and Commons are also all hugely important ecologically and it’s vital these are preserved within our landscapes.” The Trust advises instead to focus on increasing the numbers of hedgerow, orchard and parkland trees. When it comes to establishing a new woodland, farmland, especially field edges or fields where soil organic matter is very depleted is suggested as a good site. The Trust also promotes natural regeneration. This means allowing land to naturally revert to woodland as seeds colonise uncultivated ground. This is a slower process than planting saplings but is a cheap, low carbon option with less need for aftercare. The Trust’s Chief Executive Helen Stace says: “It’s fantastic that so many people are now interested in tree establishment and new woodland creation and this is great news for wildlife. Where planting can be most effective is where it helps to connect existing woodlands within the landscape. So, planting trees within sight of an existing woodland, planting hedgerows between woodlands and allowing existing woods to widen out or extend. This means that woodland wildlife can move over wider areas to find food and shelter and to breed and this results in stable, and growing, populations. We’re planning events to help the public make decisions on where to plant and have just launched our Trees and Climate Change policy. Anyone interested should get in touch.”

Wildlife that will particularly benefit from increased woodland that is actively managed in the county includes many small woodland birds. The British Trust for Ornithology states that: “Woodland species such as Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Spotted Flycatcher and Willow Tit have shown... serious declines (more than 80%) since 1970.” Our woodland wildflowers such as bluebell, primrose, lily-of-the-valley, violets and honeysuckle will also benefit along with the butterflies which thrive in woodland glades but are facing severe declines: pearl-bordered and silver-washed fritillaries, purple hairstreak and wood white. n

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