Colourful style updates for your room

Looking to give your room an easy style update on a budget? Simply create a feature wall using a single pot of paint or a striking roll of wallpaper.

Look at wallpaper in a room setting, if possible, before you buy. Look at the room sets in your local showroom, ask for a sample or or buy one roll to take home.

With the popularity of fifties and sixties designs - and the current celebration of all things British - it's not surprising retro wallpaper is big style news.

The natural world has always been a source of inspiration for designers. Choose free-flowing designs in soft, subtle greens - or vibrant, contemporary abstract forms - and bring the outside in.

Vintage look wallpapers don't need to be overpowering. Keep things simple with pared-down elegant style.

With the popularity of fifties and sixties designs, retro wallpaper is big style news this year. Cut after hanging - paste to the wall, score with scissors, then cut it before pasting the edges down.

Whether you're decorating a town apartment or a place in the country blue and white is a timeless combination.

For best results, wash walls down with sugar soap and sand down woodwork before decorating.