As you’ll know if you’ve been following my interiors posts (both on here and on Instagram) I’m really trying to take my time with decorating and furnishing the new house. Mostly because there’s a lot to decorate and furnish and it’s a bit overwhelming, but also because I tend to make bad decisions when I’m panicking and at the moment I have so much going on in my life that adding interiors decisions to the pile sends me into a total tailspin.

And so I find myself with a completely white bedroom. White walls, crisp white ceiling, white window frames and piles of ornate coving around the edges of the room that look as though they’re made of royal icing. Sometimes I lie on the bed and imagine I’m living inside a big wedding cake, which isn’t particularly a bad thing – in fact the freshness of being in an all-white room is rather a nice change from the warmth and comparative darkness of a slick, mid century sort of space. But I don’t have a clue what we’ll do with the bedroom. Wallpaper it with something grand and striking" Keep it white and hang amazing artwork, gallery-style" Have some sort of huge statement chandelier dropping down from the ceiling" I have no idea. And no energy to think about it, so for the time being I am using bed linen as an easy way of totally transforming the room with no real commitment or effort.

A bright throw to add a splash of colour if I’m feeling drea...