Just because your bedroom is small doesn’t mean it has to be boring. San Francisco–based designer Antonio Martins added an 18th-century Portuguese Bilros bed to this guest room in his home.

There are many small bedroom lighting ideas you can use for your guest bedroom; Linda has some more tips: "Ambient and task lighting work best together to create a cozy, functional space," she says.

If you have a small bedroom, it can be particularly difficult to bring in pattern without overpowering a space. Designer Beata Heuman deftly displayed how to do so in this pictured West London ...

Use either grey or pink in a big way (think wall colours or giant rug) and then speckle the other colour around the room. A bit like a 70/30 split.

The color scheme of our bedding can also make a small bedroom look bigger. Typically, white, grey, blue and green are cool colours that work well to extend a room and make it feel airy.