Hi Anne, The colours of your bedroom don't have to match your ensuite but it is important to keep some consistency between these two spaces. As an example, you could have off-white walls with white linen and some light blue (or even peacock) soft furnishing (cushions, throw, a tuffted ottoman at the bottom of the bed or a bedroom chair), and then have bedside lamps with burgundy shades, and maybe some cushions with a flowery pattern that combines cream, blue and burgundy together... This is, of course, just an example. You will have to see what colour combination would work best for your space, depending on the light entering the room, the existing flooring, the style of your furniture and, last but not least, your tastes. But the idea is to inject your bedroom with small hints of some of the colours present in your ensuite. I hope this helps :)

I would definitely ditch the brown marble and go similar to the window sill. It is just beautiful. It looks like Carerra but you can find similar tiles that are from Chinese quarries. Marry it with white paint and add white and grey tones to your accessories. You could accent it with any color as it is a neutral. Brown dates very quickly where is white marble is timeless and classy. Good luck!!

We recently renovated my son's kitchen/ family room in a weekend. His oven needed replacing so it was a good opportunity to 'fix' it all. We rang around and got quotes on having the cupboard doors professionally painted but it was way too expensive so we took the pine laminate cupboard doors off and painted with a white laminate paint and replaced all the timber handles with chrome ones. We retiled with 600x 300 white marble look tiles (leftovers from our bathroom) (cut the old tiles out and re-sheeted the walls so we had a good surface to tile on) and repainted ceilings and walls. Replaced a dark timber venetian blind with a see through 'sun-out' blind and painted all the architraves white (previously mission brown). A new mixer tap replaced very ancient 'double' taps. We were totally shattered at the end of the weekend, but the kitchen looks a million dollars and the room looks twice the size now the pine and mission brown have gone. We are pretty chuffed with the result achieved by us unprofessionals!

I can see you have already had some great advice and if I offered my choice from the three it would be the middle one. But in truth, I personally wouldn’t have any of them as they just remind me of those ‘real fake’ pictures where a group Thai ‘artists’ each paint a part and pass it on, banging out 100 a day. I am pleased that some Thai family is in employment, just not sure about all the middlemen. For our wedding my wife and I asked all guest to donate whatever they felt they wanted toward a painting, we already had enough kettles. In the end we had enough to buy a painting each. I originally wanted to buy a picture that may go up in value and be something of an investment for my son. The gallery owner who helped us with our choice made this point, that when you choose something for an investment its worth remembering you should enjoy looking at the picture as well. We went with that advice first. I’m sure there must plenty of places where a genuine local artist would appreciate the purchase of their work in order to make a living. My plan when we finish our rebuild here in Christchurch is to fill our walls this way. But if you ended up with an abstract those links on doing one yourself looked interesting.