We Scots are rather obsessed with bedrooms. Ask someone how big their home is, and rather than give you the square footage of the property, it's more likely they will tell you how many bedrooms it has.
But behind closed doors, our love affair with the bedroom is apt to cool.
It's the room least likely to be seen by guests, it's often the last to be decorated - yet this is the space where we spend at least a third of our lives.
Now, however, things are changing – with the accent very much on exciting bedroom furniture designed to be seen.
According to Bruce Dick of John Dick & Son in Busby bedrooms are going through an image make-over and the results mean quality, individuality combined with practicality……..to create bedrooms that do make a design statement.
‘Beds are getting bigger, wardrobe interiors are getting cleverer and bedrooms are no longer being kept behind locked doors. The bedroom has become a focal point of the house – and we are finding the bedroom market booming,’ says Bruce.
While the sleigh bed became a design statement for bedrooms in the last few years a more streamlined look is taking over.
The message is - forget about fitted wardrobes, these days freestanding wardrobes are winning as bedroom designers come up with some clever storage solutions to solve every problem. With all sorts of options, from 2 door and three door to a whole wall of doors joined together the choice is yours.
‘These days our customers can customise each piece of furniture and make it their own,’ continues Bruce.
‘I think at last people are becoming aware that they deserve a special place at home where they can really get away from it all and relax – and the bedroom is the ideal place to turn into an opulent, adult space.”