Often, it’s far more difficult to design the interiors of small bedrooms than larger ones.  While the challenge with larger bedrooms is getting the right furniture to fill them, the common fear with small ones is potentially rendering them unbearably claustrophobic with too much furniture.  So, with this in mind, how can you efficiently utilize your small bedroom in a stylishly effective way?  Here are nine suggestions:

1. Properly Decorate Your Room:  Don’t make your bedroom too simplistic and dull.  Using smaller sizes, try to incorporate most of the decorative items, like pictures and rugs, you would normally include in a larger room.  This will help distract from the room’s small size and make it feel more comfortable.
2. Use Mirrors:  Make your bedroom seem larger by covering closet doors with mirrors.  When your room is open, clean and uncluttered, this will make it appear much more spacious.
3. Follow the Lead of

Interior designer Sasha Bikoff, based in New York, reminds us that good style is imaginative and doesn’t always fit a mold.  This mindset informs all of her creative endeavors, as well as her tips for bringing new life to your older furnishings.  Bikoff, in fact, has made a name for herself renovating mid-twentieth century French and Italian furniture in novel ways.  Her method has been to incorporate sumptuous left-over materials from Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana and various other high-end fashion brands into these antiques.  In search of her particular expertise, Architectural Digest found the designer at her newly-opened Tribeca antiques showroom.  Bikoff, during our discussion, detailed three relatively easy ways you can rejuvenate tired old furniture.

The easiest way to do this is to simply mix and match pieces from different periods, in creative, unexpected ways.  Like Dorothy Draper, the woman who founded the United States’ first interior design …