I'd have a quirky feature wall with the other walls a light blue! Then you could use different vintage pieces around the room. Alternatively, I would have a duck egg/light blue feature wall with a nice pattern and the other walls a light cream/white. Either way I would put your bed against the feature wall with some basic curtains.

I'm assuming that this is the master bedroom and you are trying to create a more adult and sophisticated scheme. Also, you mentioned that the bed is going into a spare room, so we're discussing pretty much a blank canvas. As this is your room, it would not be sensible to remove or make the wardrobes smaller since you need them. You may be able to split the single door into a top-half door with a fixed bottom and add a chest of drawers below the window that is fitted from the left hand wall to the fixed half door. Why would you choose the paint colour and paper before your bed? There are endless variations of paint and paper; far more than bed choices. Start with the furniture, then the decor. You could purchase your bed and base separately from a headboard and match the base to the bedside cabinets. Decide what shape and height headboard you want. You could have an oversized headboard or even upholster panels to fit wall to wall and floor to ceiling at the head of the bed, making a feature of that wall. I would keep the decorating of the walls the same, rather than have a feature decor wall. Breaking up the decor of the walls in a small room will make the room appear even smaller. Also, the colour you choose for the walls will be heavily influenced by the light at different times of the day. If the room appears dark throughout the day, don't fight it. Instead make the walls dark and cozy. If you plan to use the patchwork quilt again, look at dark denim blue or a deeper raspberry. Finally, the windows. Keep the window dressings simple with roller blinds or Roman blinds. You can use ready mades or choose a fabric you love and ask your local blind dealer if blinds can be made for you. Have them outside the recesses for better light control. Good luck.

Hi Sonia, thank you for replying. Our bedroom is not huge so white wardrobes would keep the room lighter, but as the chests of drawers are off black we really should paint new wardrobe doors the same. The new doors would be simple, with off black frame with full length bevelled mirrors. The doors have to be made at a cost so we don’t want to get them painted the colour and regret it ! Dilemma. Thank you

This is a child bedroom idea