The best hotel rooms do something a showroom can't: they make you want to go home and change your own. A wall colour you'd never have dared to try, a headboard that carries the whole room, a sofa that shouldn't work but does.

We've picked ten HIP Hotels whose interiors are as good for ideas as they are for sleeping, from Parisian monochrome to a Cotswolds-soft palette. Read on, then reach for the paintbrush.

Saltmoore

Steal the look: one colour, everywhere

At Saltmoore, one colour runs right through a room. Take the yellow rooms: painted walls, a matching patterned headboard and yellow stripes in the en-suite bathroom. Painting everything one shade makes a small room feel intentional rather than busy, and the trick is to repeat the colour in different patterns and textures.

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Villa La Madonna

Steal the look: glamour with a sense of humour

A zebra-print sofa, large gold mirrors, velvet and soft colouring: Villa La Madonna proves that bold pieces can sit happily in a soft room. Pick one statement item, like the sofa, and keep everything around it quiet. Gold mirrors help too, because they bounce light around.

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Neema Maison Santorini

Steal the look: bold red and stripes

Santorini is usually white and blue. Neema Maison goes for bold red, with modern furnishings and striped accents, and it works because the shapes stay clean. If you want to use a strong colour, keep the furniture simple and let one pattern, such as stripes, repeat through the room.

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Hyll Hotel

Steal the look: soft, quiet countryside

In the Cotswolds, Hyll Hotel shows how countryside chic can feel calm. Soft textures and a restrained palette let the landscape do the talking. The takeaway is to choose tactile materials, like linen, wool and brushed cotton, and skip the extra decoration.

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The Emerald

Steal the look: eclectic, with exposed brick

The Emerald mixes vintage furniture with exposed brick walls and eclectic design. The combination of old and raw is easy to copy: pair worn-in pieces with a plain or textured wall, and don't worry about matching.

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Le Pigalle

Steal the look: monochrome with a twist

Le Pigalle is Paris at its most passionate and stylish: a monochrome scheme warmed up with vintage furnishings, eclectic artwork and a modern sound system. The lesson is that black and white doesn't have to feel cold. Keep the palette tight, then add character through secondhand finds, art that doesn't match and a really good speaker.

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Hôtel Le Cep

Steal the look: maximalism with real history

In a Renaissance-era building in Beaune, Hôtel Le Cep layers rich heritage interiors with antique furnishings. This is maximalism done with confidence. You don't need a palace to copy it: start with one or two genuine antiques, and let the rest of the room come together around them.

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Villa Provence

Steal the look: a cosy country house in deep colour

Villa Provence in Aarhus has the cosy feel of a country house, with deep colour palettes, vintage bedframes, vintage artwork and rich textures. Dark, saturated walls suit a bedroom, especially paired with a bedframe that has some age to it and plenty of soft layers.

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Nouri Hotel

Steal the look: calm, natural minimalism

At the edge of the Black Forest, Nouri is built around one idea: space. Its interiors rely on natural materials, soft textures and a gentle, earthy palette, so every room feels warm and calming rather than stark. It's a good reminder that minimalism works best when it's tactile. Choose a few high-quality natural materials, keep your colours soft and earthy, and give each piece room to breathe.

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Design Hotel Neruda

Steal the look: the headboard as art

At Design Hotel Neruda, feature headboards and artwork do the work. A statement headboard anchors a bedroom, and a piece of art above or beside it finishes the look. If you only change one thing, change this.

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Take it home

You don't need to copy a whole room. Take one idea, whether that's a colour, a headboard or a single piece of vintage furniture, and see how far it goes.