Create a jewel box. In David Kaihoi's 64-square-foot bedroom in Manhattan, he covered the walls in an eye-catching, hand-painted 18th-century Chinese wallpaper found at auction. "The idea was to create a jewel-box effect in the bedroom, with pattern to distract your senses from the tight quarters," he says. "I papered the wall in the spirit of a collage trying to make the most of a beautiful old thing. Call it a new take on a traditional application." Shop a similar look: tan bed ($692, jossand