Space solves: A red room and a tea stain

Our daughter wants a red bedroom. Since our house is rented, I was thinking of a red wall sticker, so it would be easy to remove when we leave. Where can I find one with no decorations but only red? Interior designer Suzy Hoodless ­ says, "Several companies sell wall stickers in ­various funky designs. For instance, spincollective.co.uk has removable vinyl wall stickers in great patterns, and almost all of them come in shades of red; rockettstgeorge.co.uk has particularly lovely (and girlie) butterflies; or try wallglamour.co.uk . All are easy to apply (so long as you follow the instructions) and easy to remove. ­However, once ­removed, they are rarely reusable." We have a tea cup stain – a white ring – on our polished cherry wood dining table. We have tried unsuccessfully to get it out with furniture polish. Can you suggest anything else? "The stain is caused by ­moisture particles trapped beneath the ­surface," says cleaning expert Stephanie Zia. "One way of lifting them is to fold an undyed cotton tea-towel in four, place it over the stain and dab with an iron on a ­medium, non-steam setting. However, as you could seriously damage your table if you get the temperature wrong, a safer approach would be to hold a hairdryer about 15cm from the stain for five to 10 minutes, buffing every so often with a duster. Or try putting a warm hot-water ­bottle over a towel and laying it over the spot. Or soak a cloth or a slice of bread with a 50:50 mixture of linseed oil and turpentine, put it over the stain and leave overnight." • Got a question for our crack team of domestic experts? Email [email protected]