Is your bed wearing a skirt?

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Where do you hide your gubbins? For many, it all gets stashed under the bed. Valances – also known as bed skirts – are therefore essential decorating tools. “It’s almost the only thing you need in your room,” says Emma Burns, managing director of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, who almost always uses them in her design projects. “A bed looks naked without…