OPINION: Arriving at the grand old age of 48, financially secure and living the good life, it appears the time has come where I must think of my future.

Mother has informed me that if I don't settle down soon my looks will fade completely and I could quite possibly die a lonely old woman with my body being found weeks later, half eaten by feral cats.

So I have entered into the interview process for potential suitors. While I have found there are any number of Mr Right-Nows, my Mr Right appears to be a ghost, and I'm not the only woman who feels this way.

I regularly hear from other members of the sisterhood that they too find it a hard road finding the perfect man.

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However, I feel it necessary to point out that perfection is but a Utopian fantasy and blokes out there looking for love are finding it just as difficult, particularly when women have such rigid criteria.

Still, some men do themselves few favours. Window dressing is everything lads and these simple style tips could take you from desperate and dateless and put you firmly on the fast track to the keeper category.

The single biggest piece of advice I can offer is to move out of home. I recognise that the housing market is difficult and I'm sure it is nice with mum on hand to cook you dinner and do your washing, but any man over thirty who lives in his parents' garage, no matter how good looking, kind or sensitive he is, will never be taken seriously by a self-respecting woman.

Emasculated ex-husbands, recognise that you get to make all the decisions about your environment. Where your former wife had the last word when it came to interior design you now have the power, but with this power comes responsibility.

Keep it clean. It doesn't matter what your home looks like, if it is messy or worse still, dirty, we are talking instant turn off. No woman wants to date a slob.

Your home should be fully furnished. A single black leather sofa with a massive TV does not a living room make and it won't impress a woman with any sense of style or taste. In fact, while that large gogglebox might tickle your nethers, I can almost certainly guarantee it won't do the same to hers.

Try and put together a cohesive looking interior, think comfort and function but also form.

You might love your Lay-Z-Boy but many women find them about as alluring as Donald Trump in a speedo. A nicely decorated, well considered home will impress a woman and leave her thinking that there is more to you than meets the eye.This is definitely a good thing.

And now to the nitty gritty. Boys, if you want to woo a lady in the bedroom, make it worth her while.

Let's face it, while you may still look in the mirror and see the bronzed Adonis you were when you were twenty, chances are she's been to Specsavers. Odds on, you're not as skilled in the dance of the horizontal tango as you think you are either.

Reward her instead with some really beautiful bed linen. High thread count sheets, pure linen bed cover, decent duck down pillows and a comforter. As a quick heads up, a comforter is not a bird who pours her man a beer when the AB's lose to the Lions, rather a quilt that you fold at the end of the bed. A finished bed needs a headboard and a valance. It also needs more pillows and cushions than most men can understand. Give a woman a beautiful bedroom and she will feel beautiful too. Trust me on this one. I'm a professional.

Women are attracted to men who have the confidence and ability to pull off a well-presented home. If you have no idea what I mean by this, buy a bunch of design magazines the next time you hit the supermarket and take a lesson in style.

Better still, hire an interior designer to do the hard work for you and sit back and take the credit.