With a few key tips, you can decorate your home or your office like a pro. Interior designers specialize in mixing patterns and textures to create inviting spaces. To create a signature decorative plan, try using the following tips when you restyle any space.
Start with One Selection
Many design experts will tell you to first select one sample fabric you love, something that you can use to hinge your other selections to. It needn’t be showy or special in any other way except that you like it best. Once you have your central fabric, so to speak, you can begin to add other fabrics and patterns to the mix. For a dynamic look, be sure to add more than two or three styles to your combination. It’s definitely ok to be versatile. You’ll likely see this type of versatility on display when you visit the New York textile shows.
Mix Up the Pattern Scale
When putting textiles together, make sure that the scale of each pattern adds its own particular dimension to the space. You don’t, for instance, want each selection to showcase oversized designs or minute designs. In other words, mix up the scale so that the fabrics aren’t forced to compete with one another. Each will have its own place in the spectrum.
Mix Up Textures
Mixing up textures in your decorative plan is especially important when you’re working with a lot of solid colors or simple patterns. The different textures will add some appealing contrast to the space. Be sure to choose fabrics that have different weaves or sheens. Sometimes subtle differences can be the most striking. When walking through showrooms, be sure to see how other designers marry textures together.
Balance
To create a design that is well balanced, be sure that you haven’t gone overboard one particular element. It’s a good idea to play off that original fabric you selected. If your other decorative elements play nicely with that fabric, you are on your way to a harmonized design. If you’ve selected too many dark colors or busy patterns, your plan might appear skewed. When you prioritize the need for balance, you’re bound to wind up with a pleasing result.
Keep these tips in mind as you put together your decorative plan. Again, design showrooms can be great inspirations for what is possible, for what works well.