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justcallmepool
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Comments (23)Hi all, Thanks for continuing to play with me. I'm taking some of your advice and posting a photo board without the rug. I'm really not a brave person when it comes to decorating and the "black" dining room is really out of character for me. My home is very boring in other aspects, hence my desire to have the same drapes in both the dining room and the study across the hall, which limits things some as the dining room is black and the study will be a blue/green/gray. Both rooms currently have that same brown/cream/gold rug also. When I first started on this decorating journey is was with the intention of ivory drapes. But while at the store looking for a sample I came across these blue/gray ones which I really liked with the wall color but not the chair and rug. (You can see both the ivory and the blue in the photo below.) Then I started looking for rugs and found the one pictured here, however I decided as much as I like the color of the bluish drapes I didn't like the pattern that competed with the chair pattern. Sooooo, when I found the stripe I thought, EXACTLY and I still really like it. I'm going to try to get back to the fabric store and buy 1 yard just to live with for a few days. Otherwise, I think I may just have to go with the ivory or an ivory stripe like cami's above so that it will work in both rooms. I'll keep looking at fabric in my spare time though. Hopefully something else will catch my attention AND be in my price range.......See MoreHelp Pick New Fabrics PLEASE?????
Comments (3)If you can sew . . . I've been looking at some of my regular bloggers pages this weekend and noticed some of the pictures from the quilt market. These fabrics are cotton, just not 54 inches wide (or at least quilting fabric usually isn't that wide). The colors all looked so bright and fresh in the pictures. I started with a blog I read regularly, jackiebluehome.blogspot.com/ She has some links on the righthand side of her page of where to buy fabrics. Scroll down to the previous posting of her visit to the quilt market. She is currently designing some of her own things. Then I found a fun blog, jenniferpaganelli.typepad.com/ You'll enjoy looking through her fabric pics. It's difficult to find fabrics for young kids rooms from the regular design books. They just don't make very big selections and they are all expensive anyway. I think the quilting fabric is all washable. And don't forget Amy Butler's fabrics. They're easy to find with a search....See MorePlease help pick fabric to coordinate with CL sofas
Comments (14)I like the lighter tone of the fabric on the left in the picture. Better contrast with everything else. Both are nice...but if you choose the one on the right everything will have the same "value." Have you ever seen those red filters quilters who have a hard time seeing values judge fabrics with? If you looked at both samples I'd bet dollars to donutst that the fabric on the right in the pictue would "read" just about identical to the drapes and sofa....See MoreNeed a fun fabric for a fun settee
Comments (10)If the problem is that the current fabric is too busy and distracts from the carved wood, I don't see how the above suggestions help the problem. Though I personally don't think the fabric is particularly busy (it's pretty tone-on-tone, and from a distance, it definitely doesn't look busy), or particularly dated. But I will concede it doesn't really compliment the fabric on your other chairs. What about a stripe fabric picking up one of the colors from the rug. I think I see green in the larger rug--maybe a green and cream stripe? Or a solid, or very subtle pattern in green?...See Moreliasch
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