start with fabric for room choices
5. Get a little matchy-matchy. A carefully planned and tightly edited color palette is a hallmark of traditional style. Consider starting with a fabric, such as the blue gingham used on the chairs here, and bring a swatch to the paint store to pull your wall color right from the fabric. And if you love a certain fabric or color, don't be afraid to repeat it in matching curtains, on Roman shades or on a second piece of furniture.
could decorate with all blues from light to dark
Unusual, nice. .. and cinnamon color. Mediterranean. For furniture, large throw pillow, headboard or cornice boards. Cotton / poly.
An Oriental purple toile fabric featuring a pagoda. Vintage effect Asian toile like an ink wash painting. From a distance one sees grape purple, navy ink, charcoal, black, and a deep greyed green on beige. This is a mid weight woven with a heavy basket weave, with slightly flattened thread.
Dresses!! Bring a fabric swatch, or art as color inspiration. A white piece of paper can help you see colors correctly. In the store, a pale color may look virtually white, but in your home it will contrast against ceiling, trim, even a switch plate or lampshade, rendering the color much more noticeable... Bringing something pure white — and also pure black — will give you something to contrast against the paint swatches to help you see undertones / For example, a “light” blue may seem lighter than the other blue shades on the same paint chip, but compared with a stark white it might suddenly look a lot more saturated.
suzani pattern / pillows, drapes, chairs ? purpley, brown, silvery
88" for $80 in poly
tropical punch for 42 yd.
Harvest red suzani cotton 52 yd.
fabric is Santa Maria Mimosa
nice in green and white room, bit of wood. 8 per yard on amazon.com
not hard to find that blue for sheets.
curtains and chair
for canvas art / pillow
chair is pretty in that fabric
any flower almost...
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