3 minute read
Homes - Cosy Fall
Catherine’s Top Tips
Advertisement
Petite Patterns
In order to play with the space, to create different moods, we can just change pillow covers. Pillows are inexpensive, small and perfect for adding a pop of colour and adding some fun to the space. Play with different patterns and colours. My insider tip is to always place a trio: plain (no pattern), geometric pattern (repeated or striped) and ‘free’ pattern, such as flowers, large branches, birds.
Seasonal changes
With small changes, such as changing the sofa covers, we can create a winter and a summer environment.
For example, a dark green velvet cover will evoke images of evergreen trees, starry skies, and snowfall, preparing your living room to match the changing landscape outside.
For the summer season, a raw linen nude cover, will give a lighter and summery atmosphere to the space, and it will be much more comfortable to the touch during the warm season.
Wonderful Wallpaper
Nothing packs more of a punch than wallpaper. Grasscloth wallpaper is one of my favourite options for instantly elevating any room. It creates a more layered space and brings an element of intimate cosiness with its unique texture, and a vacation / beach vibe to the space. It’s simple, textural, and so very elegant.
One of the common mistakes is using a wallpaper or a solid colour on just one wall. It shortens the space, creates a unique focus, and brings no style!
In a room, wallpaper should be used on every wall, or, if it is to be used only on one wall as an accent, it should be inside a frame. This way you will have a more finished look, and it won’t look like you ran out of paper!
Don’t go too matchy
As in fashion, we shouldn’t buy everything to match. The ‘matchy-matchy’ interior design to describe a space that is perfectly and painfully matched is over. The goal of creating a beautiful space is to make it look slightly unintentional. Your interior colours do not have to match, but they should look good together. For example, within the same style, you can combine the same type of patterns in different colours. The space will surely be more appealing and unique!
How to mix your woods
Mixing different types of wood in a space has to have a lot of balance!
If your furniture is sitting directly on your hardwood floors, a good way to break this up is a great area rug or, you can opt for chairs that are fully upholstered, including the legs.
On a dining table, for example, it is not advisable to mix the table and chairs with different woods. If you have a wooden table, you can choose painted chairs, with a decapé or even upholstered.
Space-defining rugs
There are plenty of reasons to have an area rug in a living room, bedroom, or other living space. Area rugs provide comfort, warmth, and decorative interest (colour, pattern, texture). And they can create a frame to define a space, and to increase it.
An area rug should fit under all of the key furniture pieces in a room. For instance, a rug should go far enough under a couch that at least the couch’s front legs can be on the rug. The other furniture in the room, like the armchairs, or a second couch, have to be able to also fit on the rug. It will visually make the living area much larger. In the same space, you can use a combination of a plain rug, either fur or natural, seagrass type, and a patterned Persian rug under a desk or armchair area. This will balance the space and bring harmony.
Follow Catherine @catherinecabralinteriors
