Create Ambience

Individual, unique atmospheres with in your home can create and set the mood for the space. A specific atmosphere is easily achieved by adding a touch of subtle lighting to make a home special, personal, and comfortable.  Most are familiar with the golden glow of traditional lighting, but few recognize that all colored light can enhance our mood and enrich our experience. Various levels and intensities of light can calm, enhance, stimulate, or relax your senses. Lighting is an aspect of decorating that plays directly with your senses. Bright, well-lit rooms demand attention and create interest. Softer, more subdued lighting allows for visitors to feel relaxed and calm as the lighting has a lessened stimulation effect. Ambience is also created and can draw attention to a specific area, item, or decorative piece when well illuminated in a room. Lighting in this sense can create a focal point, area of interest, or pathway for the eye to follow.

Add Pattern

Patterns are the perfect way to call attention to a specific area in an interior space. Patterns are great for incorporating a certain color carried throughout a room and also allow you to quickly coordinate bedding, wall colors, and accents pillows. When decorating with patterns, designers use “the rule of three”: Choose three different patterns to play off each other, as a way to not over-power a space. Most decorators use one dominant, large scale pattern, working it throughout the room as a main fabric for upholstery, carpeting, or even as painted stripes on an accent wall.

A secondary, medium scale pattern is generally used for less dominant furnishings and accessories, such as side chairs or drapes. Choose a third pattern as an accent in accessories like pillows, throws and lamp shades. Three color-related or similar motif patterns combine well together and a few related solids will create unity within the room.

 

Incorporate Texture

Touch and texture are a huge part of creating comfort. In a bedroom, texture becomes comfort you can feel. A style and mood can be easily manipulated by incorporating various textures in bedding, decorative accents, pillows, and window treatments. To alter a bedroom's texture try a change of linens or use a furry throw in winter versus cotton throw in summer. These textures are recognized as warm and cool and both create a seasonal feel within the space. Textures can reflect any style, mood, or personality. When trying to create a bedroom style remember these textures, from Better Homes and Gardens, to help create a comfortable space that is reflective of your taste!

Traditional: Hand-tufted rugs, woven wools, tooled silver, cut crystal, gilded frames, silk, china, and polished wood.
Country: Braided rugs, worn wood, rusted metals, chenille spreads, ironstone pottery, blown glass, and ticking.
Romantic: Velvet, furry throws, crystal prisms, embroidered fabrics, lace, painted furniture, and hand-hooked rugs.
Modern: Laminated-plywood furniture, plastic, smooth leather, stainless steel, terrazzo flooring, and teak.

Why Not Re-Upholster?

As we head into spring and the weather warms up, yard sale season begins and it’s a great time to visit consignment shops as people clean out their houses to get rid of old furniture. Finding an old piece of furniture that may have a small rip or tear can be a great find at the right price! You can easily take your bargain find and make it look brand new with a little re-upholstery! Let Creative Interiors help you find just the right fabric for a re-upholstery job on an old piece of furniture you want to spruce up! We have a large selection of upholstery weight fabrics and can help you get your upholstery job underway! Re-upholstering is the perfect way to re-vamp a piece of rundown furniture. It also allows you to put a new spin on an antique piece or hang on to a couch or chair you can’t bear to part with but that is in bad shape!

All About Box Pleats

An inverted box pleat drapery heading is a traditional style for any room in the home. This style is popular for its conventional and clean pleat design. Box pleats are stationary panels with clean, unbroken lines that are wonderful in silk, a lightweight velvet and everything in between. Box pleats are very versatile and are easily and beautifully made in various colors and patterns. A box pleat is a interesting alternative to pinch pleats but can likewise be uses either as a stationary treatment with tieback or with decorative rod.

All About Pinch Pleats

Pinch pleats, looking sophisticated and neatly tailored, are a very popular way to finish off the top of drapes. A pinch pleated drapery is a great addition to any traditional or elegant styled space since it offers a dramatic, yet timeless look. This type of drapery is called ‘pinched’ because the top of the drape is literally pinched together. The pinched pleats are spaced evenly apart and weighted at the bottom of the seams. This creates a tailored look at the top. As the fabric drops down toward the floor, the pleats control the fullness allowing the drape to fall smoothly and evenly. A pinch pleated drape is hung usually using pin hooks that are pierced into the fabric at the top of the back of the curtain panel next to each pleat. The pins are then attached to a traverse rod or rings that hang from a decorative rod.

Robert Allen® Fabric Draperies

Custom draperies look gorgeous in this heavy-weight, durable 100% cotton Robert Allen® Belle Porte Citrine print fabric. Such window treatments can be custom made and installed at Creative Interiors. Robert Allen fabrics for the season come in a stylish array of coordinating prints available in grays, ice blues, mustard yellows, browns, and navy. Robert Allen fabrics are beautiful, trendy, and modern. This fabric collection makes for great window treatments, upholstery, and accent pillows.