Coordinating Fabrics

Do you love the look of coordinated prints and patterns in interior decor? Coordinating fabrics used in homes, bedrooms, and living rooms create unity within a space.  Prints that mesh well together have similar patterns or motifs and incorporate similar colors, textures, and have a similar hand. You can get a more professional or high-end look when pairing coordinating prints by keeping the background colors the same with comparable patterns. Look for like colors and repeats in each fabric pattern that you choose. Keep your fabric coordinate pairings balanced by including a mixture of large, medium, and small pattern sizes or add plain or textured fabrics for more interest.

Christmas Decorations

When decorating for Christmas, remember to keep it to your taste. Decorating should not mean redoing your entire house, it means keeping your taste and adding some Christmas cheer! You never want to change your style just the month of December (or if you're like me, some of November, too). Try to add the simple touches of Chritmas by enhancing what is already exsisting. Nothing says Christmas like garland and tinsle... but nothing says obsessed like covering your entire house in it.

Stick with what you like and come home to your very own Christmas wonderland! Also, remember that Creative Interiors can make this happen for you! We offer Christmas decorating tips and we can do all the labor for you as well! Stop by, call, or click to ask us about it today!

Leather, surprising facts you may not have known!

When buying that cute little leather bag, or even that oh-so-worth-it expensive leather couch, there are some things you should know before you make that purchase.

The number one thing to know is when something says "genuine leather" it is as genuine as a promise during an election. Genuine Leather is leather, but its the top layer of the skin (the most worn and torn) all ground up, laid into a type of glue, and pressed into a leather pattern to make it look real, but its actually a cheap imitation of the real deal.

To get the best quality leather out there, look for leather that is described as "full grain". Full grain leather is the bottom layer (the softest and sturdiest) of the cow's skin. This is what you should look for when purchasing something you will be using a lot, like a couch or that expensive handbag you'll use forever. Another type of leather that is good to use on upholstery and furniture is top grain, which is sturdy and durable, but with a stain resistant finish, great for childproofing that new expensive furniture!