Fabric in Seattle – The Importance of Fabric to Your Interior Design Project
Most homeowners who embark on interior design projects concentrate on paint colors when making decisions about the look and feel of their living space. It is easy to downplay decisions about fabrics that you use in your home. However, treating fabric as a secondary consideration is a mistake. According to interior designers, fabric color, texture, and quality contribute greatly to the mood and atmosphere of your home. There are 29 fabric stores in Seattle alone according to the consumer website Yelp. The right fabrics can lend a sophisticated, even luxurious, touch to your home, while poor quality or inappropriate fabric can make your home and its furnishings look cheap and sloppy. Make sure you make fabric a major point of discussion during any Seattle interior design consultation.
Interior designers agree that fabric plays a role in most of the important accessories in every room in your home. You can choose quality interior paint in an attractive hue for your living room, but the room may fall flat if you choose the wrong sofa upholstery or curtain fabric. Your dining room’s aesthetic appeal can ride upon the fabric chosen for chair and table coverings. In the bedroom, you must consider bedding and throw pillows. A rug with the right texture can pull an interior space together.
Color is the first decision you must make regarding fabric. The fabric you choose for a room’s accessories can coordinate with the primary paint color or complement. You will learn the different effects that each color choice has upon a room’s impact during a Seattle interior design consultation. Suppose you have painted your sitting room a light blue. One option is to choose fabrics in various shades of blue. An all-blue sitting room creates a peaceful atmosphere especially appropriate for homes in Seattle, where the water plays such an important environmental role. However, if you go the monochromatic route, take care not to make the room boring by matching your fabrics too closely to the wall color. Conversely, fabrics in a monochromatic scheme should be in the same color family of colors as the wall paint. Electric indigo or teal might not be suitable for a room with sky-blue walls.
The same sky-blue sitting room will look entirely different with fabric accents in a contrasting peach or in complementary lemon yellow and pink. Likewise, you can make your sitting room sophisticated with leather and linen fabrics or soft and inviting with silk and velvet chenille. An interior designer is knowledgeable about these different effects and can provide fabric advice based on the effects you desire.
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