![]() ![]() A classic animal print can be the lead fabric while warming up the room and acting as that neutral. Hollie mentions that if your lead pattern is neutral, you can layer with various textures and other neutral patterns. Sikes – neutral pattern on pattern with plenty of textures and layers. Praise be A NEUTRAL, MONOCHROMATIC ROOM:Īnother by Mark D. There’s also plenty of texture throughout the layers of ivory, green, and light blue. This is another example of a room with subtle pattern. AN EXAMPLE OF A ROOM WITH BARELY ANY PATTERN: There’s a geometric on the floor, a solid pattern on the sofa, floral window treatment layered with a textured shade, floral pillows, allover small-scale pattern on the loveseat and animal print on the stool. Sikes Look at all those variations of BLUE! A BOLD (NOT SO MONOCHROMATIC) ROOM WITH SUBTLE PATTERN: You may be drawn to rooms that are monochromatic, which means the room contains variations of one color. By pulling colors and tones directly out of the main pattern, you’re creating a color scheme. Whatever lead pattern/color you choose, be sure it’s something that you love and don’t foresee yourself getting tired of any time soon. ![]() contrasting pillow patterns to Althea (i.e. ![]() wall paint color (or a paint color that pairs nicely will all these colors, most likely a warm taupe).These colors will be pulled into the room via: I pulled the colors out of the Althea pattern and created a color palette from the pattern to dictate the details that I have yet to choose for the rest of the room. In our living room, the drapes are the lead pattern. I know this sounds simple and rather obvious but there are many different ways you can leverage that main pattern. *THEN* USE THE LEAD PATTERN TO DICTATE COLORS & DETAILS FOR THE REST OF THE ROOM Hollie prefers choosing a multicolor, large scale print (often floral) as the lead pattern. Whether that pattern or color is in the drapery, a sofa, wallpaper, a rug, even a PILLOW (nothing is ever too small to be the lead pattern) – but choose a pattern you love. In the initial stages of creating a mood board for a room, Hollie and I both agree that you can start by… CHOOSING A LEAD PATTERN FIRST. ….but I’m also drawn to this room, which is abundant with classic Bowood pattern: I’m drawn to this room, which contains very little pattern: Pull up your Pinterest boards and pay attention to your favorite rooms. What colors and patterns are you drawn to? Is your style eclectic or casual? What is the room going to be used for? What’s your enneagram? Your social security number? etc.īefore we dive in, I’d like to thank Hollie of Stuck on Hue for contributing her insight for mixing pattern and color for this blog post! She is a pattern-mixing master and my go-to source for pillows.īecause it can be paralyzing to determine a starting point, let’s start with what you like. Mixing patterns and creating color schemes is a loaded topic to write about because it depends on so many factors, and there’s *really* no right or wrong way to do it. ![]()
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