Your Handmade Home Magazine October 2017

FABRICS AND TEXTURES
Fabrics and textures are vital to making or breaking a cohesive theme in a room.
Oriental silks and burlap, for example, rarely go well together. The goal is to get a
wide variety of textures to add interest to the room, yet provide a cohesive living
space where no one texture or fabric jars you out of the warm, inviting feeling of
the space. Autumn-inspired textures include burlap, wicker, wood, leather, leaves,
dried corn (I highly recommend ornamental / calico corn for its multicolored
appearance), rough-hewn stone, dried flowers, quilts, plaids, and flannels. Combining
these different textures throughout the room will add interest and diversity
while maintaining the rustic, luxurious intent of the room.
One such example is Ashley Furniture’s Amantipoint
Duvet Cover Set. A cool, neutral handwritten
pattern, it will enhance the room by
bringing personality and design to the bed
while complementing the room’s decor.
POPS OF COLOR
There are four different methods for combining cohesive color into your room:
Neutral-Natural
Neutral-natural colors include mainly natural elements – aged wood,
distressed wood, stone, wicker, brick, ivory, light greys, and other neutral colors
and textures. The goal is to have a neutral color base to your room and add
naturally neutral elements to enhance the beauty throughout the room.
Classic Autumn
Classic autumn colors are those we most readily associate with autumn: umber,
orange, rust, brown, maroon, and other similar fall colors. Some of these may be
dark and dramatic; others may be light and bright. The choice between dark and
light tones of these classic colors depends only on the feel you want for your room,
which is an incredibly personal choice.