You’ve put a lot of work into determining a color scheme for the rooms in your home and implementing it. Now it’s time to tackle the curtains to complete the color flow and visual aesthetic. And that can be just as challenging as getting the color scheme into the room. You need to take into consideration what color you want to emphasize or tone down, what you want to match, or if a pattern is more appropriate. Here’s a look at how to match curtains with wall colors and finish off the look of the room.
Consider a Color Match to Your Walls
Matching curtains to wall color instead of the furnishings creates a complementary effect on the room and won’t draw attention away from the rest of the objects in the room. It also gives you the opportunity to get the wall color to “jump off” the walls and come further into the room without being overwhelming. For a little variety, go a shade up or down, or choose a slightly different tone to break up the color. Going this route makes the color visually continuous, but the movement of the drapes prevents the room from looking static or walled-in.
Play With Patterns
Using patterns for curtain color matching seems a little counterintuitive, but if you do it right, the room becomes a vibrant and interesting place. In the event your room is neutral, look into curtains with a burn-out pattern, or use a sheer with a self-contrasting pattern to create visual texture. Is the room full of patterns and colors already? Avoid using a solid color as it dulls the energy of the patterns. Look at prints with small repeating patterns or even gingham with the dominant colors of your room.
You’ve put a lot of work into determining a color scheme for the rooms in your home and implementing it. Now it’s time to tackle the curtains to complete the color flow and visual aesthetic. And that can be just as challenging as getting the color scheme into the room. You need to take into consideration what color you want to emphasize or tone down, what you want to match, or if a pattern is more appropriate. Here’s a look at how to match curtains with wall colors and finish off the look of the room.
Consider a Color Match to Your Walls
Matching curtains to wall color instead of the furnishings creates a complementary effect on the room and won’t draw attention away from the rest of the objects in the room. It also gives you the opportunity to get the wall color to “jump off” the walls and come further into the room without being overwhelming. For a little variety, go a shade up or down, or choose a slightly different tone to break up the color. Going this route makes the color visually continuous, but the movement of the drapes prevents the room from looking static or walled-in.
Play With Patterns
Using patterns for curtain color matching seems a little counterintuitive, but if you do it right, the room becomes a vibrant and interesting place. In the event your room is neutral, look into curtains with a burn-out pattern, or use a sheer with a self-contrasting pattern to create visual texture. Is the room full of patterns and colors already? Avoid using a solid color as it dulls the energy of the patterns. Look at prints with small repeating patterns or even gingham with the dominant colors of your room.
Be Careful With Matching the Floor
You might be tempted to use color matching curtains with your floor. On the surface, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea, but you have to ask yourself what’s going to happen when you put up curtains for this purpose. There’s a very real risk of matching the floor color so well that it looks like the floor has come up to the walls and creates a blocking effect. Think of a window boarded up with plywood for an idea of what might happen. It’s not impossible to match curtains with flooring, just tricky, and it may be something you want to avoid.
Consider the Lighting Effect of the Fabric
Curtain materials are designed to let in or keep out light. There’s a real risk that the fabric becomes dull in certain lights and drains the room of the color instead of enhancing it. Make sure that the fabric you pick when color-matching curtains is going to work well with the existing lighting in the room.
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