Cushions add colour to dull furniture
Cushions are versatile accessories for any home. Piles of them add comfort to a bedroom or sitting room. Creatively placed, they can be used to transform a sofa into a bed while in the bedroom they will create a comfortable, relaxing zone.
By Harriet Birungi
Cushions are versatile accessories for any home. Piles of them add comfort to a bedroom or sitting room. Creatively placed, they can be used to transform a sofa into a bed while in the bedroom they will create a comfortable, relaxing zone.
Apart from the obvious comfort they give, cushions play a vital part in creating a colour scheme in a house says Pauline Butagira, an interior designer and events manager.
“Cushions can be the ultimate way of ensuring colour harmony in your house. When the right fabric is used, the consistency in colour is maintained in the least expensive way,†says Butagira.
However, to come up with the colour choice for the cushions, it is important that one follows the curtains.
This is because the most dominant patterns appear on the curtain fabric, perhaps as bold floral design with upholstery in a single colour.
In this case, the fabric for cushions and curtains should be the same so that the pattern on sofas and chairs is tied in the colour scheme.
Alternatively, you may choose cushions in different plain colours to pick up on those in the curtains. This works well when you pick a stripped fabric with matching colours. It is an excellent way to echo the patterned upholstery.
Adding a cushion or two is an inexpensive way to give the room a new look. By placing two cushions on a plain sofa or bed in a room where the paint is a neutral shade the whole room is transformed.
Also, using cushions is a good way to give an accent of colour that can lift an otherwise monotonous scheme. In rooms where you have a certain shade of chairs, similar to that of walls and curtains, it is the cushions that will add a sparkle of interests, she explains.
And in adjoining rooms, rather than repeating the colour scheme from one room to the other, you can achieve continuity by a well-chosen mixture of cushions. In a monochromatic scheme, try to choose lots of cushions in varying textures.
For example, cushions rich in blues, pinks, yellow and reds, echo the colour of roses or red which are very common in curtains.
So the best way to bring all the shades of colour together in a home without spending a lot, advises Butagira, is to use cushions whose fabric patterns can be identified by looking at curtains and the paint of rooms adjoining each other.
Cushions are versatile accessories for any home. Piles of them add comfort to a bedroom or sitting room. Creatively placed, they can be used to transform a sofa into a bed while in the bedroom they will create a comfortable, relaxing zone.
Apart from the obvious comfort they give, cushions play a vital part in creating a colour scheme in a house says Pauline Butagira, an interior designer and events manager.
“Cushions can be the ultimate way of ensuring colour harmony in your house. When the right fabric is used, the consistency in colour is maintained in the least expensive way,†says Butagira.
However, to come up with the colour choice for the cushions, it is important that one follows the curtains.
This is because the most dominant patterns appear on the curtain fabric, perhaps as bold floral design with upholstery in a single colour.
In this case, the fabric for cushions and curtains should be the same so that the pattern on sofas and chairs is tied in the colour scheme.
Alternatively, you may choose cushions in different plain colours to pick up on those in the curtains. This works well when you pick a stripped fabric with matching colours. It is an excellent way to echo the patterned upholstery.
Adding a cushion or two is an inexpensive way to give the room a new look. By placing two cushions on a plain sofa or bed in a room where the paint is a neutral shade the whole room is transformed.
Also, using cushions is a good way to give an accent of colour that can lift an otherwise monotonous scheme. In rooms where you have a certain shade of chairs, similar to that of walls and curtains, it is the cushions that will add a sparkle of interests, she explains.
And in adjoining rooms, rather than repeating the colour scheme from one room to the other, you can achieve continuity by a well-chosen mixture of cushions. In a monochromatic scheme, try to choose lots of cushions in varying textures.
For example, cushions rich in blues, pinks, yellow and reds, echo the colour of roses or red which are very common in curtains.
So the best way to bring all the shades of colour together in a home without spending a lot, advises Butagira, is to use cushions whose fabric patterns can be identified by looking at curtains and the paint of rooms adjoining each other.