Designer Tips and Tricks for How to Decorate with Different Textures

Decorate the rooms in your home using a variety of textures to create a feeling of warmth. 

The use of multiple textures is especially important in a monochromatic room (a room decorated in all one color, such as all white) so the room does not feel dull and boring. 

Decorating with many textures will also make a sterile feeling room feel more interesting and cozy. 

Here are some designer tips and tricks for how to decorate a room with different textures.

 

Designer tips and tricks for how to deocrate with different texturesphoto courtesy of kaboompics.com/photo/4192/beautiful-vintage-living-room-interior

Hard and Soft
Designers like to mix both hard and soft textures when decorating your home. 

You can have a hard coffee table with a soft sofa, a hard wood floor with a soft rug on top, a hard bowl with soft balls of yarn, or soft drapes with a hard curtain rod.

 

Shiny and Dull
Designers also us both shiny and dull textures to add charm and character to a room. 

Decorate using a shiny metal lamp with a dull fabric lamp shade, a shiny chrome chair with dull worn leather upholstery, a shiny ceramic sculpture on a dull wooden end table, or a shiny mirror with a dull wooden frame.

 

Rough and Smooth
Designers use a mixture of rough and smooth textures to create an interesting room. 

You decorate with rough grass cloth wallpaper with a smooth acrylic table, rough pine cones in a smooth wooden bowl, smooth magazines in a rough wood basket, a smooth rug on top of a rough stone floor, rough exposed wood beams with a smooth ceiling light fixture, a smooth piece of framed art hung on a rough exposed brick wall, or rough logs in a smooth metal bucket.

More designer favorite textural items include bubbly glass, hammered metal, drippy wax candles, embossed leather, enameled furniture, fuzzy faux fur, glossy and matte photo art, a knitted blanket, anything with a patina, a thick shag rug, silky sheets, and velvety curtains.

 

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