Your Favourite Styling Tool

Do you have any favourite item when it comes to modifying the decoration of your home?

You might always end up with cushions.  Decorating with cushions is an easy way to update your home’s look without spending too much money.

Following the Life & Style Agency concept, your space is mostly neutral colours. So, you can either opt for a bold colour scheme or a neutral one.

It all depends on your mood.

Selecting the colour palette for your cushions is the most important part. You need to go inside yourself and listen. How do you feel? Which effect would you like to achieve with the colours to be injected to your living space? How about your family members? Are they in the same mood? Be open minded and thoughtful about their specific needs. A balanced home atmosphere is the basis for a harmonious family life.

Identify a couple of accent colours that you’d like to bring in to generate the energy you all would like to feel. Choose your cushions in a couple of shades of this colour or varying patterns in the same tone.

Still no idea which colours work for you and your loved ones? Just go on a website of a known cushion supplier or a decoration shop nearby and select some fabrics suitable at first impression. Then order swatches to help you identify exactly which colours work. Throw them on the sofa or bed, stand back and take in the whole combination.  You'll know what works and what doesn't straight away.

To make it more interesting, you should experiment with multiple design styles in various textures. However, if this isn't your thing but think plains are going to look a tad boring then texture is key. Teaming together bolder designs with plain designs and subtle textures can create a 'harmonious' effect.  You can also introduce interest by choosing a selection of both large and small-scale designs and complement them alongside solid-colour cushions.

You can also mix and match across different cushion shapes and sizes. Cushions are available in all different types of shapes and sizes. Don’t be afraid to combine multiple variations to create the most eye-catching arrangement. Try and keep larger cushions in subtle patterned, neutral designs to the back of your display and to use smaller cushions with more intricate, livelier designs to the front.

Play about with the finish too, go for an oxford edge, with a piped cushion; a buttoned cushion with a plain and create a multi-sensory experience. The different sizes, finishes and colours help to bring together the whole room

Finally, you need to decide how many cushions you think you need and how to arrange them.

You want it to look comfortable without feeling like you’re going to be bolstered off the bottom! In my opinion, is important to stick to odd numbers in groups of 3 or 5. Grouping cushions in odd numbers is a more effective way to catch someone’s eye. It forces people to look around the grouping because of the lack of symmetry, its unexpected yet still a trick used by designers the world over. This can be further enhanced by grouping your cushions to one side of your sofa instead of arranging them symmetrically on either end.

Though, if your inner feeling tells you, you must create an interior that is organised to true perfection; even numbers and a symmetric arrangement might just work for you.

In case you need support streamlining your ideas or someone to help you chose the most wonderful cushions, please feel free to contact us. We offer flexible services including online consultations.

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