Colorful Fabric Shades
Color is a powerful thing, especially in interior design. Color can influence the mood and ambiance of a room, elevate design and help harmonize interior spaces, and color can physically affect the people in the space. It's essential to personalize your color palette to create areas in your home that are inviting to be in, appropriate for the activities conducted there, and in line with your home's interior design aesthetic. If you're looking to add color to your room, one feature with a range of hues to choose from and sophisticated use of color is new fabric shades.
In the Design Studio™ collection of fabric shades by Hunter Douglas, homeowners will find hundreds of fabrics to choose from and an exclusive line of designer prints by renowned textile artist Rebecca Atwood within that catalog. Author of two popular books on interior design (Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home and Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home), Atwood brings her expertise on color play to your home with a line of seven handcrafted fabrics each available in several hues. In addition to the choices for pattern and color, you can use the fabrics in the Design Studio collection to fabricate several types of custom fabric shades.
Types of Design Studio™ Fabric Shades
When it comes to the world of soft fabric shades, you can see them as being part of one of two groups: free-flowing or sculpted. While both styles use fabrics as their primary building component, sometimes even the same fabrics, there are substantial aesthetic differences between the treatments. Choosing different options can appreciably affect the perception of colors or patterns being used and the overall feel the window fashion elicits.
Free Flowing Fabric Shades
- Drapery: Atwood's modern watercolor technique adds a subtle sense of movement to her patterns drawn out beautifully in drapery, whose flowing design emboldens the fabric's aquatic motif with a graceful sense of grandeur.
- Side Panels: Great for framing windows, side panels have the elegant flow of drapes but never infringe on your view. Choose one of Atwood's bolder uses of color, like Tree of Life, for these fabric shades to draw the eye.
Sculpted Fabric Shades
- Roman Shades: The sculpted folds of Roman shades offer a refined use of fabric wherein the textile is showcased, and its color is enrichened by the depth, dimensions, and textures of Roman shades.
- Roller Shades: If you want to use pattern and color on your new fabric shades, roller shades offer a seamless front to showcase prints or patterns in their true form.
Fabric Embellishments
- Custom Valances: If you have custom fabric shades made, buy some extra fabric by the yard to have coordinating accessories made like a custom valance. Valances not only help to give fabric shades a polished final look by hiding any hardware, but they also provide another opportunity to introduce color to your interior design scheme.
Contact Us
Ready to add color to your home with the unmistakable textile stylings of Rebecca Atwood? Contact Kao's Pacific Interiors team to have your next set of window treatments custom-made from her exclusive Design Studio collection. Kao's Pacific Interiors is located near the City of Industry, California, and serves Orange County, LA County, Yorba Linda, Brea, Diamond Bar, Irvine, and the City of Industry, CA. Request a consultation today.