Showing posts with label Cushions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cushions. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How to Brighten your Room using Orange Color Cushions?

How to Brighten your Room using Orange Color Cushions?

One method to easily brighten any room would be to add orange cushions. Orange is really a vibrant, vibrant, happy colour that may give a fun a little colour for an existing space. Orange is another warm colour that radiates positive energy right into a room that may otherwise lack colour or personality. You will find a number of ways to include orange cushions right into a room to actually make sure they are pop.

Orange and Brown

Orange and brown are two colours that actually work very well together. One idea would be to fresh paint a highlight wall brownish to highlight that colour. The next thing is to include the cushions on furniture within the room to create a beautiful orange contrast within the space.

Orange and Whitened

Orange looks great against whitened furniture, too. Many people have whitened, wicker furniture inside a sunroom or whitened patio furniture on their own decks. Using orange coloured cushions from the whitened can definitely result in the vibrant colour stick out and produce feelings of warm sunshine. This will make the cushions an ideal accessory for spaces where people typically lounge under the sun.

Add Orange round the Room

Also try this to embellish an area would be to tie the orange colour around the cushions to small splashes of orange round the room to own whole room a sense of warmth. Inside a bed room, choose bedding that has a little of orange to complement the cushions. Choose beautiful paintings with hints of orange to create the color pop from the walls and from the cushions.

Choose Designs around the Cushions

Brightening an area while using colour orange in your cushions does not mean stickling to fundamental orange materials. Rather, a terrific way to result in the room look better would be to choose cushions which include some design around the orange fabric. Floral prints featuring vibrant orange colours with yellows or vegetables are the ideal accent to illuminate an area. Busy materials scream high energy, making a room look more enjoyable and contemporary. Simple orange materials with small touches can produce a room look both vibrant and stylish simultaneously.

Use the Curtains

The curtains inside a space let in sun light as the vibrantly coloured cushions will give you brightness to some space, so it seems sensible to tie the 2 together. One method to do that would be to choose curtains for that home windows which have jumps of orange within the design. This can produce a natural look within the room because the light arriving the home windows and also the vibrantly coloured cushions works together to create the area vivid and vibrant.

Chairs and Sofas

To accessorise a full time income space within the home and then add colourful drama, use orange cushions around the sofa or on chairs. This can be to tie a room's look together, particularly if the sofa and chairs have different materials in it. The cushions will prove to add flair and drama towards the space while developing a natural, vibrant look that exudes happiness.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Books, beds and bathrooms


For me there's nothing nicer than a wall of books. Except my problem is I keep every book I ever get and, as I discovered during the unpacking, we have so many books - quite a few of which I don't know why I kept in the first place! And the sad thing is, second hand book shops are now pretty fussy about what they stock and even charities are being selective. So now I've made a pact to only keep ones I really, really liked and want to have on the shelves.


Here is a little corner of the study with flying ducks on the wall from Delilah Devine's Esty shop (aka Linda from Adelaide) who makes them from vintage wallpaper and eco ply. She also does flying horses! Have to point out another of homemade cushion and the old green phone I bought a while ago that our electrician has just spent ages on to get it working properly and restore its ring. Being the youthful age he is, he thought it rather quaint and couldn't get over how long it took to dial (I didn't like to tell him we had one of these when I was growing up!).


Through the door at the end of the bookshelves you get to the master ensuite - hence the continuation of the timber. I spent ages looking for bathroom mirror lights I liked (which hubby never quite understood!) and finally found these Italian numbers which fitted the bill nicely.






Then through the ensuite you get to the master bedroom (and another homemade cushion!).


And if you're lying there, you get to look here ...


Glad we went for the extra carpet underlay as the carpet is soooo comfy. And in case you're wondering the carpet is Cavalier Bremworth NZ wool and all the bedroom curtains are a sheer of some sort with a neutral blackout lining behind so you can get the best of all worlds: privacy, light and total darkness as required.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Views from Inside

Well, the camera has been doing overtime! While it does feel a little weird taking photos of what is now our home - rather than a work in progress - here are some shots of inside.


As an unconfident sewer, I have to point out the homemade turquoise velvet cushion - one of four I'm proud to say! The fabric was bought on a whim on a visit to Auckland last hols and it perfectly matches, as I had hoped, the rug.


Entrance to the living space and kitchen, capturing the view of the trees.


View from the deck through to the kitchen and dining space - plus an amazing floral creation of sunflowers and cabbages a friend made for me.


Kitchen/living wall niche painted in Resene Triple Masala.


The bathroom off the living room.


The wallpaper is from Laura Ashley if anyone's interested, bought on sale at an amazing $48 a roll which is a bargain in wallpaper-world!


Front door and stairwell detail. Finally the glass balustrades are in and are the correct measurements!


Am loving the sandstone wall but it does seem to attract the huntsmen! Although we have had two in the dishwasher so maybe there's just something about the house. Whatever it is, I'll have to warn our English visitors who are arriving in two weeks!

Until next time ...
Jx

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Homemade Cloth Cushions

There's been a lot of crafting going on here lately and I managed to make the two Cloth Fabric cushions for our bed without too much difficulty considering I've done nothing like this for about 25 years!!!



Well, I did sew one side the wrong way which needed unpicking and then some of the ribbon got caught up and that needed unpicking and re-sewing! But other than that, it went okay. Needless to say, daughter #1 helped with some of the sewing while I measured, cut, pinned and did the final sew.


I used offcuts of the lampshade fabric and then bits I'd bought as remnants.


For the backing I used Cloth Cream Hemp fabric and cream ribbon (I didn't want to attempt sewing zips!).




I think I could get into this cushion-making lark!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

DIY Lampshades

So ... I had a plain lampshade that I thought could do with a zshush.


And I bought another one so we could have two new bedside table lights.

I found some instructions on the Beach Vintage blog (because I am incapable of working out how to do these things on my own!).


I bought some fabric from Cloth Fabric (Kangaroo Paw in Surf on Cream), some cream ribbon and spray adhesive.


And began ...

It was trickier than I thought as the shades taper in slightly at the top so the fabric couldn't be cut on the straight and needed to wind around the shade so it wouldn't bubble when sprayed with adhesive.


The hot glue gun proved tricky too. I'd never used one before and didn't realise how quickly the glue set and can become lumpy if not let to spread. Cue: daughter #1 who is an expert and helped me glue on the ribbon.


Between us, the lampshades were done in no time and if you don't look too closely, they don't look too bad!



During the day and at night ...

I'm now going to make some cushions for the bed from Cloth Fabric remnant samples!