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How To Be Mad About Your House
Mixing patterns and textures
with KATE WATSON-SMYTH — Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.
Lesson 23 of 29
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Putting patterns and textures together can seem quite intimidating. Kate demonstrates how it isn't that hard to do and shows you how to make your own rooms with harmonious patterns and textures.
From the Lesson Workbook
Mixing Patterns and Textures
It is important to be bold when mixing colours and patterns. Choose colours that complement each other. As long as they have the same base colour and are broadly similar, that is fine.
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A key step is ordering samples. To really understand the texture, colour, and feel of a material, you need to interact with it physically and engage with them.
Your Assignment
Explore a variety of patterned, printed, and textured fabrics or different weights and weaves. Get ordering these samples so that you can physically interact and engage with them. This will allow you to get a better understanding of how they will fit in to your home.
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Your Instructor
Kate Watson-Smyth
Design expert, journalist, best-selling author. Creator of UK's #1 interiors blog and podcast.
Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning design journalist and author of the best-selling Mad About The House book series. She has spent the last 20 years writing extensively on interiors and design for publications including the Financial Times, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. Her home has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Elle Decoration and Livingetc, and her acclaimed website, MadAboutTheHouse.com, is officially voted the UK’s No1 interiors blog.
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