10 Ways to Start Decorating a Room from Scratch
For our Decorating Dilemmas column, we can’t even count the number of times we’ve gotten this question: “I just moved into my new home, and I have no idea where to start!” That’s because decorating a room completely from scratch is intimidating! You have no where to start and yet so many choices to make. We pulled together some easy jumping off point so you can start decorating your room from scratch:
1. Find a Piece of Artwork You Love
When we design the rooms for our catalog, we have the same dilemma. We have a completely blank canvas with endless possibilities. More often than not, we’ll use a piece of artwork as a starting point. If you look closely at this piece by our Exclusive Artist Rick Reinert, you’ll see there are some persimmon oranges and lots of different shades of blue. We wanted to emphasize those colors in the painting, so we used them for our upholstery, pillows, and a bright blue rug.
2. Start with a Rug
Our Catherine Rug is one of our all time favorites because it’s subtle but has some really pretty shades of light blue. We wanted to really draw out those icy blues for this living room, so we chose complementary fabrics and artwork. Our new Cleo Glacier and Minsk Glacier fabrics pair perfectly.
3. Find a Fabulous Fabric
Large scale florals, especially ones with a black background, are really trending for 2017 so we used our new Beatrice Black Fabric as our guide for this space. Just like the fabric, we chose mostly black and white pieces, but if you look closely, you’ll see shades of purple in this fabric. We brought out those touches of lavender in the fabric with our Shiloh Spool Chair and pillows.
