Samples of Interior Decorating Color Schemes

Today's interior decorating books and software are excellent resources to help you choose a palette of decorator colours for your house interior. By thumbing through the pages of decorator books or content in an interior decorating software program, you'll find some excellent examples of successful color combinations to help you with your choices. Theme decorating is a popular direction, such as southwestern, beach house, tropical, art deco, retro, french country, and of course modern and contemporary themes. All of these themes have colors that are primary and complement different architectural styles.

Using Decorator Fabric

Another option is to let your favorite fabrics guide you to find color rich schemes that tie in with your current home's furnishings.

Ribbed chenille upholstery fabric offers relaxed style, durability, and machine washability.

This fabric is called modern twist black and it is an easy care 55% cotton and 45% polyester blend. It is an imported upholstery fabric.

Color is an amazing medium to create decor to emphasize style and mood. To help you visualize here are a few decorator fabrics (shown on the left) combined with complementary colors to give of schemes for home decorating. Some fun fabrics to match are cotton Hampton Floral Prints, denim twills, luscious velvets, french country paisleys and florals, damask and jacquard prints, linen, and exquisite Thai silk fabrics. Wholesale upholstery fabric is a great choice to work with for slipcover fabrics and creating all your interior accessories, like pillows and curtains. Here are few color combinations in solid shades to give you an idea:

Here you see a heavyweight sierra denim fabric made from ten-ounce denim twill. Shades of yellow are a natural complement.

This is a cotton duck red decorator fabric which is a soft, breathable, and durable cotton. It is a wonderful year-round fabric.

Cotton duck is soft, breathable and durable 100% cotton upholstery fabric that is wonderful year-round and retains color beautifully. It comes in quite an array of colors.

Beautiful new luxury suede slipcovers are actually softer than the real thing, with the same luxurious texture, nap and finish. Remember this color as well as other luxury suede colors are also available by the yard.

Madras teal is a wonderful machine washable poly/acrylic blend fabric with a refreshing cool, watery, jeweltone feel.

Cotton duck is soft, breathable and durable 100% cotton upholstery fabric that is wonderful year-round and retains color beautifully. It comes in quite an array of colors.

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This is just a small sampling of the lovely designer fabrics perfect for your furniture slipcovers, drapery, and other decorating ideas. Weather you find inspiration from home and garden magazines or have the latest and greatest interior decorating software, be sure and try taking a sample of your favorite decorator fabric to the paint store to find shades that work with your decorating theme.

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