Softening Your Home With Round Shapes - Forms and Patterns to Warm Your Home
Round shapes add instant softness to your décor.
Pillows, chairs, coffee tables, area rugs and footstools come in round shapes and can be easily added to the more angular lines of modern decorating as well as any other décor you fancy.
Lights & Lamps: A central light in each room as an appropriately decorative round chandelier creates a softer look, especially if the lights are made to dim at different settings.
Rounded lamps give geometrical diversity to square end tables and look just as good sitting on rounded tables.
Coffee Tables: Coffee tables come in a wide range of sizes and shapes.
You can choose from cane, wood or metal frames that twist and turn in interesting ways.
Spools, spindles, elaborate curves in wood or metal...
There truly is no end to what can be done to "round" to bring it into modern design.
Glass for coffee table tops can be clear or tinted.
Commissioning someone to tint a tabletop for you is a great idea if you wish to match the tint to the colors in your décor.
Mirrors: A large, rounded mirror placed in a strategic place adds a round reflection and softens the room's appearance with a great success.
Place a rounded mirror opposite a large window with a fantastic view to bring the beautiful outdoors into your home.
Area Rugs: Round area rugs are another good way to soften the look of your home.
A large round rug as an "island" for your furniture is great for adding softness in one big sweep.
You might scatter a few smaller rugs in traffic areas or another large one in the center of a spacey kitchen.
You can buy round area rugs in your choice of several types of materials, patterns and colors.
Footstools: Rounded footstools and chairs soften instantly, especially when the colors are kept warm and light.
Round throw pillows tossed on couches and chairs have the same effect.
Choose from several design prints and textures to further customize them to your design theme.
Other Tips for Rounding Out Your Design Soften angular frames with fabric decorated in round prints.
Create a round backdrop for pictures on your wall.
With careful measuring, tracing and painting, a circle painted in a lighter color than the rest of the wall and then filled with hanging pictures is a great way to get creative and soften at the same time.
You might choose to have a mural painted in your circle or fill it with round frames.
Pillows, chairs, coffee tables, area rugs and footstools come in round shapes and can be easily added to the more angular lines of modern decorating as well as any other décor you fancy.
Lights & Lamps: A central light in each room as an appropriately decorative round chandelier creates a softer look, especially if the lights are made to dim at different settings.
Rounded lamps give geometrical diversity to square end tables and look just as good sitting on rounded tables.
Coffee Tables: Coffee tables come in a wide range of sizes and shapes.
You can choose from cane, wood or metal frames that twist and turn in interesting ways.
Spools, spindles, elaborate curves in wood or metal...
There truly is no end to what can be done to "round" to bring it into modern design.
Glass for coffee table tops can be clear or tinted.
Commissioning someone to tint a tabletop for you is a great idea if you wish to match the tint to the colors in your décor.
Mirrors: A large, rounded mirror placed in a strategic place adds a round reflection and softens the room's appearance with a great success.
Place a rounded mirror opposite a large window with a fantastic view to bring the beautiful outdoors into your home.
Area Rugs: Round area rugs are another good way to soften the look of your home.
A large round rug as an "island" for your furniture is great for adding softness in one big sweep.
You might scatter a few smaller rugs in traffic areas or another large one in the center of a spacey kitchen.
You can buy round area rugs in your choice of several types of materials, patterns and colors.
Footstools: Rounded footstools and chairs soften instantly, especially when the colors are kept warm and light.
Round throw pillows tossed on couches and chairs have the same effect.
Choose from several design prints and textures to further customize them to your design theme.
Other Tips for Rounding Out Your Design Soften angular frames with fabric decorated in round prints.
Create a round backdrop for pictures on your wall.
With careful measuring, tracing and painting, a circle painted in a lighter color than the rest of the wall and then filled with hanging pictures is a great way to get creative and soften at the same time.
You might choose to have a mural painted in your circle or fill it with round frames.