| Why Solid Colored Rooms Don't Work | | | | increasingly important for do it yourself home |
| When you're trying to decorate a room, especially a | | | | decorators to pay attention to the colors they are |
| bedroom, it's difficult to keep to a theme, especially | | | | purchasing and take pains to ensure the colors match |
| when you can't find everything you're searching for to | | | | up appropriately. |
| make the perfectly themed room. In that case, you | | | | For instance, if your area rug is a cobalt blue area rug |
| may be tempted to give up on the themed | | | | and your draperies are only slightly off from the shade |
| décor and head straight for Solid Colorsville, but | | | | of your area rug, then this won't be noticeable. |
| if you're going to go the route of solid colors in your | | | | However, if your couch pillows are also slightly off |
| room, you should be ready for the extra work ahead | | | | from the shade of your area rug but are not the same |
| that you will have to do to keep the colors looking right | | | | shade as the draperies, these differences will become |
| and matching up. | | | | apparent, especially as the draperies fade from |
| Each fabric reacts to color dyes differently, so | | | | maintenance and sun and your area rug fades due to |
| although you may find several pieces that are all | | | | use over time. |
| cobalt blue, the finished products may be different | | | | The other problem with creating a room that is based |
| shades, hues and depths of cobalt blue than you were | | | | solidly around one color is that one solid color can |
| prepared for. | | | | overwhelm a room, especially in an enclosed space, |
| For example, a blue area rug will change in shades | | | | such as a bedroom. If you bedroom is decorated in |
| depending on whether it is a wool area rug or a cotton | | | | solid cobalt blue and you also have a cobalt blue area |
| area rug. Each of these fabric types absorbs color | | | | rug, the room may make some visitors feel as if they |
| differently and will also remain colorfast for a different | | | | are drowning in the ocean. A solid colored room can |
| period of time. You can count on your wool area rug | | | | also look out of place in an open room that is |
| to hold fast to the blue dye much longer than the | | | | subjected to large amounts of sunlight. A room |
| cotton area rug. Additionally, the concentration of the | | | | decorated in light yellow or bright orange with an area |
| dye and the length of time it was applied as well as | | | | rug to match may blind visitors upon entry if the sun is |
| the intensity of the clean rinse on the fabric will also | | | | out in full forced and blazing in through the windows. |
| change the look of the color in the different fabrics. | | | | It is important to give your room a sense of depth, |
| Because wool, chenille, satin, silk, cotton and all other | | | | whether you choose to use solid colors or a theme to |
| fabrics retain dye in their own natural way, its | | | | decorate. |