Patriotic Decor

What better way to update your home and show off your national pride than to incorporate patriotic home décor into your living space? By using a patriotic decorating theme, you can proudly display your patriotism while at the same time updating the look of your home with a popular design trend.

Patriotic design elements can be incorporated into any room of your home. You can easily build an entire room’s decor around a patriotic theme, or you can simply incorporate individual patriotic home décor pieces into your current décor as you see fit.

Patriotic Décor in the Kitchen
The kitchen is probably the most popular room in the home for showing off one’s patriotic spirit through decorating. Patriotic design elements lend themselves very well to this style. A wallpaper border with a patriotic theme can be a great way to set the stage.

It is easy to find curtains, dish towels, tablecloths, placemats, plates, tablecloths, wall hangings, and many other types of kitchenware that reflect patriotic themes. Whether you prefer a bold stars and stripes approach to decorating with a patriotic flair, or if you like the Americana and folk art style, you can create a fabulous kitchen environment with patriotic home décor.

Patriotic Home Décor in Your Sunroom
Since many people associate patriotic colors and designs with summertime and cookouts, the sunroom is one of the most popular locations for patriotic décor. Bright shades of red, white, and blue are very appropriate for open and sunny sunroom spaces. These rooms lend themselves well to casual design elements, such as white wicker furniture with stars and stripes seat covers, patriotic folk art wall hangings, and clear Lucite glassware and dinnerware with a splashy stars and stripes pattern.


Bringing the Patriotic Spirit to Your Bedroom
One of the best ways to bring patriotic design elements into your bedroom is with a traditional quilt set. Quilt sets make beautiful finishing touches on dark wood four-poster bed frames reminiscent of the early days of American history. They lend a genuine look and feel to even modern furniture designed to replicate antique Early American pieces.

No matter what the pattern, quilts are reminiscent of the colonial times. By selecting a quilt that incorporates patriotic colors of red, white, and blue, along with a star design theme, it is easy to bring patriotic design into your sleeping quarters. A cane back rocking chair, pewter candleholders and folk art wall hangings are the ideal patriotic complements to your quilt set.

Incorporating Patriotic Décor Into Your Home
The key with introducing patriotic home décor into your home is not to go overboard with bold colors and patterns. You probably don’t want to paint the walls of your bedroom red or your kitchen cabinets navy blue. Use the bold colors sparingly
And wisely, and you’ll end up with a beautiful color palette and decorating scheme that is both attractive and patriotic.

By: Mary White

How Light Affects Color

Color, as we perceive it, is controlled by light and therefore, will always be affected by it. This can complicate colors you choose for your next window treatment because the fabrics you choose might cast off a different light in your room when storm clouds gather versus when the sun is shining bright.



It's always important to consider how your interior colors will reflect natural light based on the climate you live in, which may also change with the seasons.

Light changes each minute and hour of the day. Depending which way your room's windows are facing can greatly affect how light transforms the color from your window treatments.

For instance, if your room has a window facing south, then on sunny days you may find that those bright hues can add different colors to your fabrics and other room interiors. The opposite is true with windows facing other directions.

Quick Guide to window exposure & natural light quality
* East-facing windows: warm yellowy sunlight before noon
* West-facing windows: warm orange-red sunlight after noon
* South-facing windows: warm orange-yellow sunlight all day
* North-facing windows: no direct sunlight, cool bluish light all day

From ADO Treatments Trends magazine

Color Decisions

Deciding what colors you want for your windows is only the first step because there are millions of colors to choose from within the "base" colors. In other words, whittling your color choice down to blue still leaves you with many variations of the color blue from which you can choose. Luckily, fabrics offer lots of colorful options that you can coordinate as well as combining patterns and textures too!

Colors: Hot and Cold
A color can be defined as "warm" or "cool" depending on where it falls within the basic color spectrum and in regards to your interior spaces.

Warm colors like orange, yellow and red exude sunlight hues and can make a room or window have a very warming effect. Warm colors can be used to make objects or surfaces feel closer together.

Cool colors include moonlight blues, whites, mauves and violets. They are used to help expand your room and window space and project light from a window into a room's space.

Colors that Complement
Colors can naturally work well together on a window and within your room decor. When considering fabric colors and options for your next window treatment, consider paring fabric colors with you paints, wall coverings, carpets and accessories for a truly complementary interior scheme.

Neutralize
Neutral colors on a window can really enhance your interiors and provide added comfort and warmth to a room. If you think neutral colors aren't colorful enough, consider adding decorative trim.

From ADO Trends Treatment

Jaclyn Smith Fabrics COMING SOON to Fabric Farms Interiors!!

Jaclyn Smith has a new line of home decor fabrics and Fabric Farms Interiors will be able to order these fabrics for you! We expect the samples to be here in about one month.

Window Furnishings or Window Dressings?

If you're considering a window treatment upgrade in your home, consider the difference between window dressings and window furnishings.

Hard window treatments including blinds, shutters, screens and shades are more like window furniture in that they're made of hard woods and/or tougher materials. They are primarily customized to fit inside your window frames in order to assume the window's shape.

If you've chosen window furnishings to block out your light sources, you can combine them with drapery fabrics in order to soften the atmosphere of your room while still providing the privacy you need.

Window dressing involve unique designs and color-coordinated fabrics with lush trimmings and beads, or fabric panels and shades. Window dressings always consist of fabrics whose colors and patterns will make a substantial impact on your home decor as well as your style and personality.

From ADO Treatment Trends magazine