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Tag Archives: Clarke & Clarke
How to Incorporate Radiant Orchid into your Home: What Colors Pair Best
Radiant Orchid is 2014’s Pantone Color of the Year. This gorgeous hue makes a statement whichever way you use it, alone or combined with complementary colors. Check out our Radiant Orchid Color Breakdown:
With Blues
Blues, ranging from teal to turquoise, are complementary to Radiant Orchid. Anything in the blue-green family will work because it falls on the opposite side of the color wheel. When colors from these positions on the wheel are combined, it creates a striking visual effect that provides contrast to a room. The dining room’s wall and chair fabric color below work well with the teal painting and accessories, while the bedroom’s warm walls work better with the turquoise silk drapery & striped tablecloth.
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With Goldenrod Yellow
It seems almost natural that Radiant Orchid, a hue related to the purple family, should pair with gold–It’s the color combination that royalty have been wearing for years! Deviate from tradition by using the Color of the Year with a deeper goldenrod yellow. It’s both playful and elegant at once. We like the idea of picking up the same gilded hue in picture frames, too.
With Pinks
Shades of pink coupled with Radiant Orchid virtually gives an updated monochromatic look (another trend for 2014!). Why is this?–Pinks are right next to purples on the color wheel, so many of their undertones are similar, making them meld well together. Vary up the textures and shades (think hot pink & lavender tones), then throw in a little pattern to provide visual depth.
With Orange-Reds
The preppy meets edgy look is in right now, and nothing says it like two bright colors used together (Lilly Pulitzer had it down pat). Neon orange with a red tint looks stunning with the expressive Color of 2014. Temper the duo with accents of black and white, whether its in a geometric drapery or black/white photographs on the wall.
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Pantone Color of the Year 2014: Radiant Orchid
Pantone’s Color of the Year, Radiant Orchid
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#FabricFriday: New Years DIY Tips
Happy #FabricFriday! Customize your New Year’s Eve party hats by gluing scraps of leftover fabric to hats that you buy at the dollar store. Have fun with shapes, or cover the whole thing!
Get the Look > Clarke & Clarke Ditsy rose – Chintz – Price Per Yard $41.75
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Antique Chic Decorating
From luxe to homespun, antique decorating can come in many forms. Check out these three ways to decorate using antiqued/distressed elements:
Luxe Distressed
Walls that look as if they’ve been around for years have vintage charm to them. Recreate this room with a distressed stone slab wallpaper and contrast it with luxurious fabrics and patterns like silk, velvet, and paisley. Here, the upholstered headboard and pillows create softness that balance out the shabby-chic walls.
Warm & Cozy Cottage Nook
Create a warm and cozy nook for reading with trompe l-oeil distressed brick wallpaper in an off-white hue and layer upon layer of plaid fabric. Top off the look with an antique bench and a few personal mementos for provincial allure.
Unexpected Industrial
Antiqued or distressed walls can add warmth to an industrial space that has angular lines. Mix old and new/soft and hard together with antique dining chairs covered in a flocked damask fabric and satin drapes.
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#WallpaperWednesday: Exposed Brick Effect
3 Ideas for Decorating a Small Terrace
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Decorating with Trellis Patterns Inspired by Exotic Locations
India, Morocco, and Turkey favor the trellis pattern in decor. Check out the cool & exotic trellis designs from these three countries and how to get the look:
India
Many trellis patterns in India are built into the architectural structure of homes. They are often used in the arches of doorways and on the ceiling, but also on the floor and in furniture (like the lattice table and bench below) . Get the look by placing an arch of trellis wallpaper over a doorway or upholster a couch in a lattice-patterned fabric, then add in rich saturated colors to the room.
Morocco
Moroccan decor is all about layering details and patterns. Trellis designs are combined throughout the room on doors, walls, drapery, pillows, and even fireplaces. Try a creamy trellis paper on the walls or pair brown quatrefoil drapery with damask bedding on a canopy bed.
Turkey
Turkish decor tends to use intricate and more detailed trellis designs that often incorporate flowers, leaves, and trees. Get the look of these elaborate tile walls with a wallpaper panel featuring similar designs, like those from Martyn Lawrence Bullard’s new wallpaper designs inspired by traveling to exotic destinations.
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India: The Textile Capital of the World
Decor Inspired by Global Hot Spots
Trellis Patterns Invade the Home
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#FabricFriday: Ikats In The Sun
Bring Moroccan influence into your home with a bright Ikat fabric in rich purple, pink and orange.
Clarke & Clarke – Lombok – Sunset – Price Per Yard $45.50
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Budget-Friendly Decorating
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Often, unique wallpaper designs come at a high price, but such is not the case with York wallpapers. The über-affordable manufacturer incorporates specialty materials and effects into its designs—like the glitter-encrusted Westchester CW9201 damask—for papers that are truly special, yet inexpensive. Save even more by using a bold York pattern for an accent wall instead of a whole room. |
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Known for its high-quality and low-priced fabrics, Greenhouse is a top choice when decorating on a budget. The company’s wide range of upholstery and drapery patterns inspired by Southern style allow you to completely redecorate without breaking the bank! From outdoor fabrics like GH 11381 – Mojito to paisley fabrics like GH 10080 – Spa, Greenhouse is an ideal choice for variety at a great value. |
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Take a trip to the beach, where sea gulls caw and waves lap at the sandy coast with Clarke & Clarke’s Maritime Prints Collection. With all of the fabrics from the collection coming in under $40, these patterns are perfect for adding summer flair to your home or beach house. We particularly love Seabirds – Marine, which is fit with birds and delicate polka dots. To save even more, forgo the upholstery and slipcover furniture, instead. |
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Getting the oh-so-trendy eclectic look requires mixing several patterns together in one space. Save time and money with Dwell Studio’s Global Modern Luxe collection, which features current takes on coordinating suzanis, ikats, graphic prints, and textures at a great value. We find the combination of Ogee – Brindle, Shifted Stripe – Citrine and Gate Stitch – Espresso to be divine. |
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#Wallpaper Wednesday: Sun Rooms
Happy #WallpaperWednesday everyone! Keep your sun room bright all year ’round with a large blue floral wallpaper.
Clarke & Clarke – Rosita – Aqua $106.75 price per roll
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Fashionable Florals
Fashionable Florals
Floral fabrics and wallpapers are taking 2013 by storm. From bright colors and bold patterns to delicate stems in muted pastels, florals infuse traditional and contemporary decor with a femininity and grace.
Clarke & Clarke’s Floribunda Fabric and Wallcovering collections are the latest offering from this trend setting manufacturer. Matching fabrics and wallpapers make these coordinating collections a must have for stress free decorating.
Get the look of this enticing living room with Clarke & Clarke’s “Floribunda – Sunset” Fabric and Wallpaper. Complement the matching “Floribunda” fabric and wallpaper with orange and purple striped “Ferdinand” drapes and an ottoman upholstered with the geometric “Jasper.”
Love the patterns but prefer cooler colors? Hang Clarke & Clarke’s flocked leopard paper “Leopold Wallcovering – Aqua” or the photographic print “Papillon Wallcovering – Aqua” for a stylish and sophisticated space.
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Left to Right: Ferdinand – Sunset | Empress Rose – Mulberry | Floribunda – Sunset | Leopold – Pewter | Jasper – Sunset
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Left to Right: Ferdinand Wallcovering – Orchid | Floribunda Wallcovering – Sunset | Leopold Wallcovering – Aqua | Papillon Wallcovering – Aqua | Empress Rose Wallcovering – Black/White
Turn Your Sitting Room Into A Greenhouse
Greenhouse’s latest collection, Purple Garden, showcases floral fabrics in bright fucshia and lime green colors. These exotic prints brighten a room and transform a sun room into a botanical garden.
Get the look of this vivacious sitting room by upholstering a loveseat and matching chair with Greenhouse’s watercolor floral print “203452S – Raspberry” and trellis “2034495 – Lemon Grass.”
Vine flowers, elephants, and monkeys add a feeling of whimsy and pull in accents of red and violet in Greenhouses’s twist on a Chinoiserie toile, “203455S – Mulberry.” This stunning pattern is perfect for drapery or upholstery. Use a coordinating trellis to complete the look of an indoor garden.
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Left to Right: A6202 – White Tea | 203449S – Lemon Grass | 203455S – Mulberry | 203454S – Fuschia | 203452S – Raspberry
A Dream Garden
Designer Charlotte Moss is famous for her use of floral fabrics. In her Hamptons home, pictured here, Moss pairs different floral fabrics and wallpapers for a lady like room befitting an English country manor. Recreate this look in your own bedroom or dressing room using fabrics from Moss’s Fabricut collection and floral wallpapers from York.
The trick to achieving a layered floral look is scale variation. Much like varying the sizes of blooms in a bouquet, be sure that the scale of the flowers on the walls differs from those on the drapes and bedding.
Moss’s “Claire” looks great as the headboard and bed skirt while “Lucie” blossoms as the drapes and as accent pillows. Balance the floral fabrics with Duralee’s pink checked fabric “32116-4” as accent chairs and a canopy.
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Left to Right: Floral Toss – GP7363 | 32116 – 4 Pink | Claire – Othello | Lucie – Carnation | Hydrangea – AK7447 | Hydrangea Border – AK7438B
Looking Ahead
Kravet’s Weaves Guaranteed collection is a welcome addition to our New York City Design Room. This coordinated collection of suzani, ikat, stripe, geometric, diamond, and small print fabrics in fresh inspiring colors will easily transform any room. Made in the United States and treated with a Teflon finish, these durable fabrics are guaranteed in stock. Check back this Spring for decorating tips using this versatile collection.
Redecorating and need some advice? Stop in to our Design Room to select fabrics in person with the help of our Design Room Specialist.
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Left to Right: 31422 – 35 | 31371 – 313 | 31392 – 316| 32554 – 1611 | 32534 – 1611 | 32533 – 116
Get Inspired By The Master Of Florals, Designer Charlotte Moss!
Lavish & Luxurious Velvet
Lavish & Luxurious Velvet
Velvet fabrics and wallpapers are prolific in interior design this season. This week, DecoratorsBest had the opportunity to tour Traditional Home’s Fifth Annual Holiday House, a designer showhouse in New York City that benefits the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Nearly every lavish room incorporated or featured velvets, in particular cut velvet fabrics and wallpapers. Upholstered on chairs or walls, or hung as flocked velvet wallpaper, velvet was used by almost every designer to add elegance and sophistication throughout the house.
One of our favorite rooms at the holiday house was a Girl’s Night Out themed vanity room designed by Claudia Giselle Design LLC. This small but glamorous powder room was decked out with Beacon Hill’s silk and linen damask “Mon Cheri” upholstered onto the walls creating the luminous appearance of flocked velvet wallpaper. Giselle added a dressing chair upholstered in Beacon Hill’s solid black “Rosario Velvet” and feminine drapes made from a soft blush pink velvet. The variation in color and texture of the velvets gives this classical style an updated look with a cozy feel.
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Left to Right: Luxury Velvet – Blush | Rosario Velvet – Noir | Mon Cheri – Silver |Rhythm – Espresso| Douceur – Vintage Pink
Layering Cut Velvet
Originally made from silk fibers, velvet is woven using an intricate and time consuming technique that requires a large quantity of thread. Because this process is so laborious, velvet has become synonymous with luxury. Dating back to the Renaissance, velvet was as an expression of power and wealth. Today velvet is made from both natural and man-made fibers that are more durable and affordable than silk.
Cut velvets, which are also known as Devore velvets, are treated with a solution that dissolves the pile, or surface fibers, in specific areas to create a pattern. Cut velvets are increasingly popular because they introduce a stylized motif without sacrificing the softness of the velvet. Layering different cut velvets with solid and striped velvets creates an elegant atmosphere.
Layer Ralph Lauren’s “Grantham Velvet Damask – Ruby” with Kravet’s striped “15037-584” velvet and Schumacher’s solid “Gainsborough Velvet” for a rich ruby room. For a fresh graphic room that is equally opulent, layer Schumacher’s velvet “Imperial Trellis” with “Marrakesh Velvet,” a small diamond cut velvet, and “Metropolitan Velvet,” a geometric cut velvet.
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Left to Right: K 15037 – 584 | Grantham Velvet Damask – Ruby | Gainsborough Velvet – Bordeaux | Imperial Trellis Velvet – Peacock | Marrakesh Velvet – Vert | Metropolitan Velvet – Reef
Velvet Flocked Walls
Upholstering walls with velvet fabric was popular in stately homes throughout Europe and has translated to flocked wallpapers in modern motifs and colorations. These updated papers add texture and depth to any space.
Clarke & Clarke’s “Ornella Flock – Espresso” creates the illusion of multidimensional walls with a flocked brown vine shadowed with a lighter vine on a metallic background. This design complements modern and contemporary decor and metal accents.
Get creative with your textured wallpaper and hang Ralph Lauren’s “Jinping Dragon – Champagne” on the ceiling or on an accent wall to brighten a room with this gilded Asian wallpaper. Offset the gold paper with Cole & Son’s “Drape – Black,” which gives the appearance of a draped velvet curtain.
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Left to Right: Jinping Dragon – Champagne | Drape – Black | Ornella Flock – Espresso | Bamboo Flock – Cream On Silver | Canonbury – Lime
Velvet Pillows
Pillows are your home’s greatest accessory because they allow you to keep up with trends or change the atmosphere of a room without breaking the bank. Give your sitting room a glamorous edge with geometric, striped, animal print, and damask cut velvet pillows from Ryan Studio. Or, design your own pillows with coordinating cut velvets from Clarke & Clarke.
Clarke & Clarke’s cut velvets add flair to a refined neutral room when layered together as pillows. Pair from the geometric maze “Cosimo” with the coordinating cut velvet “Florentine” for a complete set.
For a more opulent space, accessorize with Ryan Studio’s traditional “Royal Beauty – Sterling,” a cut velvet damask, and “Royal Tiger – Pewter,” a gorgeous cut velvet animal print. These exquisite pillows are perfect in an over-the-top room complete with crystal accents and satin silk fabrics.
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Left to Right: Cosimo – Pewter | Florentine – Dijon | Emilio – Dijon | Zebra – Taupe | Cosimo – Pewter
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Left to Right: Galway – Pink | Polonia – Cinnabar | Royal Beauty – Sterling | Royal Tiger – Pewter | Velvet Geo – Turquoise | Hudson – Citrine
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