How to match sofa pillows and window treatments

Decorating with throw or sofa pillows offers a way to coordinate a room's colours. Window treatments soften a room and protect furniture, floors, rugs and fabrics from sun damage. Martha Stewart.com recommends making your own cafe curtains or pleated

How to match sofa pillows and window treatments

Decorating with throw or sofa pillows offers a way to coordinate a room's colours. Window treatments soften a room and protect furniture, floors, rugs and fabrics from sun damage. Martha Stewart.com recommends making your own cafe curtains or pleated valances. Valances--short curtains that go across the top of a window--can top sheers, blinds, shades or drapes. Window treatments serve to accent the room's decor, with ruffled, gathered or flowing styles offering a romantic feel and flat panel or pleated styles creating a more streamlined look. Match the sofa pillows to the window treatments to harmonise the colour scheme.

Things you need
Fabric (optional) Sofa pillows Window treatments

Instructions
1 Select a soft fabric that will hang well as a curtain and also feel soft as a sofa pillow. For example, choose velveteen or cotton. If you already have either the sofa pillows or the window treatments, take one of the sofa pillows or a panel of the window treatment with you to shop for the matching item that you need.

2 Take a sample of the sofa fabric or an item that matches as closely as possible with you to shop for the fabric. For example, if you have a blouse almost the same colour as the sofa, it will help you to select a colour or print for the sofa pillows. If the sofa has removable seat cushions, bring one along. Alternatively, use your sample to select matching sofa pillows and/or window treatments if you prefer to buy ready-made items.

3 Look at solid and print fabrics that go with your decorating scheme. For example, if the sofa is chocolate brown, gold, tan, red or emerald green cushions work well, depending on the other colours in the room. Select a solid window treatment fabric and match it to print fabric for sofa pillows or match a colour in print sofa pillows to the window treatments. For example, choose a rose valance and rose-print sofa pillows. Choose an exact match of a solid or print fabric for both the drapes and the pillows, if you prefer.

4 Add more interest to sofa pillows by selecting both solid colours and a print. For example, choose island print sofa pillows with sea blue for a tropical theme living room and coordinate them with sea-blue curtains and solid sea-blue sofa pillows.

Tips and warnings
Select the window treatments and the pillows from the same manufacturer, if possible. Some companies offer valances or other curtains and throw pillows in the same fabrics. Alternatively, it's often possible to order matching yardage from a sofa manufacturer, though this can be costly.

If you make your own sofa pillows, pick a pattern with a zipper. It's more convenient to wash the pillows when the cover zips off.

Neutral curtains or curtains matched to the wall colour help a room appear more spacious.

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