Bringing fabrics into your kitchen is an excellent, inexpensive avenue to making your kitchen more beautiful and custom. There are a bountiful of ways to carry fabrics and patterns into your kitchen. Lets start with the most obvious, window treatments.
Window treatments are often used for privacy and temperature control but they can also be an important catalyst in exuding personality and warmth into an otherwise dull space. To prove this point, test your imagination and picture these kitchens without their window treatments (yikes, this sounds kind of creepy, like I’m asking you to imagine somebody without their clothes on).
You can see how these window treatments have added both color and character. Here is a picture of my kitchen’s window treatments. At first, I considered playing it safe and going solid on one window and patterned on the other. In the end, I went with two patterned window treatments and I’m glad I did–it makes the space feel more playful and interesting.
www.providenthomedesign.com
Below are the sources for the window treatments in our kitchen. They rang in at a total of $80. Not bad considering the difference they make!
Waverly Stripe Ensemble Robin’s Egg- Joann Fabrics
(bought a yd. at 50% for $17.49)
Wild Hibiscus Grommet Curtain- World Market
(2 panels cost me $63)
Another beneficial method of infusing fabrics into your kitchen is through seating via seat cushions or upholstering. The tasteful upholstered barstools below, are turning up the heat in these kitchens!
www.oharainteriors.com
Dwellings via Houzz
There are a lot of tutorials out there on reupholstering but if you don’t have barstools or a way to upholster them, some super cute seat cushions for your chairs will do the trick!
Check out these lovelies:
Target $40 for a set
World Market $14.99 each
Pier1 $45 each
I love the classic black & white striped cushions featured in the picture below.
Zuniga Interiors via Houzz
I was lucky enough to find my barstool cushions a couple of years ago at World Market when they were having a buy 1 get 1 free sale. Plus I had a coupon for $10 off $30 or more. The total came to 4 cushions for only $20!
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If you are fortunate enough to have a bench seat in your kitchen by all means adorn it with colored or patterned pillows and seat cushions.
Tobi Fairley Interior Design via Houzz
Lexington Design-Build FirmsFeinmann, Inc. via Houzz
And lastly, although kitchen towels aren’t exactly home décor fabric they are a form of fabric and can help tie color and pattern into a kitchen. We all need them, so they might as well be attractive and help us meet our goal of a more loveable kitchen, right?
www.poketo.com
William-Sonoma- 2 for$30
World Market- $7.99
So, to rest my case about how important fabric can be to creating a beautiful, custom kitchen–see these gorgeous kitchens? They have exquisite cabinetry and other refined details but they’re missing something! Don’t you think???
Yep, they are starving for fabric!!! Starving, get it? It’s a kitchen and it’s starving??? Okay, very (p)unny I know! Glad I have a computer screen to protect me from all the tomatoes being thrown at me right now:-) Are you cooking up some plans for putting fabric in your kitchen? Oh dear, I made another (p)unny! This is getting bad, I better stop now because it’s likely to get worse at this point:-) If you are in need of some fabric inspiration I recently started a Pinterest Board on Fabrics I Swoon Over. Can’t wait to keep adding more fabrics to the board. Fabric is too fun!
UPDATE: I recently came across a great article that gave tips on how to mix fabric patterns. If you are interested the article can be found here. My favorite tip is #5.
6 responses to “Love Your Kitchen Series- Adding Fabrics”
Your fabrics made me smile and your puns made me laugh! Not a bad way to start the day!
Glad they made you smile and not grimace!:-)
I love fabrics and sew things like valances, cushions and tablerunners all the time. Needless to say I really enjoyed this post. BTW I was at Kohl’s yest. and saw some really pretty outdoor cushions. They were 50% off and would be an additional 15% off on sr. day (get someone to “beard” for you.)
Judy, I love that you are a fellow fabric connoisseur! Thank you so much for the heads up on the outdoor cushions! Sounds like a great deal! I will definitely check it out!;-)
great post! Can you tell me where you got your island/cart shown in your pic that you talk about your 2 different fabrics in your kitchen? If you have more pics of it, I would love to see them
Hi, Jett! I bought my kitchen table/island from Craigslist. I found it by putting the term “butcher block table” in the search box in the For Sale section. I think I searched for a few months before this one came up so I’m glad I kept trying. You can see more pics of it at my home tour, http://providenthomedesign.com/home-tour/. Let me know if you have any other ?s and thanks so much for stopping by!!