Spring Fabrics And Furnishings - Decorating Your New Home

Bring back the romance into your life and new home this year by keeping up with the spring trends in bright and airy colours and fabrics

. Sheer and cotton-based fabrics using traditional floral designs are a good idea for window dressings for bedrooms or dressing rooms. Jacquard (a raised pattern incorporated into the fabric) is also in trend. Villa Nova (www.villanova.co.uk) offers a range of beautiful fabrics suitable for 2012's trends (see photo). I would, however, recommend the softly flowing, wide sheers featuring subtly textured plains and crisp stripes, presented in light natural tones with stylish accent colours.

Cath Kidston (cathkidston.co.uk) is going from strength to strength and working with the traditional home crafting theme, along with the use of traditional florals and fresh pastel colours. This designer is a must for your home furnishings and window dressings: visit online or one of its shops (for example, the one in The Lanes in Brighton or at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent). There are cushions and throws along with matching accessories available, along with fabric to purchase by the metre, if you are a dab-hand at creating your own window dressings or soft furnishings. Fabrics cater for kids and adults and if you do not manage to pass an hour in the shop, you just haven't looked hard enough!

Due to the ever-decreasing contents of our purses or wallets these days, especially after all the expenses involved in buying your new-build, the D.I.Y option is very much in favour. I would like to introduce spray-painting of stencils onto furniture, which is really not hard to do! Hooray, you may shout - so please read on. To harmonise with suggested themes and fabrics, familiarise yourself with the art of stencilling and apply it to items of furniture such as bedside tables or dressing tables, to add a touch of personality and also, of course, keeping with trend.

Floral stencils can be purchased at your local hobbycraft or art shop, or search in books or online as to how to create your own. Next, purchase a spray paint which is environmentally friendly and ensure that you use in a well-ventilated area, preferably outdoors, now that we are entering Spring. Take your item of furniture and stencil your pattern onto the front of your bedside cabinet, or why not use a doily and spray onto the top of your cabinet to mimic a real one. An innovative and stylish method which will be the envy of visitors to your new house.

by: Keith Osborne

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