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Adding Textures

A living room with a textured rug.

Transform Your Home with textures

The look of your interior design is mostly about the sense of sight, maximizing the visual beauty of your home. But adding textures to the equation brings in the sense of touch.

Having a variety of textures in a room adds interest and emotion, provides balance, and may enhance your physical comfort for sitting and lounging.

A room without much texture can be quietly beautiful, communicating sleekness and calm, but it can also become a bit monotonous.

A minimalist living room with a plush rug. Having textures in a room adds balance.

Creating Interesting Contrasts

Texture adds a tactile sense to your interior design and wakes up the room. Soft and silky finishes can relax your senses, while rougher textures will energize you.

Think of these contrasts when selecting finishes for a room:

  • Thick and thin
  • Soft and hard
  • Bumpy and smooth
  • Silky and rough
  • Flexible and stiff

A living room with silky window shades and rougher carpet. Mix different types of textures to create interest.

CONSIDER THESE DESIGN ELEMENTS

Ideas for adding texture are:

  • A natural contoured edge for a wood table or counter top
  • Textured woven wood shades
  • Natural furniture made of rattan or wicker
  • Rugged fabrics such as tweed, tapestry and some wools
  • Ridges or embossed patterns in wall coverings
  • Distressed or faux paint and stain finishes
  • Knotty or unfinished wood
  • Shaggy or contoured carpeting and rugs
  • Tufted upholstery or even ruffles
  • Rough finishes on stone floors or backsplashes

Add tactile texture to your interior plan! It will transform the feeling of your home.

A living room with woven wood shades and a silky rug. One idea is to combine woven wood shades with a silky rug.

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