How to choose furniture cushions: kilim pillows

Would you like to bring some new things into your home and refresh the style, but the budget doesn't allow it? No need to change the furniture! Sometimes it is enough to work on the details, for example by changing the kilim pillows. For a small fee, you can create a whole new style. So, have fun mixing colors, patterns, shapes, and fabrics and you'll see what the result is.

Which style of pillows to choose?

A living room without cushions looks unquestionably bare and neglected. Kilim pillows are essential elements, not only to make tea with friends and evenings in front of the TV more comfortable but above all because they allow you to fully express the style you have chosen for your home.

Every now and then it's nice to change and bring new air into the home, and often just change small details to refresh the style of an environment. With kilim pillows, you can do this even on a small budget. So, have fun mixing shapes, colors, fabrics, and decorations to give a touch of your style to the room.

There are no rules, just simple tips that we offer you in this guide. First of all, to choose the cushions or the covers for the cushions in a coherent way home takes into account the style of the house, the color of the sofa, and the function they will have to perform.

Choose according to your environment:

For a classic style

Soft velvets, enveloping and sober colors, floral patterns in Devore, or jacquard for a very chic style.

Greenlight to soft canvases and pastel colors if you too love the Shabby style, for a very romantic and soft atmosphere.

For a modern style

Do you love the Scandinavian style? Clean lines, geometric patterns and pastel colors will be perfect for you.

Material textures, in natural or better still recycled materials, warm and enveloping colors recreate the whole mood of the vintage and industrial style.

And to always feel a bit on vacation, you can bet everything on fringes, pom-poms, and boho fantasies.

How many kilim pillows do you need?

You can decide how many kilim pillows to put according to the size of your sofa. There is no precise rule or an insurmountable limit. In general, it is always better to look for the proportion and keep the number of seats on the sofa as the starting number.

For example, for a 3-seater sofa, you should put at least 3 kilim pillows, but you could also put a few more, according to your taste, taking care to choose an odd number (5 kilim pillows or 7).

If you love minimalist furniture, you will opt for two or three kilim pillows. If you prefer a more colorful and creative style, you can completely cover the sofa with all the cushions that have awakened your imagination, until you have an inch of the free sofa.

How to choose the color and pattern of the cushions?

When it comes to colors and patterns, there are plenty of choices. Choosing just one color would offer a monotonous and boring result. The ideal is to create a combination of solid colors and patterns.

If once the cushions were chosen strictly to match the curtains, today this is no longer the case. The ideal is that at least one of the colors chosen for the cushions matches the color of the curtain or that the pattern is similar, although not identical.

How to choose plain or patterned kilim pillow:

combine at least three different patterns with a plain colored kilim pillow to create an interesting but not chaotic effect.

the patterns must have something in common: the color, the style, the pattern.

start with a kilim pillow that catches your attention and you have already found one of the three patterns. Of this kilim pillow, carefully observe the colors present and the type of fantasy.

The second and third kilim pillows must have something similar to the first: one of the colors or a similar pattern. For example, you can combine small polka dots with large polka dots.

fill with plain colored pillows in shades similar to those found in patterned kilim pillows.

a style trick? The double-sided cushions allow you to quickly change the style of the sofa.

How to combine the colors of the kilim pillows with each other:

tone on tone: the starting point is the color of the sofa to be combined with kilim pillows of different shades of the same color tone. For example, if the sofa is blue, you can choose shades of light blue and turquoise, lighter and darker.

contrast: in a house where there is a predominant color such as gray, you can create an impact effect by choosing two intense and vivid colors in contrast to each other, such as mustard yellow and forest green.

polychrome: if you love strong contrasts and bright colors, there are no rules to follow. You can create your own unique mix of colors and patterns however you like..thanks...