Green
Bring a piece of the hot summer desert into your home with a cacti, preferably in a wicker planter like in this picture. The cacti fits in perfectly with the retro ikat couch in green and the retro coffee table. Loving the rustic feel of the walls and floorboards.
Image from Anthropologie.
Spanish interior designer Teresa Abaitua creates a wonderful rainbow pastel interior with a misture of modern furniture and fittings, vintage 1960’s furniture and a few restored antiques thrown in the mix.
Bring a unique and colorful element into your space with chairs covered in Ikat fabric. Ikat is a dying technique that has made a big resurgence in fashion and decor lately. It is an old technique much like tie-dying, but it works like this:
Bindings, which resist dye penetration, are applied to the threads in the desired patterns and the threads are dyed. Alteration of the bindings and the dyeing of more than one color produce elaborate, multicolored patterns. When all of the dyeing is finished the bindings are removed and the threads are ready to be woven into cloth.
The defining characteristic of ikat is the dyeing of patterns, by means of bindings, into the threads before cloth construction, the weaving of the fabric, takes place. Herein lies the difference between ikat and tie-dye. In tie-dye the fabric is woven first and the resist bindings are then applied to the fabric which is dyed.
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Ikat patterns combine well with black and white geometric patterns, you can see the use of the geometric patterns in the rugs in most of these inspirational pictures.
via Vogue Living
via Vogue Living
Ikat in blue and white
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Colorful ikat chairs
Lavender ikat
Headwaters Camp Big Sky, Montana by Dan Joseph Architects. Amazing cabin decor, rustic wooden elements, truly bringing the outdoors within.
Gorgeous bedroom inspiration for a little girls room in pink and green from Platinum Series Homes. The height added from the vaulted ceiling gives the space a grand atmosphere. The chandelier and four poster beds adds glamour, the pastel green and pink gives a lovely childish sense. A bedroom fit for a princess!
