Mix and Match 101: How to Add Pattern the Right Way

Photo by: Ngoc Minh Ngo

Balance Scale

Your patterns need to complement one another, so if one is bold, the other shouldn't be too busy. In the kitchen dining area of this Charlotte, North Carolina, house, designer Lindsey Coral Harper transformed dark brown floors with a large geometric pattern, painted by Jay C. Lohmann. "We kept the pattern clean and simple because the ikat on the sofa is so busy," Harper says. She also brightened the space

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Photo by: Ngoc Minh Ngo

Balance Scale

Your patterns need to complement one another, so if one is bold, the other shouldn't be too busy. In the kitchen dining area of this Charlotte, North Carolina, house, designer Lindsey Coral Harper transformed dark brown floors with a large geometric pattern, painted by Jay C. Lohmann. "We kept the pattern clean and simple because the ikat on the sofa is so busy," Harper says. She also brightened the space with Benjamin Moore's Inner Glow on the walls and a citron table from HB Home.

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