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Photo by: Francesco Lagnese

Soften Prints with Solids

Designer Ashley Whittaker combined patterns in a Greenwich, Connecticut, sunroom to give it more of a lived-in look. "I always tell clients not to be scared of pattern," she says. "They'll look at six-by-six-inch swatches tightly clustered on a table and say, 'ooh, wow… that seems like a lot.' Of course I interspersed them with solids and neutrals."

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Photo by: Francesco Lagnese

Soften Prints with Solids

Designer Ashley Whittaker combined patterns in a Greenwich, Connecticut, sunroom to give it more of a lived-in look. "I always tell clients not to be scared of pattern," she says. "They'll look at six-by-six-inch swatches tightly clustered on a table and say, 'ooh, wow… that seems like a lot.' Of course I interspersed them with solids and neutrals."

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