Selecting Fabric for Your Home Decor

It is amazing how much color and creativity can be brought into your home and enhance the atmosphere with just the use of beautiful fabric. You can use gorgeous materials in any room as well as outside, and it doesn’t matter whether your theme is modern or traditional. It is easy to mix and match trends and styles to show off your own individual likes.

Does your living room need a “pop” of color in either new draperies or window treatments or perhaps in reupholstering a sofa or chair? Do you want to decorate the nursery or a child’s bedroom? What about something new for the master bedroom and/or bathroom? The family room is a good place to make some improvements, and don’t forget all the things you can do out on the patio.

Fabric for Your Home Decor

Some of the unique fabrics available are these:

Waverly Santa Maria Desert Flower

This versatile medium-weight fabric with its floral design is screen printed on cotton duck. The colors are green, bright pink, turquoise, red, and black on an ivory background. This is perfect for curtains, draperies, swags, valances, bed skirts, upholstery, slipcovers, accent pillows, pillow shams, and more.

Richloom Solarium Outdoor Fresca Fiesta

This outdoor fabric is screen printed on polyester and features the colors gold, tan, jade, teal blue, red, and white. It will withstand as many as 500 hours of sunlight exposure and is water and stain resistant. It is ideal for patios, porches, pool side, deck side, and boat side.

Tommy Bahama Indoor/Outdoor Beach Bounty

This 100 percent medium-weight polyester material is screen printed in shades of red, green, gold, aqua, pink, tan, coral, and white. Its durability makes it ideal for cushions, chair pads, toss pillows, upholstery, or slipcovers in your indoor sun room or outside porch. It is stain and soil resistant as well as oil and water repellent.

Oilcloth Hibiscus

Oilcloth is actually vinyl on a cotton mesh base. It is versatile, durable, protects surfaces, and is fun for creating fun crafts such as placemats, shelf lining, and tablecloths including for picnics. There is no need to hem; simply cut the shape and finish with bias tape.

Fabric.com has a large selection of discounted home decor fabric that will help you with your projects. The above are just a few of many possible ideas.


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Barb Webb. Founder and Editor of Rural Mom, is an the author of "Getting Laid" and "Getting Baked". A sustainable living expert nesting in Appalachian Kentucky, when she’s not chasing chickens around the farm or engaging in mock Jedi battles, she’s making tea and writing about country living and artisan culture.
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  1. Reply

    Nice recommendation. Sure gonna try 🙂

    • Taylor Bishop
    • July 7, 2017
    Reply

    I didn’t know that Tommy Bahama is an ideal choice for cushions, or that it is stain and soil resistant. Definitely seems like this would be a good investment if you have active children or if you needed some more decorations outside. I’d be interested in knowing what the texture feels like. This is something I’m probably going to have to look into. Thanks for these recommendations!

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