You know, sometimes I just get hold of an idea and I can't let go. Did you ever have a worry stone? It's like that: I just keep rubbing away at it, but for all the rubbing the thing stays whole.
After obsessing about the use of patchwork in Kathryn Ireland's work, I did a little round up of patchwork products. And maybe it would have stopped there, except I saw this room in the portfolio of designer Brooke Wagner.
See what she did with that patchwork rug? Well, I just had to give it a try.
Haven't done a "two ways" post in a while, so here we are.
I like the idea of letting even a neutral patchwork rug stand out by keeping the palette simple and the shapes sculptural. In the above, the black is a nice contrast to the softer greys, and every shape is interesting without adding too much busyness or competition, and the wood tables warm things up.
Then again....
sometimes the more the merrier, right? Here a rug patched from overdyed vintage kilims is accent-sized to keep the color in check. The furniture shapes are interesting (and fairly traditional), but the palette is consistently quiet. All the better to shout with accessories, no? Each and every fabric relates to the colors in the rug, keeping things just this side of cuckoo.
I never would have thought about a patchwork rug for myself....but now I'm kind of digging it.
What do you think: tight palette with high contrast, or full on color?
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