Furniture Friday: Match Your Furniture to your Walls

{Interior Design by Ellen Hamilton via Quadrille}

Matching your upholstered piece(s) to wallpapered or upholstered walls is an old-school designer trick that honestly takes a designer with some guts now-a-days to pull off.  I always say you’re going to tire of a “safe” room a lot faster than putting in pieces, colors, and patterns that you LOVE.

Heather Hilliard

This does not have to be a stuffy look I love the way Heather Hilliard took a “traditional” idea and make it clean and contemporary.

Aerin Lauder is the perfect example of a “fresh” traditionalist.

Greg Mendelson via Chic Coles old school with an edge

Philip Gorrivan via Quadrille

Match your walls to your pillows!

Tory Burch via Quadrille

via Thibaut Design