Transform your Home from Domestic to Exotic Extravaganza with Modern Fabrics

Feel the Fabric

While choosing fabrics for furniture, covers or upholstery, touching and feeling the material is very important, because if you don’t touch and feel, you cannot understand it will perfectly fit or not. While picking a fabric for the bedroom, you should go for a smooth, seamless material, which will give you a soft relaxing vibe. On the contrary, while decorating a sitting room which directly faces outside, a rough fabric can fit in perfectly. 

Price

Price is a pivotal factor for choosing home decor elements or fabrics. If you have prepared a budget for your home decor, choose the right fabrics that fit into your budget and at the same time ensure it can play the purpose well. Try to choose cotton, polyester, or rayon when there are budgetary limitations. If you want to focus on a very specific look and have a more liberal budget, wool and silk can be the perfect choices. 

Variations of Contemporary Home Decor Textiles

After considering the above points, we should look for perfect choice of material for decorating your home. Different types of fabric materials are best suited for different roles within a home’s design. The material which finely works as an upholstery fabric, may not work as curtain or bed sheets.

So, it is very important to have a thorough knowledge about each of the material used for decorating interior. Selecting the best begins with a deeper understanding of the natural and synthetic fabrics available in the market.

Let’s check out few of the best and widely used fabrics for homes and commercial spaces.

Linen: As wines get better as it get old, the same way longer use of linen fabrics makes it soft and super comfortable. Linen is absorbent, lightweight, durable, and breathable.  For this reason, Linen is the perfect choice for curtains, sofas, accent chairs, commercial wall coverings, and lampshades.

It is widely used in commercial sheets, bedding, tablecloths, cushion covers, napkins, pillow covers, and towels because of its rapid drying feature and smoothness. In creating minimalistic style of decor linen is the perfect choice as it adds an earthy aesthetics in your decor.

Silk: It will be the perfect choice if you are looking for creating a classy and luxurious decor. It is a beautiful delicate fabric which flows and blends well with any other materials and offers an eye-catching attraction.

The durability of silk depends on its weave. A heavy raw silk is quite sturdy and can take significant wear, the silk taffeta can have a crunchier, and more rigid texture. One of the biggest cons of silk fabric is that, it can face discoloration if it is over exposed by sun.  So, for a south facing room with maximum sun exposure, silk is not a perfect choice for curtains, bed sheets or upholstery.

Cotton: Cotton has been the perfect choice of fabric for clothing’s as well home decor fabrics from the time immemorial. It is easily accessible fabric that perfectly goes along with different designs of curtains, upholstery, bed linens, and more.

Cotton offers to be a great base for value additions like printing, patterns, dobby, and dyeing. Cotton fabrics are also easy to maintain and fits well with any budget. In addition to that, Cotton is very durable, and resistant to abrasion.

It is natural, harmless and soft for skin, so, it can be the perfect choice for bed sheets, cushion cover for children’s room as well as any bedroom or living room. Pure cotton is not that durable, so it is blended with other artificial materials like rayon to give it a sturdy texture.