I have been looking for fabric that had my favorite color combo (red and yellow) with my husband's favorite color, blue, for a long time. You would think these color combinations were common, but not in the shade I desired. I found this fabric in SC on my last trip and knew I had to use it in our kitchen/living room area. If you have a large room or several connecting rooms and don't know how to start looking for a decor scheme, pick one fabric that you just love. Then use it to inspire your paint colors, furniture choices, and accesories. I already had several red and yellow (even brown) accents, but now with this fabric I started to add the blue.

Buttons are huge right now. They add texture and dimension to any thing! I recently saw some pillows in pottery barn that had banding of different material, buttons, etc. to add texture and I was inspired to do some new pillows for our living room. I got these large wooden buttons online

and used some contrasting fabric and trim as a banding across the first 1/3 of the pillow.

I then choose another fabric that just had the blue color to use in our living room windows. The floral was great for me and my style, but a little too much for my husbands if I had used it everywhere. The simple repeat of a geometric type print was more his contemporary style and the shape of the circles leaned towards my traditional taste.

This is the finished valance in our kitchen. I lined it in a contrasting stripe material that had all the color choices represented.

Then used the blue aforementioned fabric as goblet pleat drapes. I covered a bench seat in the floral and trimmed it in the contrast fabric from the valance. This just pulls all the fabrics together in each room. However, using the blue as the main fabric on the windows helps to divide this room from the kitchen while still allowing them to flow well.