Elevate Your Home's Interior Design with These Top 4 Textiles
Luxury textiles are the foundation of our designs at Mimi Wittstruck Design. A colorful printed pattern can inspire an entire design scheme of a room. Once you decide on the main print, the other textile choices fall into place to support that main print. Your color and pattern selections are essential to a beautiful interior.
My former experience working at Lee Jofa / Brunschwig & Fils designing the interior of their showrooms was a great experience featuring every kind of textile. I have translated that into my current work so that all my design schemes revolve around textiles. Here are four of our favorites…
Textile #1: Dynamic Velvet for Touchability & Texture
We love incorporating textures to make the design more dynamic. For example, we will mix in velvet for luxury—which helps add a bit of glamour and sheen to create a rich look.
Textile #2: Layered Linen for Elegance & Comfort
We like incorporating linen as well for a casual/ crisp look. We do a linen & poly blend for drapes because the poly helps the linen retain its shape so it won't stretch out. For upholstery, we do performance fabrics with a linen look. Performance fabrics are more practical for holding up to wear, tear, and stains.
Textile #3: Luxurious Leather for Durability & Design
Faux leather is perfect for high-traffic areas, such as mudroom benches or breakfast room banquettes. The faux leather they offer nowadays looks just like the real thing and is ideal for young families.
Textile #4: Warm Wool for Soft Sophistication
Wool fabrics add comfort and softness to a room for a tailored look. In studies, we often use wool for custom ottomans to add to a high-end look.
We source our textiles from trade sources to ensure that they are unique and hard to find, and in our opinion, it’s the most interesting aspect of making a room memorable.
If you're ready to enhance the textiles in your home, reach out to us. We can't wait to hear about your project and help you add that touch of luxury!
Cheers,
Mimi