Designing With Pillows

Osmond Designs Garden Theme Pillows

Pillows like many accessories can make a big impact on a room. By adding color, personality, accent, and focal points to a room, pillows fill in decorating gaps and add that extra something that pulls a room together.With the huge variety of pillows on the market today, it's possible to get any look that's desired.

Let's start with an unaccented sofa from Osmond Designs. 

Osmond Designs Prelude Sofa in Champagne  # 41162

This Champagne colored sofa from Osmond Designs is neutral and the perfect backdrop for adding pillow accents to a room. A wide variety of colors, designs, patterns, and looks can be used on any neutral sofa to create a fabulous look.

With today's eclectic looks, all types of styles are used to create personalized decor in a room. Mix up decorating styles, design, and accents to create your own personal look. Gone are the days of matchy, matchy, decorating where one style is used on all decorating elements of a room.

Today's best American decor is a mix of styles, colors, textures, and expressions. Create a fresh look of your own using this decorating principle.

To begin adding pillows to your sofa, start with a basic foundation. Choose the colors that are desired to accent to the room. Here we start with a few basic pillows in the colors we have chosen.

Osmond Designs Prelude Sofa in Champagne  # 41162 with Dusty Ruffled Pillow, and Burlap Pillows # 8234

This color palette is comprised of very muted colors. They are soft, and very neutral in and of themselves. Although one can see a difference with these pillows added to our sofa, there isn't much personality to this combination so far.

Let's see if we can ramp up the look of this pillow combination.

Burlap Pillows # 8234,  Document Pillows # 46648, Dusty Ruffled Pillow

 By adding two more pillows in a Document print, this pillow combination now looks polished and finished. Now it has some personality.

Close up Dusty Ruffled Pillow and Document Pillows # 44936

This is a close up of the textures this pillow design creates. The ruffled pillow, document design pillows, and fresh burlap pillows add interest and a mix of pleasing textures to this look.

Another pillow design on our same Osmond Designs Prelude sofa in Champagne # 41162

By adding a few more pillows in a contrast color, and changing things up a bit, the look pops! The black ruffled pillows add that extra zing to this pillow design and the document pillow is showcased.

 Burlap Pillows # 8234,  Printed Pillows # 42136, Pillow # 41924 reversed.

Fun printed pillows and a melon colored pillow, change the look. Here the melon accent pillow is placed behind the printed pillows to add just a bit of color and a bit of the unexpected.

Green Pillows # 8231, and Printed Pillows # 41924

Green sherbert pillows combined with hot peach, melon, light aqua, and green print pillows on a white background, create a colorful more minimal look.

Green Pillows # 8231, and Printed Pillows # 41924 reversed.

Citrus pillows add eye catching appeal to this pillow design. By simple flipping the printed pillows over a new look is created. Try adding an accent pillow in the center that has a novelty print, shape, or whimsical feel to personalize this look and blend it with surrounding decor.

Green Pillows # 8231, and Document Pillows # 46648

Fresh green pillows and document pillows with brown and green print give a fresh feel to this pillow design.

Green Pillows # 8231 and Document Pillows # 46648 close up.

The choices for pillow design are virtually endless. Come play with pillow combinations at one of our Osmond Design store locations. Our showroom designers are happy to help with pillow design ideas that will create the perfect look for your home or office.



by Debra Breitenstein