Bringing Texture and Warmth Into Your Space
A room can have the right colours and still feel flat. More often than not, what it lacks is contrast under the hand and under raking light.
Texture is the cheapest way we know to change a room's mood, and it rarely requires moving a wall.
Mix rough with smooth
We try to place one coarse surface next to one refined surface in every room: a boucle chair on polished concrete, or a glazed tile beside unpainted brick. The eye reads depth from the difference, even if everything sits in the same colour family.
Easy places to begin
Swap one smooth curtain for a heavier weave
Add a hand-thrown lamp base to a sleek sideboard
Layer a flat rug under a deep pile one
Aim a wall light across a plastered surface
Try one change at a time and look at it in the evening, since low light is when texture does most of its work.
