I?m painting my master bedroom this week and changing the color on the walls to the palest gray just so I can hang my new velvet curtains. (The new paint color is BM Classic Gray if you?re curious). Reason is, I found some beautiful lightweight pewter cotton velvet window panels at HomeGoods that I wanted to hang in my bedroom, but because they are too close to my existing wall color, I decided to paint the space lighter so I could show them off better. The velvet made me do it. :)
Like George Castanza from Seinfeld famously quipped, there are many of us out there that would ?drape ourselves in velvet if it were socially acceptable.? I feel that way about the use of velvet in interiors too, there?s something about the velvet accent, be it curtains, pillows, or a grand sofa, that makes you want to reach out at caress it. Many years ago I reupholstered a chair in camel velvet and loved it until the sad day that it broke – I won?t name the culprit who sat in it and broke it but it happened, I wept, and had to let my chair go. We have some friends who?s mother recently passed away and we were invited to see the apartment that they were preparing for an estate sale. I?ll never forget the forest green velvet sofa she had in her parlor, one that she had named her Seduction Sofa because ?no one could resist it, or her, when they sat on it.? She was one of those wonderful eccentric women that spoke just like that and you loved her for it.
It’s true, the velvet sofa...