What Your Cushions Say About Your Personality
Choosing cushions for our home ought to be so simple, so why is it so tough? Let’s face it, it’s all the little accessories and knick knacks that really make our living space feel more like a home to us. Good home decor design is as much about the little things such as our choice of designer cushions as it is about making bold color choices for our walls. One of those personally chosen items in the home is the humble cushion.
There is far more to designing and selecting cushions to match your home and personality than you might think. Indeed experts say your choice of cushions can often be a telling way of predicting your future behaviour and can, in fact, be a good indicator of your overall personality type. How so? Well, read on and find out:
Choosing Cushions to Clash
If you enjoy mixing 50s geometric design with shabby chic florals or plumping up together a set of ruby red, royal blue and iridescent yellow cushions – and all in different sizes with clashing textures such as wool, silk and hessian – then you’re a bit of a stirrer when it comes to social situations.
You enjoy a good argument (you prefer to call it a ‘heated debate’) and you’re no wallflower at a party or gathering either. In fact, you always make sure you get noticed when entering a room a bit of an attention seeker perhaps?
You Prefer Co-ordinating Cushions
Your cushions are always a good match, both together and with the rest of the room. They tie in with the colours in the curtains and don’t they go beautifully with that nearby lampshade? You’re a bit of neat freak who is also pretty organised in most areas of life.
You don’t like to be out of control either. Your dream cushion hues tend to be pops of bright colours. You don’t mind patterns but you’re not keen on a lot of messy mixed up textures.
You Like Your Cushions to Stand out
As interior designer William Morris famously – and correctly in our eyes – said: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.â€
Hence if to you choosing a single cushion style is like deliberating over which artwork you’re going to grace your sitting room with then you’re the type who prefer your cushions to be a focal point rather than simply merge into the overlook of the room.
This points to a bit of an exhibitionist streak as well as a perfectionist. You like quality items like designer cushions and they have to have a touch of the upmarket ‘wow’ factor or you’re simply not interested. Could you also be a tad snobby?
Choosing Cushions in Natural Hues
You are the opposite of ‘clashing cushion’ woman above. You enjoy being the ‘watcher’ at a party rather than the centre of attention. It’s not that you don’t enjoy participating, just that you’d rather weigh up the situation before jumping in.
In other words, you’re the cautious type, nothing wrong with that of course! Your designer cushions are gorgeous earth and oatmeal shades perhaps.
They’re also textured – wool, silk and other natural fibres – because you have a bit of an eco bent. Thankfully, they don’t blend in to the sofa because that’s dark. Everyone agrees the cushions are lovely but let’s face it; they’re never going to set the heather on fire.
Design the Perfect Cushion Arrangement
So, have you checked the cushions that adorn your home living spaces lately? If, after reading this article, you’re a bit worried about how your cushion arrangements will look, it might be an idea to try design store Oka’s cushion arranger tool. You can use this tool to place a choice of cushions on their virtual couch again and again and again.
After all choosing cushions for a new living space can be an expensive mistake if they are chosen in error. Perhaps they don’t go with the new sofa or clash with the feature wall. So try the cushion arranger tool and choosing cushions for your home in 2016 needn’t be so tough after all.
As much as our choice of cushions reflect who we are they can easily clash with other aspects of your furnishings and home decor. So lets not make that mistake shall we.
