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Design Tastemaker: Amy Butler's Playful Patterns
Butler's signature Midwest modern style brightens bedding, curtains, wallpaper, rugs and much more
I am a Brooklyn-based writer, who writes about all sorts of DIY ventures like cooking, crafts and decorating. When I'm not on assignment, I can be found dreaming up projects for my home, which I chronicle in my blog The Little House in the City (thelittlehouseinthecityblog.com).
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Amy Butler designs colorful, playful patterns that adorn everything from fabric to wallpaper to scrapbook paper. The core of Butler's business is fabrics and sewing patterns, but over the years she has licensed her designs, so that they are now available for many parts of the home.
Fans of Butler's designs love her fun patterns, which range from abstractions to '70s-style florals to 19th-century-inspired motifs. All of Butler's designs are offered in a unique palette that often features fresh, surprising color combinations (think mustard yellow with a soft blue-gray). The photographs collected here all feature Amy Butler's designs, so go ahead and explore her colorful world.
Fans of Butler's designs love her fun patterns, which range from abstractions to '70s-style florals to 19th-century-inspired motifs. All of Butler's designs are offered in a unique palette that often features fresh, surprising color combinations (think mustard yellow with a soft blue-gray). The photographs collected here all feature Amy Butler's designs, so go ahead and explore her colorful world.
For this garden-inspired girl's room, designer Erika Ward upholstered a headboard in Amy Butler's Love Trumpet Flowers fabric.
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| A pretty print makes organization decorative. Here Alicia of the blog Atypical Type A has used an Amy Butler fabric to cover magazine files. |
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Here's a close-up of those fabric-covered magazine files.
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Alicia used another Amy Butler fabric to reupholster the seat of a midcentury chair in her living room. The floral print gives the chair a contemporary twist.
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| Joi of the blog Nuestra Vida Dolce made her gorgeous dining room curtains using Amy Butler's Midwest Modern II Fresh Poppies Linen and a simple no-sew method. See the rest of Joi's home |
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An Amy Butler pattern adorns the sheets in this airy bedroom by Joel Snayd. While this pattern is discontinued, Butler's newer designs are available at Bed Bath & Beyond.
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See the rest of this home
A bed is a riot of patterns and colors when dressed from dust ruffle to sham in one of Butler's patterns. This pastel collection is called Sari Bloom.
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Butler's Lacework Blue Floral wallpaper available through Graham & Brown makes a bold statement on the wall. This retro-seeming print is available in five colorways.
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Graham & Brown's description of Butler's Temple Tulips prints: "kind of William Morris on ecstasy." We're not sure what Morris, who designed in the 19th century, would say to that, but we couldn't agree more.
by Layla Grayce
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Among Butler's many partnerships is her rug line with Chandra. In these tufted floor coverings, Butler's designs gain a third dimension. The rugs are handmade from 100 percent New Zealand wool.
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Comments
rphjamie I've been sewing with Amy Butler's fabric for years. She is an inspirational mid-west girl! I would love to decorate my whole house in her graphics. Now I see that i can with wallpaper and rugs!
14 months ago · Like
Charmean Neithart Interiors, LLC. These fabrics are so happy and bright. They work great in kids rooms.
14 months ago · Like
Angela Thee I absolutely love everything Amy Butler. I love her fabrics. They work great for any sewing project and it is awesome to see her wallpaper and area rugs. Th
13 months ago · Like
Jan Grath I've been making quilts with Amy Butler's fabrics, I'm just crazy about her designs! Where can I buy her rugs?
8 weeks ago · Like
Ideabook published on April 18, 2012.
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