I think they would work great together. The overall effect in your existing curtains is muted, I don't think they would compete.

I LOVE the Colonial Spa fabric!! Gorgeous!!

I am going to say that I don't think they will work. They will fight with each other since the pattern size is so near the same and so is the design, and yet they are different colors. I would either make them the same or use something like a pin dot of the same color for one room and the toile for the other, or use a solid for one and the toile for the other. I think it's close but that only counts in horseshoes. I just don't think so. You always decorate everything so well but I think you are questioning it this time, the reason you asked. Both are lovely fabrics, just not together, not to my eye.

I am in total agreement with Patricia.

I think they're both bullies and they need a fence between them :oP

Patricia stated it best, so I won't say more, except that when I saw the title I thought of the fence line and hoped they wouldn't work :oP

Alright - Help me out guys! I'm trying to picture what Patricia is saying while I'm in a rush at work and I can't visualize what she's saying for another pattern suggestion. I know that I don't want a solid.

Patricia, what color background for a patterned fabric would you suggest for the LR? Another olive color a silver sage/ spa type blue?

I'd love to see anyone fabric suggestions.

I can always use the Colonial Spa for pillows.

Thanks!

Is there a hallway between the two rooms? How wide is the space that separates the rooms? It sounds like these are very separate rooms. If so, then by all means use both fabrics but separated, one to one room and one to the other. They will not be next to each other.

I think that they will totally work in rooms that are opposite each other. Similar feel in the pattern, muted colors. Love it. I am a huge fan of mixing patterns though.;)

I have a piece of fabric that I did my wing chairs for my great room(that I can also use as extras in the DR) and it has a silver/blue ground with a sagish olive texture pattern in it that is formed from texture (it is texture not really pattern).

I think you need to go to fabric store with wide selection and look at windowpane checks, pin dots, etc. I would go with either a background in a silvery sage or blue, maybe even a gray but one that has a hint of the colors, could even be an aqua that would blend your love of blue and green.

I think we have very similar tastes in that I have dry sage (which is very similar to SS) and my rug is graphite and green/blue/gray on tannish white background with faded/muted coral here and there, a sofa that is neither gray, blue, military brown nor green but can look all those colors at the same time in different lights. My oddman out chair is black with large paprika birds, smaller blue birds, with beiges, grays and greenery in a bold pattern while my walls are dry sage and my armoire a very knocked down magnolia green brought to its limits with a brown glaze that says French green but I have that blue and white plate collection over the mantle and a stack of books on the coffee table that is adorned by an aquaish/greenish chamber pot holding white orchids. Like you I love landscapes in simple same frames and I have landscape prints strewn about from places I have traveled from their local artists with big off-white mats.

It's just a room I love to be in and I have stacked enough books and mixed enough periods so that Bunny Williams might feel this was her starter home. ;-)

Go to a fabric store and look at greens and blues and blur your eyes and buy the one that can look either color as you do that. And don't forget the large impact that a wonderful mirror can have in this room. I know you cannot lean mirrors since you have small ones, but by all means, a mirror is imperative to bounce those beautiful mystifying greens and blues about.

Threegrad:

Yes the rms. are separated by a central entry hall that is 5' wide. Here are 2 very old pics.

Pic from front door/ vestibule:

I was standing in the office when I took this pic across the hallway looking into the LR (which has now been Baby Turtle about 2-3yrs now and not that bright blue).:

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BTW I just swatched SW Irish Cream in the hall and it looks so good between the Silver Sage and Baby Turtle! I was originally always planning on painting the hall SW White Hyacinth but decided to try a sample of Irish Cream after a few yrs. of drooling over TH's kitchen too.

Your selections will be fabulous since they're separated. If you have doubt, buy 1/2 yd and try it out. Since it's such a small quantity that won't give you a true sense IRL, you may have to try it up behind the chair, then take a photo and see how you react. If you don't like it, you can make your pillow.

I second Patricia on this one because of their similarity in theme and scale.

They are *both beautiful fabrics, but their similarity will diminish each.

Oh man that fretwork is to die for! Is it original to the house? Could you repair the one with a thin dowel and some wooden craft beads?

Thanks Oceanna - yep it can be repaired but one thing I learned while growing up in a very old farmhouse (ie: needed plumbing and electricity PUT IN to be able to move in) w/ a dad who restored historic homes and buildings, is that your house is ALWAYS the last one to get things done. 15yrs later we finally got a bathroom sink and doors on the kitchen cabinets. Of course it was only because my parents decided to sell and start renovating an old miners cabin in Northern PA......

Clearly that doesn't change when you grow up and marry a man who refinishes and repairs furniture for a living either! 9yrs later and I'm still waiting for 2 dowels, 4 craft beads and a little glue :O)! To this day still carry one of the pieces w/ me wherever I go.

Ttodd!! I'm excited for you! I hope you start sewing! I love your taste and your LR is tdf. I like your selections but I'm with Pal and Patricia on this one too. I do think the fabrics are too similar.

FYI: Calico Corners lets you check out the entire bolt to take home. That way you can pin it up on the wall and see what the scale and colors look like.

Ttodd, your house looks like the perfect place to sit and have some tea. It is absolutely gorgeous. I agree with Patricia on the fabrics. Enjoy the hunt for the perfect one.

(TxsHotties rooms inspired me too. Alas, my mother cannot give me any pointers so I will be studying under the teacher of trial and lots and lots and lots of error. Let me tell ya, teach does not smile much!)

Ttodd, I have a number of issues with your conundrum. First, it annoys me that you are planning on doing instead of wishing........that is, sewing, instead of just 'talking about sewing'. I've been 'talking about sewing' for 6 months. What possible reason could there be for Actually sewing? Ok. Now that I've vented about that, on to the next thing.
You are loving the juxtoposition of the Silver Sage across from the Baby Turtle. As Patricia pointed out, the Dry Sage is not that far off from Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage. I can't say enough about how much I like my Dry Sage Entry in close proximity to my own Baby Turtle. But I have no ability to put drapes in my Entry. Therefore, I see no reason for you to have drapes.
Ok. Now that we are clear on that........let's talk fabric. As you may remember, my drapes on the Baby Turtle are in Waverly Concord in Bronzine. Bronzine is a mix between a moss green and a bronze green. I wonder what color your LR drapes are? Hard to tell from the pix. Buuuuuuutttttttttt..........I ran a little of my own Waverly fabric against my Dry Sage walls and can totally see how that would be unexpected yet perfect. Question is, of course, would the toile with the blue be just as perfect on my BT walls? And.........would the patterns visible from close spaces create a continuity with sharing the same colors, or would they just look like two different patterns trying to work near each other? Now, on this, I'm torn. Patricia not only has a very Silver Sage-like color in her own home, and is like, the smartest person in the whole world, and she says "Ttodd.......don't do it! Step away from the toiles. Don't mix toiling and painting!" Is she correct? Will the patterns fight? Are you doomed to one pattern and one texture? Will Rhett come back to Scarlett? I just don't know. Cdworkin is thinking they will not only play well, but also be amazing in the rooms. Is she right? Again.......not totally sure. My feeling is that they just might be perfect. But just like in painting, I totally think that the only sure way to work with two fabrics is to try it. Or maybe I will try it. I just might have time tomorrow to head to Harts, the most amazing decor fabric store ever, and check out the blue toile. They let you check out fabric samples and take them home. But if you have the samples, (I have to assume you do not have a sample of the Colonial Spa, or you would have done this already) you can throw a half yard or one yard piece up against the window and see what you think.

Once upon a time when I was looking for master bedroom window fabric, I found the most amazing paisley ever in terra cottas and paprika and cream and gold and green. I was over the moon happy--almost bought all the yardage I needed when I found my fabric---but my innate worry over getting stuck caused me to check out half a yard, bring it home and pin it up at my window. Up close it was awe-inspiring. From the doorway..........it was mush. No definition between the colors.

Red

Does one ever see the draperies in the two rooms at the same time? If so, then don't use the two fabrics. But if you only see one room at a time (and from your pictures it seems that way), then I think each room can be decorated differently.

With this much distance between the rooms, feel fee to use the two different fabrics. And when you view the two fabrics while standing in the hall you could never see them both at the same time unless your eyes are in the side of your head. And again viewing from a distance you will not be able to make out the pattern at all especially when the drapes are pulled back. So really the drapes will look almost solid color when viewed while standing in the hall.

So, ttodd, what are you going to do?

Red - you are too funny! BTW - I checked out Carolina Gull :O) While at SW Friday getting my Irish Cream mixed up I randomly picked up a chip called Rushing River that is like Silver Sage but greyer yet still blue. I think I need to get a color somewhere in-between the SS and not quite as dark as Rushing River. Green really draws out the blue in SS (almost to baby blue) and I want the Baby Turtle to be the only wall color that reads as 'color' if that makes sense.

As for the fabrics - I'm still thinking. I think I need to order a sample of the Colonial Spa 1st. I have a sample of Bosp. Flax already that looks really nice, I just am so drawn to that one pop of blue color in the Colonial Spa that the Bosp. doesn't have.

Yeah, Carolina Gull was too much for my entry. Like you, I prefer colors that read more muted, more ambiguous. That obviously does not apply to the red in my kitchen, but, whatever.....I am mortified to report that I did not go to the fabric store on Saturday. I did go to get my hair cut, plus many other stops, but no fabric. Maybe for my lunch on Monday....
And I want to check out Irish Cream. DD is in the mood to repaint her room. And she thinks she wants a cream.

Red

And have you seen this Abu Dusk?

Red

Here is a link that might be useful: Kind of cool...........