Ikat patterns are a great opportunity to bring in color in a traditional way. This is going to be one of the patterns that you see a lot of both in the Southwest as well as the global inspired kind of look. The global inspired look has replaced a lot of the specific country looks such as the Tuscan kind of vibe that used to be popular. You can even bring this into your outdoor furniture or use it on your garden gazebo canopy curtains or sun shades. In fact this pattern used to appear outdoors a lot more than indoors but it’s one of the few patterns that has made the transition from the patio into high end design.
The great thing about the Ikat pattern is it does use so many rich colors altogether that one of them is sure to match your accessories. It brings in all different kinds of accent colors so that you can really collect souvenirs from your travels or at least your shopping trips.
Usually we just see this pattern in a lot of cobalt blues and terra cotta colors. I like to also use woven texture with it by going with more of a bamboo blind. Usually this can have warm undertones to it, which is going to relate back to that Ikat fabric. However, it does bring the natural element into a room. It also provides you with a lot of different options for energy efficiency in the summer, as well as just deciding how much light you want to filter out at any one time.
To me, the only thing that you really need to be cautious about is that you don’t want this to look like the outdated eighties curtains, which means you want to stay away from certain color palettes. These include peach as well as sage green. Sure, you can use either one of these colors but don’t use the two of them together. Placing either one of them against a crisp white, or even an ivory is really going to modernize this concept. It’s not just for the typical Southwest room anymore. It’s a little bit of a softer pattern than the popular chevron curtains that are around. Sure, it does use a lot of bold colors, but that doesn’t mean that you have to be scared of Ikat curtains.