I need a man's opinion and my husband will just say, "Whatever you want, Honey." He is a smart one!
I am making some headway in my son's room redo. By headway I mean filling up garbage bags with stuff that should NOT have been in his closet and staring at mystery stains on the carpet.
I have also made a few purchases that I am delighted with.
The walls will be a deep,smoky navy. SW Naval 6642 to be exact and the bed will have charcoal, silver and navy fabrics. The bed is a dark wood and I have a midcentury dresser that is also fairly dark.
Unlike my indecisiveness with my kitchen chairs, I've got this one figured out.
I want it to be a masculine, moody space with a hint of Bohemian vibe. Enough Boho to be interesting not questionable.
Here are a few of my inspiration images.
So here is the only part that I am unsure about.
The office chair on wheels has to go but I will need a chair in the room. I can raid the furniture graveyard basement for a chair and recover it. My mind jumped immediately to my Escher pagoda fabric...
But is Chinoiserie too feminine?
Ladies, please weigh in too.
13 comments:
I love the fabric, but I think its too feminine for a masculine space.
I would agree that it's too feminine for the chair, but a pillow or two would probably work.
Also think it s too feminine...
Ozana
How about a ticking stripe for a chair or there are so many gorgeous manly fabrics out there. I agree with the others on not this Escher print this time. Love what's going on though!!!
xo Nancy
It is one of my favorites, but I don't think of it as masculine.
Kerry, how about a buffalo plaid in navy/cream? That would not take away from the bohemian vibe. Another, if you can get enough of any other fabric in the bedding(?) for example to tie it in.
Xoxo
Karena
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Agree with the majority...a little on the feminine side.
How much of it on what kind of chair? Could you make the fabric in a different colorway to make it more masculine? The pattern isn't really feminine so I don't see why it can't work, just depends on quantity I think.
well -AS a gentleman, I would say the chinoiserie is probably a bit too feminine -but ask the guy in question. He may like it, particularly as you designed it!
I think that toile in general can be feminine, but Escher has an edge to it that I think would be fine in a masculine space. The dark colorway butches it up a little too. I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
I don't think of Chinoiserie as necessarily feminine--toile, yes--but in that particular blue-& white colorway, this one reads that way. Maybe a trip to a gray dye bath would reduce the girly factor, although a lot of people have issues with messing around with brand-new fabric. Not me.
But what would bother me more than the the perceived gender of the fabric itself is using it (or any traditional patterned fabric) on a clean-lined task chair. It just seems wrong. I still have flashbacks of a George Nelson Marshmallow sofa gussied up with candy stripes & bright florals. Serves me right for picking up a copy of Domino.
I love the fabric but would not put it in my son's room.
I love Nancy's idea about the ticking stripe!
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