Fabric Photoshop

I recently ordered some fabric swatches from this fantastic website. Carousel Designs is a baby bedding company but they have some really cute graphic fabrics. I want to make some curtains to go in our living room so I ordered a handful of swatches and quickly narrowed those down to 3 favorites. Step one was to use Frog Tape to stick them to the trim around the windows. This allowed me to get a bit of a visual as to how the finished product would work (sorry for the different shades of green on the walls. My white balance wasn't agreeing with me).

Option #1: Gray Ikat pattern with a yellow center.

Option #2: Green Ikat pattern with a blue center.

Option #3: Navy blue graphic pattern.

At this point Phil's favorite was option 2 and I was leaning towards option 1. I decided that I needed some better visual aids. Enter my buddy, Photoshop.

Option #1:

Option #2:

Option #3:

Phil was watching Ip Man 2 while I took pictures.

After these imperfect renderings I'm leaning towards Options #1 and #3. I think Option #2 is just a little too much green for the space. #1 is my current favorite but there's something about that graphic navy pattern in #3 that makes me a little giddy. 

What do you think? What's your favorite?

Photoshop Life

I seriously have a problem. An addiction. Photoshop. I should be packing since we move in 7 days and my goal is to be done packing in 4 days. But what am I doing instead? Photoshop-ing what our future living room would look like with certain furniture in it. It all started because I wanted to see what the room would look like with built-in shelves around the fireplace. Once I learned how to distort images so they actually looked like they somewhat belonged there I had to do the whole room.... It pains me to say this is what I've been doing for the past...hour and a half.

If we ever do build shelves around the fireplace they won't look quite like that, but similar. Somewhere we can display some frames, books, and whatever other knick-knacks we accrue along the way. Then I joked with Phil that I could probably find a picture of our couch and make it look like it somewhat belonged. So...I did. I added the pillows that Emmie recommended for us, some pretty blue chevron curtains, and a super cute tufted ottoman. I think I like it. I'm not sure how I feel about the green walls/blue curtains though. What do you think?