My Favorite Pattern Tool

If I was a existent designer together with had a purse of tricks, this ane would live at the exceed of my list!  I'm such a visual person, nonetheless indecisive at times, that when I convey an stance I actually similar to run across what it mightiness expect similar for existent inwards my space.

So, enter....photo editing!  With a photograph of the infinite I'm working with, I plow to this tool over together with over again.

Last calendar week when working on an organisation for the artwork for my dining room, I played or hence on the reckoner earlier I framed ane impress or hammered ane nail.

Trying several unlike arrangements actually gave me a experience of the expect I wanted.  Clearly this would convey been going overboard...

I liked this ane o.k. but it didn't add together whatever height-everything felt brusk together with squaty.

I finally settled on this arrangement.

Then I used painter's record to seat the prints on the wall, only to brand certain I liked how it was looking inwards existent life.

And, the lastly product:

Here are a few other projects that started amongst a mock-up photo.  Yes, these are VERY stone oil mock-ups, but they confirmed my plans together with motivated me to proceed.

I imagined what it would live similar to convey a big dark-green box inwards the dining room...

and what the backs of the bookshelves inwards the living room mightiness expect similar painted inwards a nighttime color...

and what the shelves inwards the part would expect similar if I painted the backs to fit the walls together with left the residuum stained wood...

and what my daughter's wall mightiness expect similar amongst stripes.

I don't convey Photoshop which would laissez passer on to a greater extent than detailed results, hence I run my normal editing program, Picmonkey.  If you're non familiar amongst it, it's an online super slow program.  There aren't specific drawing tools, but I run the "Overlays" tab on the left side together with hence the "Geometrics" category together with lead the shapes I desire to larn closed plenty results.  Most of the features are gratis but in that place are some that require a membership.  I larn along only fine without it.  Really all you lot take away is a computer program that volition allow you lot play or hence amongst shapes together with colors.

What's your best pattern tool/trick when thinking almost a novel space?

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