Small florals: the scale of the pattern

A comparison of floral pattern scales in the same low-ceilinged small room. On the left, large floral patterns suitable for a mansion: printed cotton fabric with individual flowers over twenty centimeters in diameter, which looks great in a high-ceilinged large room, but when placed in a small cottage with a 2.2-meter ceiling, one flower takes up half a pillow, the pattern is cut off, the scale is out of control, and the room appears even smaller and more cramped. On the right, patterns suitable for a cottage: dense, small floral patterns with individual flowers only two to three centimeters, high density, low saturation, appearing almost as a soft color rather than a pattern from a distance, with flower shapes only discernible up close. Thus, the pattern does not clash with the small-scale space. Avoid: making the two look identical, using large-scale patterns in a small cottage, increasing the saturation of the small floral patterns, changing the scale of the room and furniture.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩種花卉圖案在同一個低矮小房間裡的比例對照。左側是宅邸用的大花:單朵直徑二十公分以上的印花棉布,在挑高的大房間裡很好看,但放進兩米二高的小屋裡,一朵花就佔掉半個枕頭,圖案被切斷、比例失控,房間顯得更小更擠。右側是小屋用的:單朵只有兩三公分的細密碎花,密度高、彩度低,遠看幾乎是一片柔和的顏色而不是圖案,近看才辨認得出花形。因此圖案不會與小尺度的空間打架。避免:讓兩者看起來相同、在小屋使用大尺度的圖案、把碎花的彩度提高、改變房間的尺度與家具。