My Friends Took Pattern Drenching To The Next Level With Spoonflower

I love having creative friends and will brag about them endlessly – especially those who are braver than I am design-wise. I can be so safe and care so much about “timelessness” (especially with permanent finishes) so being friends with people who take risks so naturally, without second guessing is so fun for me. So today I’m showing you my friend Annie’s den/bonus room that has pink wall-to-wall carpet, a vintage school popcorn maker, and the same Spoonflower fabric pattern on the sofa, walls, window shades, vintage dining chairs, AND window seats. IT’S SO WILD. Annie is a designer who mostly invests and sells houses but NOT in a normal way – there is nothing generic in her rooms. And she ends up selling them all to Gen Z YouTubers, influencers, or pop stars. This is her home in Toluca Lake that she shares with her husband Derik DBone Reckle (a musician – check out his album here!), 11-year-old daughter Violet, and three pups. During the year-long remodel she told me that she was planning on pattern drenching this entire room in the same Spoonflower wallpaper and fabric pattern and I all but begged to come and shoot it even before I had a partnership with Spoonflower. But be prepared to see some risks that might surprise you – like that lamp! I have such feelings about that lamp! (and so does TikTok – but, let’s just say the opposite feelings). When we styled it we really leaned into their style which is very rock ‘n roll, totally funky, wild, and highly creative. I pulled from the rest of her house, hung their guitars and art, and embraced all the things that make them THEM. Color, vintage, and in this case even some kitsch (can you spot the velvet paintings?)

Floral Fabric | Floral Wallpaper

The star of the room IMHO (besides them) is that incredible vintage round sectional that they had reupholstered in this Spoonflower velvet fabric a few years ago for their old house – which inspired the whole pattern-drenching idea. I can solidly say this is the genius thing about Spoonflower – that you can get the same pattern for so many different applications. There are companies that offer fabrics and wallcoverings, sure, but not to their level. For this project, Annie chose velvet fabric for the sofa, linen for the shades, and pre-pasted wallpaper for the walls (but they also have cotton, canvas, traditional paper, and removable wallpaper). It’s so incredible to be able to provide all these options and why I wanted to tell this story.

This room is a bonus room upstairs and when they have friends over with kids they send them all up here to do their worst. They pulled the pink out of the pattern and went wall-to-wall with the carpet (which we love for this type of room – so soft). Annie loves vintage and had been hoarding these lucite chairs for a while so she had her upholsterer redo the seats and backs in the same velvet.

We hung the art and guitars and decided that the controversial lamp was worth keeping (Gen Z on TikTok love these lamps but I KNOW that that feeling will not be shared by everyone).

Annie pulled the yellow from the fabric as well and painted the window trim, built-ins, and ceiling in this deep butter color. I personally want her to wallpaper the ceiling or paint it the dark green color – just to really go for it. But I love these little seats and the round pillows she had made as well.

The same fabric covers the window treatments along that big bank of windows, and we tried to shoot all of them closed so you could get the full effect, but it was impossible to see, ha. But ideal for a TV or movie watching during the day! Here’s a sample of what they look like closed:)

I think this sectional against the wallpaper is so powerful and really shows you the impact that pattern drenching can have. Yes, this was a thing in the 50s and again in the 80s, and yes, I am a bit scared to do it myself, but it’s SUCH A VIBE to be in Read More