Mix Prints & Patterns On A Bed, step by step

Who has two thumbs and scored a lively new crisscross pillow for $2.63? This girl.

A recent trip to Bed Bath & Beyond ended in one of my best scores to date. Digging through the discount pillow bin yielded this beauty that was marked down by 50% and then marked down again, this time by 75% off the sale price. Yup, for simply $2.50 plus thirteen cents of tax, this crazy striking lattice pillow came home with me. Look how glad it is on the bed with its other pillow friends:

A lot of people ask us how to mix patterns and prints, and this new pillow conveniently demonstrates a few of our go-to pattern mixing pointers. First of all, you want one of the prints or patterns to be a larger scale, more bold pattern (the pillow) while the other pattern is smaller in scale and a bit more subtle (the duvet cover). It is typically a good idea for the smaller sized item to be the more bold piece (ex: a subtle small-scale patterned armchair paired with a graphic large-scale patterned pillow). Although we have seen some majorly dramatic rooms with large geometric or floral patterns in the curtains or even on the walls that knock our socks off, so it can go either way.

The other thing to keep in mind when you are mixing and matching would be to try to keep the patterns or prints in the same color family. Thanks to the similar tone found in both the duvet cover and the pillow they do not seem to be fighting each other and can peacefully coexist in our peaceful master bedroom. Here is the close up. Is not she a beaut?

And here is my receipt. Gotta enjoy a low-cost thrill every now and then.

Especially one that makes the cashier do a double take. She could not believe the price. And I could not believe my luck. Here is to major markdowns and digging through those clearance bins! Glad hunting…