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There are a few options here, and none of them are better or “more correct” than any other. A lot of people match their blinds to their floors in terms of colours; but if you have, say, a wooden floor and don’t want wooden blinds, this isn’t going to be an option!
Blinds and soft furniture matching is another option, and yet another is to match the blinds to the walls, particularly with neutrals.
These are just a few ideas/schools of thought, and in the rest of this blog post, I will tell you more about what blinds should match with, depending on the approach you want to take.
What should blinds match with if you want a fairly neutral theme overall?
You can either keep the blind neutral too to match the most prominent colour of the room, or contrast the blinds/use the blinds to add some colour.
What should blinds match with if you want a fairly cohesive one or two-colour theme in the room?
The blinds could match the main colour or accent colour of the room in this case, depending on your tastes, and how bold the colour is and the split between the colours.
For instance, if you used two main colours in the room (not including neutrals) you might want each of the two colours to cover about 50% of the space. Alternatively, you might have one main colour and a secondary or accent colour, which takes up less space; think say, the amount of space a skirting board takes up as opposed to the wall it runs along.
Depending which way you’re going in this regard then, your blinds can make up the final part of the sum to total your colours; to either bring one colour up to taking up around 50% of the space, or to form the smaller, accent colour, or to tip the balance over from 50-50 to favour one colour/your main colour more.
What should blinds match with if you want to make a feature of the blinds themselves?
In this situation, it’s more a case of what should match your blinds than what your blinds should match with.
If your starting point is the blind or you have your heart set on a certain blind colour or design to the point that you’re willing to plan the whole room around including it, your blind comes first and deciding what should match with it comes next.
If your blind has a pattern or design, you might want to get other soft furnishings like cushion covers or bedding to match it. If this isn’t possible or you don’t want to go that route, I’d ensure you go with picking an accent colour that ties into the blind; and avoiding the use of other, prominent prints or designs in the room that might draw attention away from the blind, or even clash with it.
What should blinds match with if you have a patterned carpet or “statement” flooring?
Probably not the floor itself! If you have a bold carpet or rugs, it will probably be hard to match a blind to that, and a little overpowering if you do manage it. I’d suggest sticking with neutral blinds, or those that tie in the colour theme of the floor without directly emulating it.
What should blinds match with in all cases and without exception?
Finally then, this is about the only hard and fast rule for what blinds should match with – and that is the tone of the room and its contents, being warm or cool respectively.
A warm-toned room that has cool-toned blinds (or vice versa) will look off-kilter and out of place, even if many people couldn’t put their fingers on or find the words to explain quite why, or what looks and feels off.
Matching the colour tone of the room with your blinds is important; far more so than matching the material or colours specifically!
