Wall coverings are great mood setters that can produce a feeling of warmth and gentleness. Fabric patterns and colors can also give a room a feeling of movement.

The texture of wall and window coverings have a "feel" to the imagination, livening up a room and changing its proportions. A heavily patterned fabric can cause the room to feel busy, more crowded and less intimate than a room with solid color walls. For this reason, sometimes, only one wall is covered while the remaining walls are painted.

Fabric is great for wallcoverings because it's lightweight, inexpensive and often reusable for another project. When using African fabrics to decorate your walls and ceilings, please consider the following:

• Scenic fabric such as korhoga, batik and mudcloth paintings, can be used to create large wall murals which can enlarge a space or draw attention to it. These are quite effective in creating a mood.
• Some types of fabric patterns are more appropriate than others, Large rooms appear at their best when using fabric with large patterns. Small patterns should be used in small rooms.
• Wall coverings are also a great way to cover rough, cracked walls. All of our fabrics can be used to hide architectural eyesores, such as exposed pipes and off-center windows.
• But, if you can't hide it, bring it out. A wall with a bunch of pipes can be made interesting by calling attention to them. If you wrap the pipes in a beautiful fabric, attention is centered on them and they become interesting.
• A warmer or deeper hue fabric color on the end walls of long narrow rooms will make them appear more square.
• Pattern colors change under different types and intensities of lighting. (For example, pink lights make lipstick colors pale, green lights show up wrinkles, amber lights tend to wash out colors.
• Small color samples of fabric will appear brighter when applied in a large area.
• Light colors make small areas look bigger.
• Dark colors make large areas look smaller.