Pillow Sham Sizes

If you are bored with the same old home décor theme and want to change it for good, then there are a lot of options available for you. One of the easiest and affordable things that you can do is to use beautiful pillow shams to decorate pillows and add glamor to your home furniture as well as outdoor furniture. Pillow shams are decorative pillow covers that are used for spicing up any ordinary looking room. All that you need to do is to pick some desired pillow sham sizes and place them strategically and creatively. Pillow shams create an excellent home decor, which is very refreshing.

Considerations for Pillow Sham Sizes
Though they are referred as decorative pillow covers, pillow shams create illusion of decorative pillows, without appearing as a removable cover. Using pillow shams serves various purposes. You can either choose some simple and less embellished design patterns for shams and then use them as pillow covers, or you can cover the regular pillows including covers, with embroidered or designer pillow shams for daybed and use the same pillows at night. Common sizes of pillows include, standard size, king size, queen size, travel size and Euro or continental size. Pillow shams are available in all these sizes and hence, finding a perfect fitting pillow shams for your pillows is basically not a problem.

Pillow Types	Pillow Sizes	Sham Sizes
Standard Size	20 x 26 inches	20 x 26 inches
King Size	20 x 36 inches	20 x 36 inches
Queen Size	20 x 30 inches	20 x 30 inches
Euro Size	26 x 26 inches	26 x 26 inches
Travel Size	12 x 16 inches	12 x 16 inches
Twin Size	20 x 26 inches	20 x 26 inches

As you can see from the table above, queen pillow sham size is about 20 x 30 inches, while you need to king pillow sham size is 20 x 36 inches, while European pillow sham size is 26 x 26 inches, since it is a square shaped pillow. Standard pillow sham size is same as twin/double pillow sham size. When you purchase twin or double size comforter set, you get 2 standard pillow shams in it. While a king size comforter set includes three standard size or two king size pillow shams.

Decorating with Pillow Shams
It's time to learn various ways to spice up your home décor with them. The most commonly used pillow sham types are the Euro pillow shams, that are used for creating a unique backdrop for all the smaller sized pillows. You can either use Euro pillows or opt for other larger pillows like king size or standard size pillows to create a backdrop. Throw pillow shams on the other hand are ideally used on sofas, couches, and patio benches. Since they are smaller and available in various shapes, they can be used in larger quantity to add up to the coziness of your dwelling. Larger shams including Euro pillow shams are ideal for bedrooms, rather than living room or patio furniture articles. Apart from the aforementioned types of pillow shams, you can also use ruffled pillow shams that come with ruffled sides that give a sort of girly feel, which is ideal for girl's bedroom. The most elegant and luxurious type of pillow shams are the bridal pillow shams and satin pillow shams. They are used as ring-bearer pillows as well as an elegant touch up to the regular chairs.

The best thing about pillow shams is their price range, which is pretty affordable unless you want an out-and-out designer sham set.