This is such a pretty photo of my little living room...taken by the super talented team of
Victoria Pearson and Heather Bullard
for Country Living Magazine
Victoria Pearson and Heather Bullard
for Country Living Magazine
those are some very old and creaky windows
on the wall behind the pine bench, so I'm really glad they don't show !
We have some fun and interesting plans in the works for that wall
( a new space for dining and entertaining!)
( a new space for dining and entertaining!)
but that's another story
So lets talk about the couch...
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the story with this couch
(why does all of my furniture have a story? too weird)
(why does all of my furniture have a story? too weird)
is that I basically got it for free,
well almost free...
When we bought this house I needed a small couch and
I had tons of American Express Rewards points so
I turned them into Pottery Barn gift cards
and bought a couch...yep it was quite a few gift cards
Here is the couch in the catalog:
It is called the Greenwich Loveseat
and
the lines are clean and simple
with plenty of room for pillows
I also thought that it would look great slip covered without being too frilly
Because the living room is rather long and narrow, there are only a few ways to place the furniture
so the back of couch can be seen most of time.
I know that doesn't sound like a big problem but how often do
we really think about how the back of a couch looks?
And what fabric to use for the slip covers?!
Once again I called on my wonderful friend Wendy Lewis
I purchased some wonderful faded floral fabric
very similar to this
my original plan was to slip cover the cushions in the floral and the rest of the couch
in white or cream linen...
but in the end the fabric seemed lightweight and bit too feminine
and maybe not quite strong enough to hold up to
dogs, muddy shoes and coffee stains
So how about thick French Linen sheets?
Perfection!
I purchased 3 really big sheets.
Two with red monograms like this one
and one with a white monogram and ladder cut work like this one
Because the living room is rather long and narrow, there are only a few ways to place the furniture
so the back of couch can be seen most of time.
I know that doesn't sound like a big problem but how often do
we really think about how the back of a couch looks?
And what fabric to use for the slip covers?!
Once again I called on my wonderful friend Wendy Lewis
I purchased some wonderful faded floral fabric
very similar to this
in white or cream linen...
but in the end the fabric seemed lightweight and bit too feminine
and maybe not quite strong enough to hold up to
dogs, muddy shoes and coffee stains
So how about thick French Linen sheets?
Perfection!
I purchased 3 really big sheets.
Two with red monograms like this one
and one with a white monogram and ladder cut work like this one
None of them match
but the weight is very similar
and they feel old and washed and very antique!
Just what I was looking for...
Next post...
Part 2
getting creative and putting it all together
