New Pillows and Skirted Coffee Table

If I were a piece of furniture, I would be this chair...




Or at least I would wish I looked like this chair and the jealousy would tear me up inside- I mean who does she think she is with those curvy arms and that sassy skirt, kicky trim and inverted pleats up to there! Don't hate her because she's beautiful.



I just love this whole room...



Okay, this whole house! It's the 2009 Southern Living Georgia Idea House.


Here's the dining room:




I guess I love this spa blue and red color combo because I'm also terribly smitten with this ocean front house by Windsor Smith.

Then one day as I was drooling over these photos I realized, I could totally rock this color combo in my livin' room, y'all! (BTW-why is it that my blogging voice occasionally sounds like Amy Poehler doing Britner Spears?!)

I already have some little shots of the spa blue color in lumbar pillows on my sofas and my adjoining foyer is red!

Here's my living room a few months ago right after I finished slipcovering this sofa...


And here it is today, all spruced up with a few newly made pillows...

I made them as zip-off pillow covers so that I could easily reuse pillows I already owned inside and adding the zipper was much easier than I thought it would be!

And here's a closeup of the pillow fabrics...

The red trim on the blue pillows is just grosgrain ribbon.

Here are more pillows on the other sofa...

and here's the view into the foyer...

I love that the red from the foyer is now incorporated into the living room color scheme...

Here are the built-ins still decked in Christmas decor- I took all of it down today and I'm planning to paint the backs the same pale blue before I rearrange them. I loved the red Christmas plates up there and I'm hoping to find some red and white transferware plates to display here year round.

Here's a shot of the room. Now you can see my other little project...

I was considering upholstering my coffee table, partially because I love the look, and partially because I'm so tired of cleaning sweet little sticky fingerprints off of it! But after spying several rooms like this one by Suzanne Reinstein where the table seems to be wearing a fitted skirt...

I decided to slipcover my coffee table instead- beacause, apparently I'll slipcover anything that isn't tied down!

I decided on one inverted pleat above each leg instead of the frilly ruffle and there are little ties on the inside to keep it in place. I love that I can take it off and wash it, and my table top is protected from little hands!

I'd be more than happy to give a detailed tutorial on how to make the coffee table slipcover and how to make zippered pillow covers if a few people are interested! Please comment and let me know if you're interested!

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