Time for a Change. . .

Hello my friends,

hubby and I have been thinking of buying a new sofa for our family room for a while now.

The one we had wasn't that old, but it just wasn't as comfortable as we thought it would be.

 

Well, we finally took the plunge and one thing led to another. . .

 

 

Yup, the domino effect definitely took place.  :)

 

Once we started looking and narrowed it down to two we started seeing other pieces that we liked.

 

One piece was this table.  It was large and has two drawers on the front side.  Hubby was the one that wanted it.

 

I did like how it matched our entertainment center to a tee.

 

 

This was it's selling point.  Isn't that just like a man to love a table that opens up to a desk where he can place his laptop and his food?  (wink).  Must admit, I've quite liked it myself.

 

The sofa has a touch of both navy and grey.  I think it takes on which ever color you pull out.  I used four of the pillows that we had with our other sectional.  The mustard houndstooth ones came with the sofa.  It also came with 4 navy blue pillows. Two floral and two embossed.  Not having navy in my room I traded them for an aqua chenille.  Yes four of them equaled the price of the one aqua.  Crazy, but true!

 

 

I am still using the two trunks at the end of the sofa.  I haven't grown tired of them yet.

 

 

Here's where the chenille pillow ended up.  On our new deconstructed chair that we picked up at Pier 1 today.

  

I saw the chair on Monday while shopping with my sister.  I've been thinking about it all week and decided to go back and get it.  Guess what?  I walked over to where it was and it was gone.  I thought they had sold it.  I went over to the counter to ask the clerk and there it was.  Turns out they had just moved it.  It truly was a case of musical chairs. 

 

My sister asked what deconstructed meant, so I thought I'd share, just in case some of you don't know.

It's what a chair (or other furniture) would look like if you tore the fabric off the back and exposed the wood.  If you google it, this is what you get.

1. To break down into components; dismantle.

 

I love how the burlap ties in with my curtains.

I also love how neutral it is and will go well with any of my seasonal décor.  Although, I warned my hubby that if I happened upon a fabulous red chair I would not be able to resist.  That's what I had in mind originally.

 

 

I bought this sofa table before we decided for sure on any of the other pieces.  I knew that we had narrowed the sofa down to two sectionals.  The one we bought and a grey leather.  I was at Home Goods with my sister, Jeanne last week and spied this table.  It had a bit of a farmhouse feel and I loved it.  Went back the next day to buy it and it was gone.  So I thought, then hubby spied it in a different spot.  Turns out they had just moved it as well.  Don't they know that us old people have a hard enough time remembering where things are without them moving them around?  lol!

 

 

Now I'm trying to decide if I should white wash my quilt basket, or leave as is?

 

Here are a couple of wide views of the room.

 

 

One more close up of the sectional.

 



This is the sectional we had before.  I did love it, but what we didn't realize when we bought it is that the bottom of the sectional was broken down into small areas, just like the cushions.  It created a hard board underneath on both sides of every cushion.  It made it uncomfortable when hubby laid on it.  It will be passed down to one of our kids.

 





 

I was not tired of my drop cloth covered ottoman, so I'm going to try it in the living room for a change.

 

This is the only photo that I could find quickly of the chair we had.  I am a lover of houndstooth, but was just in the mood for change.  I think it will end up upstairs in the bonus room.

 



 

 Can you believe this color loving girl has gone a bit more neutral?

 

hugs,