Lots of Changes in the Living Room

I love fabric and will typically use a fabric as my starting off point for decorating any room. And I did that this time again - only my fabric was just a solid drop cloth.

I'd been feeling like our living room had gotten a little neutral for my liking and when I spotted this faux silk blue plaid at warehousefabricsinc.com, I thought it was perfect!  When the fabric arrived it even matched my robin's egg blue linen perfectly!

I knew that I wasn't satisfied with the slipcover I had made for the round ottoman in this room and thought this faux silk plaid would be perfect to reupholster it with and add some pattern.

I also ordered a beautiful fringe that had all the colors in it to match.

This new plaid also has all the same shades that's in the toile in this room!

With a little bit of furniture rearranging, I feel like I have a whole new room!

I replaced my floral door picture with some French Country cows for Fall.  They've been living in the basement for a while and were ready to come back out.  I didn't like my Blue and White with this new fabric so I gave my secretary a library feel, which I also like for Fall.

I made an overstuffed pillow for the couch out of the same fabric and added the matching fringe.

I put a mix of glass pumpkins and a beautiful teal glass vase filled with dried hydrangeas on a rustic basket tray.

 I've also moved another end table into the room and the mercury glass lamps that were in the family room. I'll probably paint the base of this table the same color as I've painted the others.  I just want to make sure that these changes are gonna stick! ;)

I reupholstered this ottoman with very little sewing.  I'll post later this week how I did it and how you can get perfectly spaced pleats without doing any math! :)

Hope your Summer had a great ending!

love and blessings~

"For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" Galatians 1:27,28

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