Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Design Success

Thank you to everyone for your input on the chairs!! I made my choice last Wednesday and was able to cover all the chairs before Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving was great - we had David's grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and family over to eat all the yummy pies (and one cheesecake for me) that David's mom made.

Before:

After:



I thought they turned out super cute! Lately, I have been obsessed with the show "Sarah's House" on HGTV - the one where she redoes the farm house. I have been trying to decorate more how she would - lots of super cute patterns and colors - so I thought the blue striped would work well. Thanks again everyone!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Help Needed! Fast!

David and I are all moved in and we have signed the loan documents! We are officially homeloaners! (That is what David called it). I will post pictures and more details later but first I need design help ASAP!

We purchased this dining set from Ikea - (HUGE thank you to Scott and Angela for putting basically the whole thing together for us!!) I want to cover the seats with fabric so that I have more color in the kitchen area.


For the living room, Angela helped me make these pillows! Yes, you heard right. I actually sewed something! I LOVE them! My color scheme is green and varying shades of brown/tan/white. Here are the pillows we made:

I need help on choosing a fabric to cover the dining chairs with. I want to have this done by Thanksgiving. We are doing all the desserts and games at our house that night. Here are the three fabrics I found at Joann's that I like:





Please give me your opinions! Should I use one of those three or should I reuse one of the pillow fabrics. I only made one small pillow with the green/white circles so I have some left over of that.

I like the striped fabric with blue but I don't know if I should introduce another color in to the scheme or not. Don't they usually only pick about three colors on HGTV? I already have green, white and brown. HELP!

Thank you in advance for all your wonderful opinions!