Our Family Room Updates

our family room is still transforming and it is finally taking shape.  i find it strange that i originally started this project with one color scheme and finally two styles later, i found the right look! strangely, i have bought things along that way that are now working, like the mid-century bottle in the above photo. the funny thing is that my latest color choices and style all started with the little wooden box that i painted in a chalk paint class. the color that is annie sloan’s french linen and i fell in love with it at first sight. it has a very calm and rich color that nicely compliments the white that embodies this room. this room has been quite the long process and i’m sure my family is confused about the many purchased objects that have come and gone. i never take the tags off my items until i’m totally sure i’m going to keep them. my husband calls me the return queen. so anyway, i thought i would bring you along my journey to finding the right pillows and the right look for this room.  

come back later in the week:

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wednesday ~ my latest purchase from ikea

friday ~ inspirations

sunday ~  a yummy new zealand fruit pavlova 

so originally the sofa was an olive green and i tried all kinds of different colored pillows. my husband doesn’t notice many of my decorating shenanigans, but he did noticed that new pillows kept popping up in our house! of course these pillows just fell flat against the green sofa.  notice all the tags are still on the one pair.  :o)

ok at this point, i tried some throws from pottery barn.  i was thinking maybe the sofa could be buried by the throws. well, none of it was working. so i returned the throws to pottery barn and was thinking that i needed to change the dark moss colored sofa cover. i was fighting this notion since i thought that our love seat was a special size and that they would have to custom make a cover!

so i found a place on-line that has the slipcovers for futons and it turns out that our love seat size futon is a standard size and that i would only cost $50 to buy a white canvas one. so, i quickly ordered another cover and immediately when i covered my futon mattress with it, i knew this was the right color. i also added a lime green pillow that seem to work somewhat, but still wasn’t the solution. the mission continues, my husband said i’m one of the obsessive, compulsive people he knows!

then i took a basic chalk paint class and i immediately fell in love with this annie sloan color, french linen. i quickly decided that this was the look for our family room.  i had tried the whole aqua and powder blue colors, but it wasn’t natural enough for me. i was really trying hard to make this color combo work in this room, but i was forcing it when it wasn’t a great fit. but, this french linen is a color that feels more in sync with my personality, so i think the decorating will flow a little easier.

i made a trip to target and found all these wonderful pillows that are perfect! the grey ticking pillow caught my eye immediately and then the others followed. i bought the bee pillow since it picks up the lime green lamp shades.  i’m liking how the dash and albert rug goes so well with this new color scheme. hooray! the grey fleece throw is one that i have had a long time, and now i think it has found a home on this couch!

i’m also quite happy that the dark wood frame goes well with my new color scheme, it adds a nice accent to the room.  i tried to echo the wood color in the the pillows.  also, the brown is echoed in my little wooden box handles that i chalk painted. it all works out one way or another, just give every project time to settle and find itself. i’m learning that patience is so important to decorating a room!