Colors and Fabrics for the Living Room

Are you tired of hearing about our living room yet? Well sorry, friends, you'll have to get used to it because it's the one space in our house that's getting a lot of my attention. Today, I thought it would be fun to chat about fabric choices for our tufted sofa.

The current mauve velvet on the sofa is not staying, so I got to work ordering several samples of cotton velvets from various online fabric stores. There are a lot of good options for less than $20/yard out there(which is a good price according to interior design maven Emily Henderson)! At first I thought I wanted a really neutral sofa, so I ordered samples in cream, beige and silver...but I realized that blue can function as a neutral, too.

Can you guess which color I'm going with?

 Yep, a nice blue with a hint of gray. 

The color plays off the salmon velvet that covers the box cushion bench, as well as working with the Greek embroidered cloth that's atop a round table in the living room. 

Once the tufted sofa is decked out in this yummy blue velvet, I think the room will feel a bit less feminine. I'm going to keep the skirt on our sofa, but have it extend to the floor because our sofa looks like it's preparing for a flood.

Really, what I'm going for is something like Steele Marcoux's sofa, which I first discovered via Fran:

That means you can count on seeing an oversized lumbar pillow on this sofa in the future. 

Stay tuned for more developments!