This was all for a client that just bought a house at auction and had gutted it, she was ready to pull it all together using the furniture pieces she already had. She was working with one of my favorite Interior Designer clients, Gloria. You may remember Gloria’s quilt slipcover on her front porch.
We did two couches, a chair, ottoman, and a bunch of pillows.

 First couch before

Starting to show some wear.

Second couch before.. notice the flat polyfiber forms.

Chair before

Chair was showing some wear as well.

1st couch after

Second couch after. She used a brushed yellow denim on both couches…so they are super soft and snuggly.

Shot of the whole room.

Chair after. Chair had red gingham fabric used for the piping

A green ticking stripe was used for the piping on the couches.

Here are a few of the pillows we did. All the red floral pillows had a 1″ pleat ruffle going all the same way.

Pillows….make such a difference and add color and finish off a room.

We switched out the flat hard polyfiber forms for 26″ down forms. Down forms always make your pillow look better and more inviting and new.

Chair was out of a red matalesse damask with gingham piping. Matatlesse washes us great and is very durable…and doesn’t tend to wrinkle as much as a regular cotton fabric.

Chair and ottoman turned out great!!!

Close up to show the pleat ruffle on the pillows.

Here’s Camille’s (running partner) Master Bedroom that she let me help her with. She inherited two darling pink floral settees from her Grandma. Instead of trying to fight with them, we went with it and made her room antiquey (is that a word?) and feminine. She loves it… I am not sure if her husband was as thrilled as we were.

We positioned one setee at the end of the bed. I rummaged through all my fabrics and pulled some together for the pillows. The duvet, my sister gave to me. She had bought it at a Down East Tent Sale for $10 and then realized it had a large hole in it, so we just flipped it over and used the back side and folded down the top to show the cute smocking detail.

Here’s the smocking detail on the Duvet.

Here’s a close up of the setee from Camille’s Grandma.

Great clock that she moved from another room.

She also inherited these two lamps from her grandma….they worked perfect!

Her bed is really high and she had some small rickety formica end tables that weren’t working so well in terms of style or scale. One day when we were out, we hit the local thrift store and found two different sewing machine cabinets. They looked a little large, but I thought they’d work great for end tables and she didn’t even have to do any work to them. $35 total for both!

The bedskirt was made from a king size flat sheet she had kicking around in her linen closet. I had just enough to make it work! I used a queen flat sheet for the decking of the bedskirt.

Close up of the pillows

Pillows…floral euro shams, burlap type fabric for standard shams

It was great that we could use what she had and what I had on hand…I think she only spent $35 on the two end tables! That should make her husband happy, even if he has to sleep in a pink room. Oh I forgot she did buy the white dresser for $15 as well off ksl.com. SO $50 total for a master bedroom redo…..well a master bedroom do, it was never done in the first place!

I have now converted her to thinking a bed without a bedskirt…isn’t acceptable.

Jen from Tatertots and Jello Blog emailed me to help her out with her BIG sectional. She ordered some turquoise cotton fabric from fabric.com. The back cushions were getting a little slouchy with the single piping (pillow style), so I ended up “boxing” (box cushion…2 rows of piping) them.

 She loves a boxpleat skirt, so I did a boxpleat skirt all the way around both pieces (2 piece sectional). It wasn’t just a couch and a loveseat piece pushed together…it was 2 full size couches…It was LARGE.

Here is the before…nice, but just brown.

Here is the after. TURQUOISE!!!! She had reservations about the fabric. When I showed up to do the fitting she had her huge stack of 55 yds prewashed fabric sitting there, and she asks me, “What do you think? Am I crazy to do turquoise?”….my answer, “NO…my sectional at the cabin is slipcovered in turquoise fabric”…my second thought in my head, you already bought 55 yds and prewashed it, you can’t return it! So let’s do it!

LOOK how stinkin’ amazing it looks!!!! Bright and Fun and it matched her pillows that she had already made. She said she’s planning on painting the black table behind the couch cream/white.

I had to do little tucks on the back corners on the rolled back separated by piping (that’s where I hid my zipper).

5″ box pleat skirt all the way around.

She loved how cheerful it turned out. She was a great sport to let me come over for the fitting the morning she got back from being out of the country!!!

Her pillows.

Another after shot.

Another view.