Sofa So Good

If you watch any home decorating show for any period of time, you are sure to hear the professional designers tell you that “Sofas should be nice and neutral. Leave the patterns and wacky stuff to the pillows and accessories.” Yes, fine. That’s good advice. Sure.

But does that rule apply 100% of the time? No way flambe. Sometimes you want to be like Laura from Laura Thoughts who reupholstered this loveseat and said, “I wanted to go with something dramatic, I wanted a statement piece, something showy and not even a little bit safe.”

Not even a little bit safe! Ha! I love it. Let’s see how it turned out …

That sound you just heard was Laura nailing it. Didn’t she do a great job? She also replaced the old legs – which appear to have been made from hunks of raw lumber – with a curvy new set.

But wait! There is literally more!

Laura also shared her talents with this droopy couch, which actually had nice bones if you could look past that tragic fabric and general air of Dirty College Dorm that it was giving off.

 

 

Quatrefoil for the win! So chic. And doesn’t it look better with two large cushions instead of four little ones? And wouldn’t it look even better with buttons? If you think so, then hop on over to her blog Laura Thoughts because (spoiler alert!) she added buttons.

 

Don’t feel bad if all this sofa-gazing has you wishing you had room to squeeze a cute little sitting area into some corner of your house too. Why not put one outside? And why not make it out of a cast iron bathtub? Anything is possible, if you put your mind to it. And your cement saw.

 

 

Isn’t this the CUTEST? Ariean had a cast iron tub that had followed her around for too long, and one day her husband gave her an ultimatum: figure out something to do with the darn tub or it goes. So she did! After much cutting and grinding and painting and sewing, she created a one-of-a-kind bathtub-sofa for her patio.

I also love her fearless choice of fabrics, mixing patterns like nobody’s business. Because it isn’t! If you want to mix fabrics and patterns and have a non-neutral sofa, then who’s to say you can’t? I say you go for it girlfriend.

More to see on her blog One Krieger Chick.