On Tuesday I posted about my mother’s porch swing and the accent pillows from Terrain that I suggested she add to the mix.

Aqua Thistle pillow, Terrain, $54
And then I was perusing Tonic Living for fabric for DC’s room and I saw this…

Sweet William Teal, Tonic Living, $9.95 a yard
Finally, I found the same pillow at Tonic Living for $24.95, SCORE!
Posted by Sarah on Thursday Feb 4, 2010 Under textiles
Its at Aubrey+Lindsay’s blog, (the champs of the Ikea Rast Overhaul), where I read about Tonic Living. All this talk of fabric swatches for $1 is what drew me in. I went and I ordered.
I ordered this outdoor pillow for the little sofa on my porch, this little ditty was $9.95 on clearance and I couldn’t pass it up. There were several other cute pillows on sale that were $10-$12 each.

And because I’d like to recover some vintage club chairs (in the next 10 years) in my living room, I ordered these samples for a buck a piece.




I am really taken by a classic ticking stripe. The example given below is the very sophisticated and timeless loveseat at Lauren’s apartment from Good Bones, Great Pieces. This apartment was featured in this month’s issue of Traditional Home.

Truthfully, I’m terrified of upholstering those chairs in something trendy, incurring all that expense and hating them a couple of years from now. It’s so tempting to trick them out in some graphic print but I must resist.