New (surprisingly challenging) Home Project

Beau and I recently purchased a new sofa and love seat for the living room! We did plenty of shopping and talking and shopping some more before we decided on leather. Our new couches came with 9 pillows - score! 9 pillows that match nothing in our home - boooo. BUT, this means a new throw pillow project for me - score!! My idea for these pillows is to cover them in light colors since the leather is pretty dark. 


Here are the only pics I have of the new couches but they will do for the sake of this blog entry:

The insides of these pillows are a whopping 24x24 but can be stuffed into a 19x19 cover if needed. I know this because I randomly bought a hand-painted pillow cover on our honeymoon that fits nicely. Now that I think about it, how random is that purchase?! Glad I did though b/c fortunately it has the colors I want to use and I like the idea of personalizing this project. 

 I can't stop thinking about these. Of course, the Etsy vendor sold them by the time I was ready to pull the trigger (what, 3 weeks later?!) but I'm thinking about reaching out to her about my custom size in this print. If she even still has the fabric. 

It's important to me that I mix solids and textures in if I do a busy print like the 2 above since I'm dealing with NINE pillows! I love this knit...but would need cream.

And maybe another textured solid like this...

Back to personalization, I'm liking this but not sure if it's more of a bedding pillow. Jury is still out on monogramming a couch pillow...and this print is a little holiday for my liking but you get the idea...

Anyway, who knows what I will end up with or how long this process will take but I'm having fun with it!