I'm a Fool for Slip Covers

Before I get to the meat of this day's post,

I want to give a shout out to Judy Clark!!!!!

SHE SENT ME A PRESENT!!!!!!

Now, this is not a plug for more stuff, 'cuz to be honest, 

I usually don't like the gifts that I get.

But boy, did she nail it on the head!!!!!

I'm not sure where I'm going to put him. 

I wont' know till I go back down to Flerida.....

But he's going to fit right in to my bird collection, 

SOOOOOOOOOOO.........

Judy.....

THANK YOU!!!!!

Now, back to my Massachusetts home.....

Last time I showed you some slip cover details.....

I lifted up a little corner of a slip cover to show what was underneath....

Matter of fact, I didn't even bother to show this picture.....

Boy am I lazy!!!!

So I gave myself a stern talking to..... 

and pulled the slip cover off the chair.....

and took pictures to share,

(whoa baby! I just made a rhyme!!!!!)

 so you can see what a 

TRANSFORMATION

a well detailed cover can make.

This is the way the chair looks neekid....

It was my winter look in my house in Watertown.

I added a lot of little flourishes to the arms

 and back.....

which I had to work around with the slip cover.....

If I can add unnecessary details I will!!!!!

So I had the fabric that folded into the pleat be a contrast green strie.

One detail that I don't feel is an unnecessary addition is 

CONTRAST WELT!!!!!

YES YES YES!!!!

So the ties and welting were a solid green.....

Ties make a nice touch, rather than a zipper....

Add in the scalloped bottom edged in trim....

And you have got one stylin' chair!!!!!

So, I have a winter look,                                    and a summer look!!!!!

Now, to all the nice folks who have wished me a speedy recovery from my rotator cuff surgery.

THANK YOU!!!!

But I had that operation 3 years ago......

I was just making the point of how I like mood altering drugs to admire my living room.

THAT WAS WHY.....

I was wondering what surgery to have NEXT!!!!!

Latah, Gatah

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It's all in the DEATAILS!

Wow, talk about a gorgeous day here in Massachusetts.....

Not a cloud in the sky,
upper 70's to low 80's.....

So I took this picture of one of my peonies.....

If it were like this all the time, it would be as crowded as LA.

But we only get 2 days like this a year, so don't worry.....

(I don't know why I just wrote don't worry..... most of you don't live around here,

 so you don't give a rat's behind about the weather or the crowding.....jesh)

Anyway.....

Back to the tour of my living room.....

We left off here...

And I threatened  mentioned that I would show you guys details of the room.

Soooooo....

Let's start with the coffee table!!!!!

It's a bench.....

I had it slip covered.......

I paid to have it slip covered.......

Oy, Oy, Oy.....

I didn't know then that I could do slip covers!!!!!

But the nice lady did a good job....

I love the look of a boxed pleat!

Yes, I do!!!!

Yes!! Indeedy!!!!!!!!!

It adds so much style to a piece with very little effort.

(Especially if someone else is doing the sewing!!!!!)

By adding a tape trim to the top, it brings the table to a whole different vibe than the original look.

When it gets dirty from my dainty feet...

(yes, yes, yes!!! I put my feet on the coffee table!!!!!!!)

I throw it in the washing machine and it comes out all clean again!!!!

That's the big advantage of slip covers, although to be perfectly honest....

I slip cover stuff cuz I like the way it looks!

I had the two small arm chairs slip covered in my beloved 

cabbage rose fabric....

I like to add interesting details to the bottom edge of slip covers....

Scallops are fun, especially when I don't have to sew them....

And then I added a little button...

The other chair had large tassels on the back that we had to work around....

So there's a slit through which they can poke.....

The white slipcovers in the room came with the furniture when I bought it from Crate and Barrel. 

The chairs aren't very comfortable, but they were well priced and I like the look of them, and no one sits in the living room but 

ME ME ME!!!

Everyone else gravitates to the family room.

I love the living room the most after surgery.

The couch is comfortable, and I put my feet up on the coffee table/ottoman

and I get high on my pain killers.....

and I look around the room on a really good buzz, thinking to myself.....

I REALLY LOVE THIS ROOM!!!!

Almost makes the rotator cuff surgery worth it....

Almost, 

Just almost.

I wonder what other operations I need.......

Latah, Gatah

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