Looking at Oreo passed out on the pillow, I realize now that I need to pick up two Fall pillows for my sofa. I have Xmas ones to go there. I'm sure she won't care if I replace 'her' pillow with another one. LOL. Yach, the geese are my favorite thing also. I love them, still can't get over how cheap they were. My kind of bargain. Cherie, my DH like yours....so it's usually just me and the invisible "genies" here too. LOL hugs, Karen

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Can the chair pillows work on the couch somehow, perhaps layered with other pillows you have there? If not, consider just making new covers - you don't have to get rid of the insides. If they are a standard size square, like 116x16 or 18x18, you can even use my favorite cheating technique. Regular cloth dinner napkins sewn back to back, will work perfectly to cover them. They are already hemmed, so you sew the three sides together, often right in the existing hem stitching, tuck in the pillow, then sew the fourth edge together. No hemming, turning, seaming, etc. Check out some of the places that sell linens, and you will be amazed at the great patterns you will find. Often sold in sets of four, even on ritzy sites like Horchow. If you can sew a straight line, you can do this. I am not crazy about the solid color pillows. I think the burlap could work, but might be kind of dead against the chair color. I like the toile, but it seems too similar in pattern size to the chairs to really work. Funny, I like the floral pillow in the lamp pix you showed. Is that Pottery Barn? I think I saw it. I am also wondering (and gee, I am hoping I remember this correctly) if you have any fabric left from your window treatments in the kitchen? If I am remembering correctly, you used the jacobean floral with the black background? Might be too much with the black, but if you have a remnant that you could throw on the chair, could be worth a shot to at least take a look. One other thing you could try with the pillows is to find a contrasting fabric that has the red of the pillow, plus some of the warmer gold tones from the chair and walls, etc and tie a 'sash' around each pillow, knotted in the center and short ends just left on either side. A plaid or small print could work well for that. Finally, and this one pains me because it is expensive, is this pillow cover. I am guessing you could use the existing pillows as the inserts, but it is still a lot of $$. Still, I think one of these on each chair would be stunning, and pulls all the colors from the painting and the room, plus the effective size of the design is much larger than the chair print, so no fighting! LOL katherine floral embroidered pillow

From drab to kind of fab! Whitewashed the brick and built a new mantle to go over the existing. Still unsure about the mantle decor and what to hang there , but I'm loving it already!