1. Cover the seat first. Attach adhesive velcro along the sides of each cushion, close to the edge where the fabric meets the chair frame. 2. Make side panels with the scallops on the bottom, measuring your chair from corner to corner, and adding 1" for side seams. A good finished length for the panels would be approximately 6", so add 1" to this measurement for seam allowances. Cut two pieces of fabric, one for the outside, one for the lining, using a deco fabric and a lining fabric, or two pieces of the same fabric. 3. Then cut 4" of material and lining fabric to make the inside corner pleats, cut the same length as your side panels. Cut two pieces of each, one of the fabric and one of a lining material. 4. Sew a strip of velcro 1/2" from the top of each lining piece, to 1" from each side. Place your fabric and the lining piece face to face, and sew the two pieces together with a 1/2' seam on both sides and the bottom. Turn right side out, and press the seams. 5. Do the same with the 4" corner material. Then turn in the top edges and sew a seam close to the edge of each piece. This top edge would lay against the seat cushion side, and would have the velcro strip already attached to the lining on the underside of the panel. For the corner pieces, you could use velcro spots attached to the wood. 6. Attach corner pieces at each corner first, then attach each side panel to cushion.

Great story Woodie! I guess I should order some swatches before I make my final decision. Also consult with SO. I know he is going to hate #4, he doesn't like "cozy granny" style at all! Although I know he likes that wine color. But he likes beige and brown too. Wondering about the linen one, there's some logic in using a slipcover that ANNOUNCES it is a slipcover, but I'm not sure if those one piece ones would be a continual sloppy problem. We don't have kids around to play fort on the couch unfortunately, but I lounge around on it almost every day when I am at the house. Even more so when I get a TV and stereo set up in there. My other grandmother had a chair with a slipcover, but that was just one big chenille thing with fringe on the edges which she had to continually tuck in and adjust. It had zero fitting though, and she didn't use anything to keep it tucked in. The grandmother that this couch came from (and the rocker in the room) had all her stuff slipcovered, and you would never know it. Even the rocker was padded and slipcovered to death, I had no idea it had the heart shaped carving on the back. The seat, back and arms were covered in padding tied down. That was the best rocker for playing pirate ship on! Anyway maybe grandma made those slipcovers herself, she was an inveterate seamstress. I vaguely remember big tacks with clear plastic knobs on them that I got in trouble for popping. Also maybe some pins when mom took the covers off. It's a 40 year old memory so I don't think it will get any more clear.

Anna, I’m thinking along the same lines as @M Riz - that is, sprinkle the room with colors from the art, especially the turquoise. My understanding is that this is either the best room for that art or, this is the room your husband wants it in. I see several tweeks I’d attempt to incorporate the art into the room. First is to raise the piece so top is level with the window opening into kitchen. If you can’t / won’t go that high then raise it at least to level of the 2 door frames to right of it. Between the art, 2 door frames & kitchen opening, you have 3 height levels in small space & it’s too busy looking. 2nd is color- add turquoise / teal place mats/ runner runner/ centerpiece to table & to the white chairs with throw or pillows. Adding the main color of art to room is easy because the art & room already have black & white in common. 3rd is items on fireplace - remove all the plants - too small & not lush enough & all the items are too cluttered. Reframe that large piece with script into a black frame -or paint the frame it’s in. Your room accents are black, all your art pieces are black framed - the large art, that really cute cat art in corner, & the vintage looking photo on mantel. This script piece is the outlier & needs more emphasis & a black frame will make it shine! Will you tell us what that script is to satisfy my curiosity? I can’t enlarge the pic enough ☺️. Is it a companion to the photo? 4th & last is - those lovely chairs - is there room to slide them away from table towards fireplace? Can table move toards kitchen window & leave enough room for path to doors? I’m wanting to put space between chairs & table. Looks like blinds laying across the chairs so you may have things moved out of usual positions for a project. This room looks like a very nice & interestimg dining area!

I think your non-boxy layout is lux and modern and refreshingly not squared off, and if you like it and it promotes conversation you should keep it. (If want to try something else, by all means do) I am constanntly amazed by suggestions that people throw out major pieces of furnture and a lot of decor and replace them with no-name squares of unspecified art, sized to be a big box or squared off into little boxes. Does one go to Home Depot to haul this stuff back or wait 20 weeks for it to be delivered? My own suggestion would be to make small changes. I'd be on the lookout for a blue platter to replace the white one at the center of your shelf. If you've got some sparkly crystal and metallic shiny things I'd experiment with them in the hutch. If you ever see a hutch you love buy it, or if you have a sudden flash that a richly painted hutch or wallpapered hutch would be over the moon in your space, have at it with that hutch. But otherwise have fun. Your house already is a very lovely space many would be so pleased to have and to be invited into. We can all pick over the pictures and imagine what we do or what would get us more clients in the photo book. But some of the most beautiful spaces are really lived in private spaces, not insta-whatever one-dimensional