I have always had fabric sofas then about 6 years ago I bought a slipcovered sofa from Arhaus. I thought it was a good investment because I could have new covers made and when we decided to have kids I figured I could wash the covers. Well.....a few years later we had twins, then had our third before the twins turned 2 and by that time I was fed up with the maintenance of the fabric. So, one day I was so frustrated at the constant cleaning, I went to the furniture store and bought a leather sofa and loveseat. They look fabulous and for the first year I loved how easy it was to clean them and the worry free attitude I could have with 3 toddlers. Now I have had them for about 2.5 years and I am counting the days until I can have a cozy, fabric sofa again. I still have the Arhaus sofa, but it is too large to move into our current space, so it sits in the kids playroom in the basement (figures, right?). My husband has relented that I could buy a new fabric sofa, but everytime I look at them, all I can think about is the spilled milk, dropped food that got snuck into the family room, runny noses that got wiped on the seat cushions.....so, I leave the store longing for a fabric sofa but appreciating the leather and the fact it always looks good, no matter what. As a matter of fact, my SIL thought the leather was such a good idea after seeing mine and also having 3 small children, she bought the exact same set. We feel the same way about leather and fabric. Function won out over personal preference. BTW, I have leather on carpet and plan to add a nice area rug to help add some color the room.

Everyone thanks for the compliments on the room. For the most part, I really like the way it came out, except for that one area. I feel the rocker is too small for the space and figured if I was going to get a new chair, that I should get a pair, so there wouldn't be so many different things going on in there. Cindy, I am planning on replacing the recliner and the rocker. I still really like the brown chair. It is from the Sherrill Motioncraft line and I purchased it in Williamsburg VA. It is a recliner, therefore adding slipcovers wouldn't work. My DS was in his room photoshopping the chairs into the photo as I was in the office posting this on the forum. It wasn't until he emailed them to me in the middle of the post that I realized, "wow, those don't look very good". Darn if only I would have had photoshop a year ago I could have saved myself a lot of hassle. Les, Style wise I really like your idea, as a larger chair would fill the corner to the left of the fireplace very well. Unfortunately, I don't think hubby would give up his recliner to sit in the green chair. I'll move them there before he comes home just to get an idea of scale and see if he will go for it. I will put his brown recliner in the corner you are indicating. I will post the photo later today. If it works I might not need to purchase anything. So, am I understanding that most of you like the brown recliner and think only the rocker needs to be replaced? I will put myself out of a limb here and ask what other changes you would make to the room. Eventually I would like to get a new art piece for over the fireplace and move that print to the piano. And yes I agree the piano looks lonely.

Roulie, you're heading in the right direction on the chairs. Those two new models are much more modern in feeling than the first chair you showed us. And yes, the rolled arms on that one ar part of the problem, but also that serpntine front profile of the arms. And, as I said, that midriff bulge below the belt. Now, in another room, with other furniture, that chair would probably be fine. In fact, I have a chair not unlike it, and it's really comfortable. At my house, it works, because everything I own is out of style--or, rather, outside of style--but at your place, it just doesn't work visually with the sofa. It's apples & oranges. Unfortunately, the new chair options add bananas & kumquats into the mix. I don't care for the odd back on the first one, but I like the tapered arms of the second. Still, they don't relate very well to the sofa, either. So here's what I'd do: I'd either find the matching chair that goes with your sofa, or I'd switch the sofa out for the Hennessy sofa & use it with a pair of Hennessy chairs. Yes, upholstered all in the same fabric, the pieces would look unimaginative, but using different fabric on the chairs will solve that little problem. Too, even in different fabrics, the matching lines of the pieces will allow the grouping, as a unified whole, to act as the strong base for the other things you'll put in the room over time. Maybe it's a bigger, bolder art piece over the mantel, maybe it's a big ship model, maybe it's some funky modern lamps--it could be a lot of things. What's important is that those accents function as accents, and the way they do that is by being more assertive than your main pieces--even though those pieces are bigger. And with the sofa quarreling with the chairs over who has a coolor design, no one will notice those accent pieces. So, if this were my place, I'd go for unity in line & shape, but variation in color. As far as recommendations for stores, I don't like to make those, because even within a single chain, different stores carry different stuff, and what I see in a store here in Chicago may never show up where somebody else lives, Too, some stores go through the retail equivalent of a mid-life crisis, tossing their old look overboard & going whole hog for a totally different style. I can think of one chain that's always had decent, semi-stylish pieces & non-crazy prices. Their furniture was nothing to write home about, but it was all low-key in design & generic enough that you could pretty well furnish you place with their stuff, accent it with your own wall colors, rugs & artwork, and stiill create a look that if not necesarily you, was, at least, not anybody else. Now they've taken off in a whole new direction, and although the stuff in their catalogs--I haven't yet been to the stores to see it in person--is interesting, it's so aggressively different in form, detail, finish, scale & color from what wev'e seen from them before, that even a single large piece--handsome thought it might be--will instantly dominate the room, and because of the distinctive-but-limited finish options, a whole room full of the stuff will look like a catalog spread. There was a double-page ad of their new stuff in a magazine the other day & although the lighting was attractive & the room's "symmetry" nice--although merely a digital trick, since the big china-filled bookcases at either side of the same ad were clearly the same piece, cut-&-pasted to make the illusion of a pair--the overall effect was bombastic, overdone & totally devoid of any shred of individual personality. And that's not all. With its dull finishes & absence of color, the stuff is more than a bit creepy. If all reminded me of the stuff in Miss Havisham's attic. Now there's a role model for ya. Anyway, because of all that, the only store recommendations I've ever made online were for Benjamin Moore, because they can match any paint sample I mix up, and the Salvation Army store around the corner, where great stuff goes for a song because nobody but me likes it.

BM Hale Navy or SW Tricorn Black would be a great color for the TV stand..I would go to Home Depot or Lowe’s and pick up some round or square chunky furniture feet/legs and add them to the tv console.....maybe add a gold handle you can pick up from a antique store...something a bit funky.....if doing a slipcover I would do a neutral and add loads of kilm or mud cloth pillows....