Hi Cindy! Sweet room. I love the animal print chair. Really perfect. I would settle on sofa and lounge chair first. I think a smaller scale lounger chair might work better. Then a larger rug that compliments new pieces. To save on budget, you could paint floor lamp and coffee table colors to play with colors you want to punch up in room. Make it more fun. Great space. You have such a beautiful home!

Hi Flo! Great to hear from you! I’m on my way to look at furniture now. I’ll see what I like as far as a smaller chair. So like a small club chair? I have in my mind a blue and white stripe if I recover the chair or get a new one. Do you think that would work knowing what I have going on with the rest of the house? And can I get away with it with the animal print chair? I love my animal print chair. :)

If you are keeping green walls (and they are pretty) I would try for mixed stripe with blue and some green if you want a stripe.

I am definitely keeping the green walls. I would be very into the idea of painting the metal on the coffee and end tables and also the baker’s rack. (Pictured below) Could paint the lamps too if you think I should. I had not seen your reply before I went to look at furniture. I found a smaller chair I like. From that manufacturer, I am very sure I saw no mixed green and white striped fabrics. I did find fabrics I like for a chair. The blue and white stripe is my favorite and I think it is darker in the photo. I thought maybe I could have pillows made from a different furniture company that incorporate blue and the green? If worst comes to worst, I can recover the animal print chair. Also pictured are the whites I like for the sofa I found. I will snap some pics in daylight tomorrow. Thoughts? Thanks! :)

Edited to add: The fabrics look so off. The one on the right in both photos is blue but almost looks gray. Definitely not gray!

You have some really pretty pieces. I love, love the floral print on the peripheral chairs and the side table. I feel like a simpler/more neutral area rug would really make those pieces shine even if you kept the existing couch.

Thanks Nicole. The furniture is 20 years old although I have had the sofa recovered. And the rug is not 20 years old. I feel like it may be time for a change. I do think whatever I do the rug is too ” aggressive”.

Fabrics during the daytime: @flo mangan

I’m now thinking of doing the sofa and chair in the same fabric and have no clue what direction to go. White fabric for the sofa even though it’s performance scares me. Think the blue and white fabric is too dark and cat hair will really show.

I love White performance fabric for your sofa but the chair would be nice in that mid tone blue. Then you can add pillows that work with both. Love this pillow. And of course you must have some blue hydrangeas!

Today I (bad me) rubbed a little canned cat food on two of the white performance fabrics. One I can see where it was. The other fared better but still wasn't as easy as I would have liked to remove. When you say the mid toned blue are you speaking of the fabric on the right in the last pic I posted? That’s a pretty pillow as is the hydrangea arrangement. i had fabulous hydrangeas this sunmer! And then there is the conundrum of what to do with the green animal print chair. Probaby have to recover it. Sigh… i love this look below. But not paying Serena & Lily prices! What if I did the sofa in the blue patterned fabric and the chair in white? I know, I know, you’re going to say the sofa should be neutral. Ahhhh this is hard!

Oh the cat food test is because Theodore vomited on this sofa about a month ago. Got it out of the sofa cushion but had to pitch a big throw pillow.

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Awe. No wet cat food. Yeah. Well here is concept I have been working on for you.

#1 fabric on left.

happyleg, so you like the lfabric with the darker denim stripe?

Are you thinking of that chair to replace the big chair in the corner Flo? I do like it but is it comfortable? And i does it go with the small rattan/wicker chair I have? Where did you find it so I can look? I really like the striped pillow in particular that you found. Could’t find it on their Etsy site though. I have a vaulted ceiling in my sunroom with a white ceiling fan so while that fixture is very cool there is nowhere for it to live. This is the pic of the chair we were thinking of. It’s much less wide and deep than the chair we have now. The sofa would also have an English arm. And i do have hydrangeas!

What color are you thinking for hubby to paint metal of tables and baker’s rack? He and i have been watching some videos of spraying metal Sorry I know I always have so many questions!

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Yes I do. It makes it stand out & looks great with the wicker chair/pendent.

If u don't I like the middle one really well; two toned.

happyleg, thanks for your input!

Flo, do you have any thoughts on what color to paint the metal on the tables and the baker’s rack? Thinking this is a project we could tackle now while Ohio weather is still nice. Thanks! @flo mangan