Seeing Green

 I didn't get a Thursday Treasure post together this week.  Maybe next week.

I am however putting together a living room tour before summer is over. I have new couch and chair which I haven't shared and I am loving the simplicity of the summer decor, so before it disappears for autumn ...let's have a look.

BUT first, you know I must write words...

We keep furniture you sit on forEVER, so when I choose I must choose carefully. In my 36 years of marriage I have only chosen poorly one time. I will admit that it left us before its time because I just couldn't handle it. It went downstairs for the teens and my son and his friends did everything they could to destroy it. It is has long been gone from down there as well. 

When Jeff said it was time, I started thinking long and hard about what I wanted. Lockdown gave me plenty of time to do that. I want go into all my thinking but after deciding that I wouldn't go with leather again I will show you what led me to my color choice. Leather is wonderful. I loved loved loved leather. I know some don't, but I did. I think it really warms up a room and a room.

I fell in love with a green couch that I had seen a long time ago on Instagram, so I knew I wanted green. Actually I would love a navy as that is my absolute favorite color, but that would fade out in a second in our very light filled room.

I loved the green in this couch I saw on Instagram, but I wasn't sure it was right for a coastal home. It is so RIGHT for this Missouri home out in the country with all that wood around it. I mean I love it. 

MY INSPIRATION PHOTO

Edgewater Farmhouse This is the most amazing house with loads of windows and wood which is all my favorites. She mostly shares her flower garden which is also amazing, but really is this not the prettiest couch?!!! I wish she had a blog for decor because this house is amazing. She does make pretty paper goods though.

However, I went with a much more muted tone that I think goes well with my home and location. The color is called Seagrass Green.

I wanted to make sure that it didn't cause a need to buy other new things like rugs and decor items. IT worked. I do think I would like some different pillows and maybe over time I will get out and find some pillow covers or better yet...make some. I will share the couch now and then intersperse living room photos in the rest of the text.

I have had the gingham ones out for summer, but I think I am going to put some darker ones below out for fall.

The only thing that did get switched up was some chair locations which you will see. The new chair was an attempt to choose a coordinating fabric. It is called Aberdeen Island. It is a tweedy like green/blue. I think it was not a perfect match, but it is something I can certainly live with especially across the room.

We put the two recliners together in the middle. The one of the left is 22 years old and while it works perfectly the cushion to it is gone. I so wish they would repair them, but I have found no one who will even attempt it. I will eventually get another exactly like it. The color is blueberry.

I was happy that everything came together with no changes which is what I was hoping. This is the room we do life in. It gets a lot of use, so the couch is covered most of the time:) The dogs honestly don't get on it much. They are trained to go in their dog boxes which are behind the recliners especially if company comes. Lemony was the couch potato but can no longer get up there without help, so I have convinced her the new dog bed that takes up half the floor is better. She has accepted it. Although Gus is using it today.

I think it will go with many colors even though this was my color inspiration card found on Pinterest.

I actually had this post in the hopper and am finally popping it out today.  I am not sure if it is the devil or what, but I have been apprehensive to share home photos lately. I know so many are struggling and here I am showing off new furniture. I am beyond grateful and please know I never ever want to be anything but humble. 

I like the blog because it is a personal journal which is good for me who likes to write stuff down.

My mother took pictures of every home we ever lived in from simple right on up. I always loved looking back and seeing how we did things or changed things up, so I like to do here on my blog. I often go back and look at previous years. Sometimes I think ---"What I was thinking?" Like the first year I blogged and had way way way too much out. Oh well... our tastes change. One only has to look at our 1990s clothes to know that.

Now for more real news...

In other far more important things. We lost my cousin Greg today. It makes the virus very real for me. I have lost two cousins this summer. One from surgery complications. Both were a few years behind me and I have certainly been a little blue lately. I think I needed to concentrate just for a moment on something lighter.

I think the reason I have held onto summer is that I didn't really embrace summer this year. All the news events, Mama being sick,  and the virus have sucked the fun out of it even though I have tried to do everything possible to minimize it. I am about to take a few days to fully embrace and enjoy summer as much as I can with the things of life and then I am going to turn the page on summer and embrace the autumn season. Who knows maybe it will be as pretty as the spring one we had here on the Gulf Coast!

Be back soon with some stitchy stuff.

Sandy