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The problem with free stuff is that it's rarely exactly right for your needs. When we moved into our new apartment a few weeks ago, we inherited a few basic items of furnishing. This might seem like a good thing, when the only possessions you currently have are 20 cardboard boxes full of clothing, books and kitchenware, a couple of computers, and nothing in the way of actual furniture. And truthfully, we were probably lucky. The stuff that happened to come along with this apartment wasn't too bad: the dining table was real wood, the coffee table a cool antique map chest. And the sofa was a real, honest-to-goodness sofa -- only a few years old, solidly constructed, perfect for lounging around on. The only problem? The stodgy, faded mauve, Laura Ashley upholstery, complete with plaid pink and yellow throw pillows, looked just a tad too middle-aged, middle-class, English country quaint. It would have looked fine in, say, your friend's mom's house. But the boy and I took one look at it and knew: something had to be done.
On a whim one day, I yanked off all the pillows and took a good hard look at what I was working with. And what I found was that minus all that plaid, my sofa was already a heap more tolerable. After grabbing two of my beloved furry white pillows from the bedroom, and tossing those on the stripped-down sofa, the country-cuteness was gone, despite the fact that the white didn't quite work. The next day, I moseyed back on down to the fabric store in search of new covers for all my pillows. Covering the whole sofa might not be possible, but redoing pillows? Now there was something I could easily tackle.
Bored with your own sofa? Give your living room a quickie makeover with some fleece pillow covers of your own.
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