All these peachy pink walls are giving me the blues, but not in a weepy wimpy way. More in a, I must have cobalt blue velvet stat, kind of way.
Case in point:
This fabulous vintage tufted sofa with brand new blue velvet upholstery just popped up at a local dealer’s shop. Sadly, I know this particular dealer will be charging 1st Dibs prices. Double sadly, that upholstery in my house would go from pristine to a jelly smeared nightmare in 3.2 seconds.
But look how good FloLo makes peacocky blue look with a juicy pink palette. Delish.
Almost as good as my girl Naomi Stein’s fabulous Klein blue and pantone pink office nook. Genius, no?
Go check out the rest of her amazing apartment reveal over at Design Sponge.
And then please report back to let me know where I can get an amazing kid friendly blue sofa.
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Hi Erin! funny, i knew exactly what store you were talking about! i just bought a new sofa (one of the very few things in my house that is not vintage) & i love it. i went to build-a-sofa. they have a ton of fabric choices! hope you are settling into your new home!
I just gave in and bought the camel leather sectional I may have mentioned to you…hasn’t arrived yet. I was planning on hitting my little consignment shop later, so I will keep my peepers open for blue goodness!
Erin! I get my own tag? That is super exciting. Thanks for the shout out. You’ve seen this crazy wall progress over the past 10 months. Pretty happy where it ended up.
Would I sound like a broken record if I said slipcover? There are some great velvety cottons out there….
In my dream house/life I have a velvet sofa in the winter, and a linen in the summer. One day it will happen.
Do you really want to be sitting on a velvet sofa in the Austin heat?
just sayin.
Soul sister! I’ve been dreaming of a blue sofa too. (In my head that’s sung to the tune of “White Christmas.”) I’m down with slipcovers, though I will warn you that I recently removed mine to have them cleaned and OMFG the sofa underneath is scary. I’m sitting on it right now and it’s like a few steps away from looking like a crime scene. Maybe the lesson here is to clean one’s sofa occasionally?
naomi’s place is killing it all over.
get some blue velvet woman! go to the pet store and buy some folex for stains and a soft baby hair brush. keep your velvet good as new.
i have velvet upholstery, a child and 4 cats. folex is awesome. oh and a lint roller. i actually enjoy the maintenance of my expensive upholstery.
Do it! Naomi’s is rocking my world!
loving that yves klein/cobalt blue! smashing! especially with the hot pink!
i got my 1970′s sofas reupholstered in peacock blue velvet a couple of years ago. love it! then i had a baby. now i’m just counting down until i can justify getting a dry-cleaner in to make it pretty again. 6-7 years? in the meantime, i’m about to google folex!!
[...] The Blues: as a point of comparison. Klein in your Bathroom! This also looks easy to clean, deifnite perk. Image via House to Home. From Sight Unseen, HERE. A quaint and rustic room featuring the serigraph, Homage to Tennessee Williams by Yves Klein. Via Art.com, HERE. From the home of the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi company. A table filled with IKB pixie dust, created by the artist. Found via Architectural Digest, HERE. Baboo Apartment by Bernardes & Jacobsen, São Paulo, Brazil – art by Alexander Calder, Keith Herring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Yves Klein blue table…found HERE. GO BOLD OR GO HOME. Found via Yolksy, HERE. Screenshot from Sweet Paul Magazine Spring 2012 Issue – found HERE. Those red lacquered bamboo legs! The glossy pink table! The medieval wall! The Foo Dog Lamps! I literally cannot stop using exclamation points. Found via Design Crisis, HERE. [...]