I Received The Foyer Bench Fabric (And I Don’t Like It)

Anyway, I do have enough to make a throw out if it, which is a good thing because I don’t actually like it on the bench in the bedroom foyer.

I don’t really know what it is about it that I don’t like. Too dark? Too busy? Too green? I can’t put my finger on it. And I certainly don’t like it with the tea towels that I bought to make one of the pillows. So I thought I could just keep the two pillows I already have, but I don’t like those with it, either. It just seems a little too blah.

Of course, I will be hanging this picture on that wall above the bench. But even at that, it still seems too blah for me.

So I’ll washing that velvet fabric and turning it into a throw that I’ll either keep by the recliner in the bedroom or in the living room. I’m always wanting a comfy throw in the winter. Or I might make some throw pillows out of it for the bedroom, although I think the pattern might be a bit too bold for the headboard fabric. I’ll have to wait and see on that.

In the meantime, I went rummaging through my fabric stash to see if I could find anything that would work. I didn’t really have anything on hand that would work for the bench, but I did find this scrap of fabric and decided to try it out just to see if I liked the overall pattern and look. The color itself is all wrong. It’s too blue to go in a teal foyer. but I do love the pattern and how the more geometric pattern looks with the colorful tea towel (i.e., future pillow cover).

And I really like how it all looks with the picture that I plan to hang on that wall above the bench.

It also comes in this green color, which might be a fun contrast to the teal grasscloth wallpaper that I’ll be putting on the upper walls in the foyer and bedroom.

If I stick with the teal and white, I think this one might be my favorite. It’s a fun pattern, and it has just enough white to keep it light and interesting without the white being too stark. At least, that’s how it looks in the picture. We’ll see what it looks like when I get the sample.

It also comes in this pretty green.

I’ve ordered samples for all of those, and now I wait. I can’t even express to you how much I hate purchasing fabrics online — making choices, waiting for samples, choosing from samples, making a purchase, waiting for the fabric to come. Oh, how I miss the days when we had actual fabric stores in town where I could go, make my purchase, and come home with the immediate gratification of that fabric in hand and ready to start on a project. I hate it so much that I very often skip ordering samples and just take my chance with ordering fabric, but as in this situation, that doesn’t always work out well for me in the end.

But I really want this area to look nice. I’ll have so few options for adding color, pattern, and fabric to the foyer (all the fabric will be in this one corner), so I don’t want to just settle on something that’s kind of meh. I want to make the most of this one opportunity to bring fabric into the foyer and make it as cute, colorful, and vibrant as possible.