Pillow Talk - Nesting With Grace

Pillows can make the biggest difference to a room. If you are falling out of love with your sofa, rethink your pillows.

My mother-in-law text me soon after seeing something I posted on Instagram saying she wanted to lighten up her family room. She has a lot of reds, browns and darker colors. I told her I would put a design board together for her with links on where to get them. But under no circumstances do not rush to the nearest Home Goods store and grab whatever you see.

Have a plan and ideas of a look you want to achieve,
this is what I sent her. She has a 10’x10′ brown sectional. We did three of the Mongolian fur 23″x23″ pillows in each corner then filled in with the others.

I have 4 of my Top Tips that I gave her-

#1- Scale your pillows to what you are putting them on. One size does not fit all. On a sectional or a larger scale sofa don’t use anything

smaller than a 20″ pillow.

#2- Re-use your fills. I switch out my pillows for the season and move them around often but when I can I just buy the casing and stuff the fills I have inside.

#3- Go for Down. If you don’t already have down fills then make sure to get down pillows. You can find them so inexpensive and they make an inexpensive cover look so much nicer. Down will last longer and not break down. Ikea has great priced down inserts, they are a little flat, so if they say they fit a 22″ pillow I would use that in your 20″ pillow. You can find them HERE

#4- Have your standard Go-To pillows. Make sure to have some large “base” pillows that are neutral and balance out the other more eclectic or patterned pillows that you will want to change more often. For instance I think these solid white ones from IKEA would really brighten up a tan sofa and give the look of a white sofa that we all love but would become a crazy person if we had it.

Anthropolgie has some of my favorite pillows lately.
As you can see I like fur pillows,
I like the different texture it adds.
You can find some from Pottery Barn HERE or West Elm HERE.

(You can see more pictures of my new kitchen HERE and see where I found more places to put pillows!)

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Stacey says

May 21, 2015 at 12:18 am

Hi Brooke. I just found your blog yesterday and went back through lots of entries. I love your style and you have such great ideas for combining things creatively. Would you please, please consider making your pictures bigger? I have been clicking on the pics to see them bigger but then you can't read the words. It would be great to be able to see it all at the same time. 🙂
- Brooke Christen says
  
  May 21, 2015 at 12:25 am
  
  Hi! Thank you so much!! I wish I knew how!! I need to change my layout I think, I having been messing with it. Thanks again.
Brooke Christen says

May 21, 2015 at 12:59 am

Well it took someone else to say something for me to fix it! Fixed, the pictures are much bigger. Thank you again.

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