Den Bookcase

To match the new pillows, I changed some of the accessories on the small bookcase in my den.  I finally found a perfect home for some Japanese fishing floats I received for Christmas last year.  And I was able to add a vintage globe (ca 1947) and some glass insulators.  The glass insulators are all from Whitall Tatum, where my grandfather worked.

Den Pillows

I decided the pillows with black trim did nothing to complement the coral and white pillows and that they would look better with solid pillows in a deeper coral.  No problem to make them, right?  Wrong.  Coral is a very difficult color to match!  I looked at every fabric and sample at Calico Corners and Boca Bargoons and I found one special order that was close...name of the color was Persimmon.

Then I pulled out an old swatch I had clipped at Boca Bargoons a few years ago and I like the way it looked.  Fortunately they still had it as well as a deeper shade of the same aqua.  I whipped out that sewing machine and got to work.

I love the way this looks (and I discovered the pillows look better with narrower flanges) but many of the black accessories in the room looked too heavy.  That set off a re-accessorizing frenzy.  Fortunately, I got pretty lucky at Marshall's.  It also inspired me to perform an overdue tchotchke purge/reorganization!