Pillows and Feathers

I suppose you could say ours is a fairly neutral interior except for the Persian carpets and some of the wall art. The carpets are one thing I will not change out because of where my husband is from. It’s just a part of our overall decorating theme. So the rest of the furniture and accessories have to be fairly quiet to tone down the more colorful rugs. The last couple of weeks we have been rearranging pillows. I hate the pillows that are made to match the Ethan Allen sofa. What makes it worse is when the feathers keep sticking you and they end up all over the place. So we decided to unzip those covers and get rid of all the loose irritating feathers, cover the inside pillow with another layer of pillow covers we no longer like, and put the original cover back on top of that. You would have thought we killed two chickens or geese with the bag we filled of feathers. In the mean time there are a couple of very old Restoration Hardware pillows that I love, but the outside covers are beginning to show their wear. So we switched a couple of those out and they are really neutral and to my husband’s liking. It seems every time we “go bold” with prints vs. neutrals we are sorry we did. We still have the original Ethan Allen pillow we picked out so long ago when we lived in the Midwest. It was to become the beginning of a long and lasting relationship with our favorite designer who ended up helping us redo the whole house. I learned a few things from Glenn, but could never live up to his standards. When he put prints together, they looked so much better than ours.