Please help me decide

My beautiful sofa.

Now that I've had my new sofa for a couple of weeks, I'm loving it more and more. I still find myself sitting right in the middle of it, which makes the center of the cushion dip down. In order to get rid of the dip, I folded up and old blanket that I keep trying to get rid of (but somehow keeps finding its way back in here), and put it under the center of the cushion.  That helped keep the center from dipping.

But that's not what I need your help with...  What I'm thinking about is adding some nailhead trim to it to make it more custom. This is kind of what I think it would look like, except with green fabric, of course, instead of dark brown.

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I would use this kind of nailhead trim in the picture below rather than nailing every single nail in a bronze color. I think this would give the look I want without having to do as much nailing and it would be easier to remove later on if I change my mind. I just think this trim would make it a lot easier, because doing individual nails would take forever on my sofa!

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Here's another picture with lighter fabric that shows what I'm thinking of a little better, only couch size, instead of chair size. I don't know if you can tell, but the nailheads go all along the bottom and up and around the arms. That's what I'm thinking about doing with my new sofa.

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In some respects, my sofa is already considered custom, because I didn't go with the standard fabric. We had it upholstered in Corey Herb because I wanted a green sofa instead of an off-white beige one. With two fur-babies, a light colored sofa would not work!

Can you imagine the nailtrim on it?

The nails would go all along the bottom, then up and around the arms and along the back. I think it would highlight the shape of the sofa a little more and add something a little more special to it.  But I'm just not sure...

So what do you think?  Should I add some nailhead trim to make it even more unique?

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New Sofa! It's here!!!

I'm so excited!  We got our new sofa today, and I love it! It looks just like I imagined it would look in our living room.


It's actually the same size as our old black leather couch, but this one has exposed legs that let you see the floor underneath it, and it doesn't have the large arms. It just makes our living room feel so much larger, and it's so much brighter. (I have to get new batteries for my camera, so the picture isn't as clear as I'd like, but I can't change the settings without it turning off!)

New sofa

Isn't it beautiful??? We paid extra for the fabric protection, and we were surprised to find out it was still wet from it when we got it home. There are still a few damp spots, but it's drying out.

Do you remember our old couch? Here's a picture of it.

Old couch.

See how dark and heavy everything looked?  See how large the arms were. Tia's going to miss those arms, because she'd always lay on one of them to look out the window. No room for that on the new sofa! Looking at this picture, I'm feeling a little sentimental. I fell asleep on that couch the first time Jim ever brought me home to his house. The old  couch was super comfortable for naps.

Did you notice that the artwork changed? The dark pictures worked really well with the old sofa, but they would have been too dark for the new one. So this past week I worked on changing them. When Mom and I went to the fabric store, I found this beautiful green fabric in the clearance rack, and I got the idea to use fabric in the old picture frames.

Artwork for the living room

I'm really please with how the picture above turned out with the fabric behind them. I had taken some pictures of how I put them together, but as I mentioned, my camera needs new batteries and I lost them. And, because they were kind of a pain to get lined up evenly in the frames, I'm not going to take them apart to retake the pictures!!! Sorry!

Here's a closer look at the art...

Artwork all finished.

These weren't easy to put together. The fabric kept fraying. The pictures wouldn't stick to the flocked black paper. Everything kept twisting in the frames. They're still not perfect, but I guess everything can't be perfect.  I think what I really like about them is no one else has artwork just like them, and they look so nice with the new sofa.

Wider view of the room.

Everything looks so nice together.  I'm so happy with it!  There are a few more things I want to do. One of those things is repainting the living room, but I know Jim will not go for that for quite some time! So for now I'm just going to enjoy our new sofa!!!

So what do you think of everything?  Looks better don't you think?