A little tip...

I am sure that I am not showing you anything new here, but just in case there is that one person reading this post  who has just awakened from a 5 year coma, here goes.

I have a console which I purchased years ago, and definitely  a "what was I thinking" period in my design style!  Lord, I hope I am done with those times [highly doubtful].  So anyway, my point is, yes I could have painted it, but it was just too "leggy" for the look  I wanted to accomplish now.

With that in mind, here is an inexpensive alternative.

Yep...here is the before.  I know it would look good painted and maybe someday, when I change the decor in my LR [for the gazillionth time] I might do it!

Here is the cover I made.  It is actually out of a linen burlap, which was about 15.00@yd.  Now the thing is,  cording would not have looked good on this [my opinion], so I did this....

I think it gives it a more casual look and you don't have to worry about the cording fitting perfectly.  Here is another view

Of course I change it up quite often.  Here is a picture with a piece of french linen over it.

And, if you noticed the pillows in the before picture, I change those  quite often also :)

I can never make up my freaking mind!  I never realized what a "wishy washy" [real technical word] person I was until I went into the design arena.

Here is a picture of what we did for a client with the same problem

  Putting a piece of antiqued mirror on top of it and adding the buttons.
And here is one I found in my files.  I apologize, but I am not sure where I grabbed this, so I don't know the source.

 I do love the trim element in this picture.

AND....remember the shutters I bought at Scott's last weekend??????  Well here is a picture of them in my house.  I can not decide where to put them [are you surprised with that statement????]  So they are resting here on either side of the opening into the den.

As you can see in the next picture I have these transoms, and I would love to take them out and put the shutters in their place.  BUT....then I am committed to this color......waaayyyyy to scary for me!

Would you do that??????  Opinions?

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