I think if I had to name a favorite piece of furniture of ours, it might be my antique floral chaise lounge (followed up quickly with our coffee table). The older I get, the more I just love mixing different eras of my life in a home together, regardless of the current home style architecture/style. In fact, I can’t even think of a type of home that I couldn’t make this chaise “work”. A few of you wondered if it looks good next to the quilted mushroom stools because they are just such different styles, almost like coming from different worlds (old world European meets American country). I think I would wonder the same thing, but I didn’t even hesitate. I guess it tracks because I used to say that my style was a mashup of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette + Footloose (Kevin Bacon’s version) + The Royal Tenenbaums. While I don’t know if it was ever true, accurate, or maybe just a fun way to talk about style (I fear I’m not that eccentric), I do still really love fringey, velvet, florally things while also loving unpretentious rustic, primitive, and casual plaid elements. I think they do in fact work together because of the shared color palette and the fact that they are both cleaner lined with very decorative fabric? But let’s revisit this piece.

I bought it from Jayson Home probably 8-10 years ago. It was in pretty good condition for an antique, but I was mostly drawn to the lines of the arms and back – more of a delicate curve like the Scandinavian greats (not big and bulbous or overly decorative). I kept it in its original fabric for a few years, but it didn’t hold up to our kids and cats at the time, and it started splitting.

So I had it reupholstered (by BuildLane) in my favorite floral ever, this gorgeous blue and green velvet from House of Hackney (the color combination with the browns is just perfect). I chose not to fringe the bottom because I couldn’t find any that I loved enough (I would have done it had I found the perfect blue/green tone in the right length). I don’t think it misses it (and I can always add it?). It’s just so pretty.

This was how we styled the house to sell it (I think), and it’s fine in here, but perhaps got lost from this angle.

Moving It Then To The Farmhouse…

Ok, so at first the chaise lounge didn’t make it in (not sure why). We were still figuring out how to flow through the house. I put this papa bear chair and ottoman here. It looks really cold now (this corner is so hard to shoot – the light is just so dead).

I changed it out for this Soho home chair, which I love (that color is perfection). It looked better for sure, and I liked seeing it when I walked down the stairs.

Here we shot this vignette again for a Target collab with some ‘fall’ elements, and it started getting warmer and warmer, and more filled out.

But Back To The Chaise Lounge…

But recently I just missed it. Surely I could make it work here and use the blue Soho Home chair somewhere else.

So I brought it back, and I LOVE it. I love looking at it every time I come down the stairs or walk towards the sunroom. And the rug underneath was crucial. I chose a round one (8′) because it’s kind of a pass-through space, and an organic or round shape would help with the flow versus a rectangle. Now, for those of you who don’t like it when we photoshop, please ignore the command strips that I leave up year-round for our garland and the black cafe curtain rod that I haven’t removed for whatever reason.

So you can see it in the corner, and I love how it looks with the rest of the furniture.

Here she is all decked out for the holidays, and I love this sweet little vignette. And yes, I agree that the garland is a great balance and makes me want to put up roman shades, but they would just be cream/taupe in order to match the huge curtains (which are custom). And if you are wondering why I didn’t do shades in the first place, it’s because we did cafe curtains in the same cream/taupe fabric instead (thus the rod), but once they were installed, they looked just so boring and corporate (my fault), which is why I put the Boro fabric panels there. The OG fabric was just too thick to be cafe curtains, and they did a really thick top and bottom hem, which made them really stiff (I think cafe curtains are inherently best as thinner fabric without being lined or with a really thin lining if you must). Anyway, the point is I can objectively say that having a shade over here would look good, but no real motivation to make that decision. And I love a table full of family photo frames, so I think after Christmas I’ll add even more here (these are our Santa photos). It’s giving “cozy library” in a really lovely way. Oh, and you might think that a more contrasty rug could look better, but when you look at the room holistically, it’s nice that this is quiet and flows with the color of the floor. This is a rug from Arvin Olano’s former collection with RugsUSA, which I have to say is really nice and high quality for the price. I ordered it in both 6′ and 8′, unsure which size would be better (which I don’t recommend, I didn’t realize that it’s $50 per return). We ended up keeping the 8′, and it’s pretty great. Next time we shoot this room, I’m going to shoot this vignette towards the sunroom so you understand where it lies in this massive, open room. It’s not ideally designed, but I love looking at it too much, so I’m going to continue to make it work. 🙂

Opening Image Credits: Photo by Sara Ligorria-Tramp | From: Living Room Update – AGAIN – Our New Sofa, My Dream Floral Chaise And The Pop Of Red I Always Wanted In My Life