By ops@our-hometown.com | on August 24, 2022

How to redecorate a great room in just three days! First, realize that great room is just a name. Our great room isn’t very big, and neither was our reason for redecorating. While we were away for over three weeks, our beautiful kitty took out her anxiety on my chair. We finally decided it wasn’t redeemable, and my other half gave it a ride to the dump.

We had been discussing what we should do about a coffee table as we have been using two stools that have tops that flip over and become trays. They gradually became disfigured when the “leather” covering rubbed off on the edges and corners and wherever it was scratched. While these stools were a classy dark red on the outside, the covering was rubbed off it was pink underneath.

Pink. Not a color we have anywhere else in the room.

We took a research trip locally to find out what a new chair would cost – we got a price range but didn’t find anything we liked for that spot. The range went from, “Hey, we can afford that,” to “Hey, we didn’t win the lottery!” Because the space is on the small side, we can’t use any of the chairs that seem to be popular today because they are too big with wide arms and high, plush backs.

Saturday we took a field trip to that town west of here with the all the home furnishings for sale and came home with two small ottomans to use as a coffee table and two matching chairs.

Normally I am allergic to anything matching, but these chairs needed each other, aesthetically speaking. They don’t need extra pillows as they make quite a statement on their own, so that’s a savings. They checked all the boxes: small, comfortable, distinctive and the right color. We didn’t really expect to buy two chairs but couldn’t resist.

Today we bought two accent pillows for the great room. One is for the couch and the other for a chair that belonged to my other half’s family. The pillow and the chair anchor four hand-painted and beaded pillowcases that we hung on the wall as art. No, they don’t have pillows in them. We also bought a tray to put on top of the ottomans so it can serve as a coffee table. Voila! These small changes have changed the character of the whole room. It does need repainting, but that will have to wait for another day. We didn’t change any of the artwork or decorative items or the window treatments, all of which can run up the cost.

I’ll look at the small things in the room tomorrow and may change some out. We’ve replaced the red accent color with blue. It would have to be things we already have since we have reached the max cost on this project. I try to make changes that will make a difference but not chew up our budget.

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