White Linen Slipcover Dreaming

Here's what I'm dreaming of.... courtesy of Country Living....But here's what I'm doing....

I'm sanding....still! Hope to began painting today, after I clean up all the sheet rock dust. There are lots of indents in this bath...needed almost a whole tub of sheet rock Spackle.

While I'm sanding and painting with some achy arms and neck ...

I'm dreaming of White Linen Slipcovers for a few chairs.

Cote de Texas, a beautiful blog and one of my favs, has some great ideas. Here are her breakfast chairs, slipped in white linen.

This link, oops, you'll have to search "white linen slipcovers". Mmmm, monogrammed

covers. I 'm in love. Some shell pearl buttons, and tiny pleats.
How dreamy is that?

These are the 3 chairs that are waiting for me. If I ever finish painting.

They are so crying out to me!

The newly painted dining room

A while back I decided to lighten all my rooms just to cheer me up! Actually, each room needs a lot of sanding due to a bad floating job of the newly installed sheet rock after Katrina. So what better time to change wall colors. This new shade is Sherwin Williams Celery SW 6421. The new color that I've chosen to replace the Dromedary Camel (a lovely dark, rich gold color) is SW 6113 Interactive Cream. It is still in the gold family but about 4 values lighter.

Banished are the gold dupioni silk drapes....I'm studying up on ever so slight touches of British Colonial influences that I can add. One of my ideas to infuse the tropical British Colonial into the living room and dinning room is sewing white linen slipcovers for a few chairs. More on that later.

In picture below, you can see the older, darker shade of green in the entry hall that I've loved for years.

Below are a few of the samples I've collected so far for either new "mistreatments" as Nester would say, seat cushions or dining chair slip covers. I've got a bolt of white linen material, trying to decide where to use it.

Well, back to sanding and painting. I plan to do one room at a time. Should take me a year!!!