Welcome to another monthly Pinterest Challenge, my friends! As always, a big thank-you to Cindy of County Road 407 for bringing us all together. This month we have a bunch of bright and cheery sofa table inspirations for you featuring springtime vignettes! After the crazy-cold 100-year-snowstorm we just had here in Texas (and across much of the USA), I am ready for spring!!! How about you??
Let’s hop on over and see what everyone is creating…
A big welcome to everyone who is just coming over from Rachel of The Ponds Farmhouse; I am happy to have you here!! I LOVED all three of Rachel’s ideas for her console table… Really pretty ideas! Well, if you like what you see on my blog, please consider following along. 🙂 To all of my friends old and new, I am glad you are here, safe and well. and able to visit!
Here is our inspiration photograph
Our inspiration piece comes to us from Amanda Marie from Sincerely, Marie Home. She is a young designer whose contemporary farmhouse style is warm and inviting! I like her mix of neutrals, small green checks, brick fireplace and warm painted woods with traditional English style furniture ~ beautiful!
What strikes me about the inspiration’s sofa table
On the sofa table itself are three tidy stacks of coffee table books
A natural woven basket full of white flowers and greenery ~ this arrangement is set inside a low white bowl with two sweet brass quail adding to the feeling of nature brought indoors.
a wicker candle holder on its own white plate, a small glass mister and a small statuette
What inspires me in the rest of the room
the bleached dropcloth slipcover on the sofa
the use of greens, creams and whites in the room with a garden or botanical theme to the room
a checked wing chair across from the sofa and next to the fireplace
a beautiful antique white fireplace surround with matching hurricane lamps flanking the built-in mirror on the mantel
more books and greenery up on the mantel echoing the sofa table vignette
two botanical prints up on the wall behind the wing chair
In my sofa table rendition
I brought in a couple of stacks of interior design books in whites to freshen up my sofa table’s look and to bring in more white to my room. Our living room is naturally pretty dark with these tan walls so I like to add a lot of white to my decor.
I sewed my sofa and settee’s bleached dropcloth slipcovers a number of years ago and they add in that bleached linen look from the original.
Where the inspiration piece had a grouping of four items on the sofa table’s right side ~ two book stacks offset with a small statue and the wicker candleholder in opposing corners, I went with a grouping of three.
My maiden statue, one stack of books, and a tall bubble glass candleholder on a vintage creamware saucer create my look.
A large centerpiece of faux greenery and flowers set inside an old wicker basket, plus a second stack of books and another glass candleholder make up the left side of the sofa table arrangement.
The painted tray and the fluted creamware saucer serve as bases for both the floral arrangement and the soy candle.
A matter of scale
I didn’t have a small statue or I would have used it here. I know the scale of the statue competes with the size of the floral arrangement, but when looked at from different directions ~ the statue is sometimes the centerpiece, and from the opposite viewing direction, the florals in their woven basket stands out.
Later on I added a small wood cut underneath the floral basket giving that arrangement a little more height. I think the flowers and the statue make a good combination together!
Adding a small pewter sugar bowl topped with a moss ball takes the place of the vintage plant mister.
The florals, moss ball and later a small sheep bring nature inside to my sofa table vignette. The greenery is repeated up on our mantel with more moss balls and some pear tree branches I am forcing.
Two hurricane candlesticks mimic those in the inspiration piece and the brass candleholder pieces copy the brass elements from the original.
My mantel almost always has a framed mirror above it and the mantel is decorated for spring. I’ll share more of that another day. 🙂
Completing the scene
The wing chair with its deep green and blue plaid placed next to the fireplace and draped with a vintage white linen runner over the back, combined with this vintage print in its green chalk-painted frame copies the inspiration’s look.
Thank you for visiting today and I hope you will stop by all of my friends who are on today’s tour. Next up is Niky from The House on Silverado and I know you will like her sofa table styling! Check out that cute end table’s French style… (I think it needs to come over here, lol!) Niky always creates such pretty vignettes… Swoonworthy!!!
Enjoy the tour, friends,
Barb 🙂