Pillow Makeover!

One of my goals for this summer is to have a very colorful deck area. We have a brown deck and grey furniture out there and I just felt like it needed a big punch of color. I’ve seen some GORGEOUS deck, porch and patio pictures online lately and even though mine won’t turn out to be magazine-worthy I knew I could make some small changes.

One thing I decided was to re-cover some pillows and use them outside. I didn’t use outdoor fabric so I will have to bring them in each night – but I often sit on my swing outside to read a book or have my quiet time and figured some cute pillows would provide color AND comfort!

Here is my stack of before pillows…

I started out with this ‘beauty’ – actually I have two of them. I’ve had these pillows since I was 14 years old – FOURTEEN people!! The dusty rose color has GOT TO GO!

And I turned them into these cuties! The only sewing needed was sewing the fabric into a big tube – then I simply tied the ends closed {candy wrapper style} with some matching ribbon …

Then I tackled these … as you can see our puppy thought they were her personal chew toy. And yes I covered them once before with the floral fabric but it doesn’t match in my house anymore.

These were the other ones I covered – I also have two of these.

And voila! Here they are …

Not perfect by any means – but I now have 6 {new} bright, cheerful pillows to use on the deck this summer. I love how they turned out! I am loving the blue/green color combo lately!

I have a few more small projects I’ve been working on for the deck area – I’ll share them soon!