Etsy Pillows

I have a soft spot in my heart for Etsy pillows. They are so great when we don't have the time nor the budget for custom. Here are some of my current faves!

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I LOVE the huge size of this toile.. makes it much more modern.


I adore CC Deux Vie. When I saw they are located in Charlotte, I started using her for custom jobs!




Sexy...


I love this print a lot.

Accessible Design

Sure, I love To The Trade fabrics from Schumacher and Kravet as much as the next decorator, but I want to share with you some accessible options that I am using in a couple projects. These textiles come from really talented women and I always feel good supporting fellow small business owners.

I recently ordered two yards of beautiful hand-printed linen from Etsy seller Pat of Giardino. She was so great to work with and I am very pleased with the fabric I received for a client.

If you remember back to this post, I had originally planned on using this David Hicks by Lee Jofa fabric:



It ended up being too harsh for the space and I decided to go with this fabric that Pat hand prints. I had her create two yards for me and I will have some pillows made for my client.



I'm sure all of you have seen Caitlin's new fabric line... it's fantastic! She recently sent me some samples and I was sooo excited that one of them works PERFECTLY with the Japenese screen/emerald sofa project I'm working on.



The colors are perfect and the floral used in the fabric looks like a modern take on the floral in the screen.



I especially love that Caitlin offers her fabrics in pillow options. My client also loved the fabric, so we'll definitely be ordered two of these for the emerald sofa:



And last but not least, we recently had a trunk show at Isabella for Bella Studios, a very talented local seamstress. Jennifer doesn't just sew pillows, she handcrafts them. They are soooo beautiful and considering the amount of detail she puts into them, are very reasonably priced too! (click on each pillow to go to the website)






This next one is so cool.. she took plain white fabric and hand knit it and then hand dyed it to create this ombre look. Then she sewed it into a pillow. So creative!!


These next ones aren't up on the website yet, but they are available. Email info@isabellastyle.com if you are interested. They are all around $140-$160









So much talent!!

Pillow Sale!!!!

We're having a great pillow sale this week at Isabella! Since working here, I've learned a lot about high end, gorgeous pillows. They seriously change the entire look of a room.. and I've become quite obsessed.

Now's your chance to grab a designer pillow because they are majorly on sale! I took some pictures for you...

All the pillows around the front chest are 50% off:





These are my favorite!! I wish there was a place in my home for them.. they are Kevin O'Brien Ombre velvet.. gorgeous.


These are 20-30% off:

I love the gray wood grain pillows.

All other pillows in the shop are 15% off.



If you see any you like, you can call us at 704.377.4919 or email me at brynalexandra at gmail. We can easily ship them to you!

We also have some on our website that you can order directly here!

I'm going to really have to restrain myself from getting a couple for our own home :)


(In case you are curious, there isn't anything in it for me when I blog about stuff at Isabella. It's a part of my life and I like to share it with you. Erin, the owner, has an amazing eye and has helped me develop my own... I've learned so much from her! I love sharing the beautiful things she finds and selects for the shop. Someday I will have to share with you the spaces we have designed together..)

A throw pillow.. for me! :)

Every single day I pick out pretty pillows for other people.. but we've lived in this house for a year and I have yet to get one for myself.. until now! It's actually pretty funny if you think about it.

In our family room, we've been using two blue pillows from when we lived in California and two pillow forms with no case (ah!) for the past year. You can see that situation in this picture here:



The throw pillow in the vintage chair was purchased for a client, but he didn't need it so I kept (and don't worry, paid for it) instead.

Well, if you remember back in this post, I decided to put a Nympheus pillow in our family room. A couple months later.. it's here!

I purchased the pillow (in June, before my spending freeze haha) from Etsy seller Woody Liana. She was so sweet and great to work with, and her construction was flawless.

Cute package!



I got to pick every little detail.. the front and the back pattern, the color of the welt.

Front:


Back:


I love it!!!



You can see in the above picture the other fabrics I have for this room. Here they are in more detail:



The charcoal Betwixt will be two pillows on my sofa. The striped fabric Liana sent to me because she knew it would go with my new Nympheus pillow!! SO sweet! I'm going to use it for a lumbar on the sofa. The two blues are going to be a front and back of a new blue pillow behind the Nympheus pillow.

As I mentioned during my no-spend month of July, making these pillows is on my to-do list. It will be a free project (I already own all the materials) and I can finally have a room with throw pillows in it! yay!

Still sooo much left to do in this room.. the biggest thing is an art installation above the sofa + chaise. But that will have to wait.

Pretty Pillows

A while back I shared this design board:



My e-decorating client didn't love the gold, so we did some minor tweaks and this is the final design:



I'm revisiting this room, because I sewed the pillows for the room and I wanted to share with you:





I'm going to push hard for "afters" of this project :)

ps - wow my floors look red. Although they are reddish.. they aren't THAT red. I do have dreams of getting them refinished...... someday.

Love these pillows!

Wow, these pillows are awesome. I love them! I found a couple on Pintrest and the rest here on the site. They are all by Villa Home.






















Okay and I really need want this pillow for our family room!



From my experience with this brand, they are probably around the $100-$200 range. If you see one you HAVE to have, email me.