Shopping around on upholstery colors and a little work here and there

I'm going to be heading out to work on the cabover this morning for a bit.  Thunder in the distance, but  it looks like it's going to roll north of me.  Darn...need the rain here.

While I was having my cuppa's this morning I was looking around at upholstery fabrics.  I thought I might stick with color schemes that go with the striping on the RV, blues and teals.

Here's a color combo choice I am mulling over, the dark plain color would be for the main seat cushions and the lighter patterned would be for the pillow backs and such.  Let me know your thoughts if you like or no like.  :)  I'm not much of an interior design person, but I want something that's going to hold up well and be easy cleaning.....and cheap enough that I have spare fabric in case of a major tear or boo boo.

The patterned one has some other colors to it that I can compliment with other accessories too.

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Comment by Dawn Michelle on June 23, 2017 at 9:40am

HAAHH!  Oh I LOVE that PICTURE!  I felt silly enough bringing the dinette cushions in but apparently it's done all the time.

Comment by Russell E Johnson on June 23, 2017 at 9:39am

I will haul the MMP to the store when I get the windows covered. That way they can measure and if/when there is a problem they will be out the money to redo it, not me. For us sewing challenged people it is the only way to go LOL.

Comment by Dawn Michelle on June 23, 2017 at 9:31am

You know Russ - we got lucky.  Because the curtains were pintucked I actually had the measurements too short, but the woman did us right and we did just right with only a little extra.  If I had tried to figure it out, I wouldn't have had a huge fail!!

Comment by Russell E Johnson on June 23, 2017 at 9:30am

LOL, Dawn. Its that specialized, personalized service you paid for. You just forgot to request the extra special service where they add in getting things correct.

Comment by Dawn Michelle on June 23, 2017 at 9:30am

Meaning the dinette cushions - not a pillow cushion, which is what I'm going to be doing now!

Comment by Dawn Michelle on June 23, 2017 at 9:29am

I don't know if this helps, but I had fallen in love with, and had my heart set on a different material for the cushions.  But - it was $30 a yard.  When I realized how much I needed and how much the foam was going to cost (which wasn't optional - I checked Amazon), the woman at the store made the best suggestion - find something cheaper (and she showed me the lime which original I poo-poo'd but then came back to) and then just get a yard or less of the favorite and use it for an accent - pillows, curtain tiebacks, the valance covering - just something so you can still have it, but save some money.  I tend to obsess over things and that was a great "misdirection" that ultimately I feel good about :-)

Comment by Tina on June 23, 2017 at 9:26am

I really should do that, I think I'll take a trip to JoAnn's this weekend and see what they have in stock...and on sale of course.  ;-)  I have two cushions that are going to take at least 5-6 yds. of material just to cover them.  This is going to get costly if I don't watch meself here.  LOL

Comment by Dawn Michelle on June 23, 2017 at 9:19am

That is!  Of course we bought ours at our local store - so I went  in with the cushions, and then the curtain measurements and they figured it out for me - LOL.  That's what I paid extra for - HAHA.

Comment by Tina on June 23, 2017 at 9:06am

LOL, I didn't even notice your typonese Rich. :)

Dawn, this might be of help as well. It's a calculator for determining yardage. I definitely needed this. ;-)

http://www.fabric-calculator.com/

Comment by Rich Thomas on June 22, 2017 at 3:25pm

Sorry Tina, I Like both!!!!!!!!!!

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