Wayfair.com has generously sponored this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own, as always.
When Hubs and I first got married, our furniture was a hodge podge of college hand-me-downs, rejects from our parent’s house, goodwill finds and just plain ugliness. The only saving grace was a GORGEOUS, giant sofa that my Nana purchased for our wedding gift (Thank you, Nana!!). It’s still the statement piece for our den, and the piece that gets the most comments. But seeing that it’s the only thing we love, I’m constantly looking for matching pieces or complimentary chairs to complete my room… the search is endless… If I could only find a chair in the right shape, a fabulous color and a few throw pillows to accent it, everything would be perfect.
But, it’s really hard for my brain to design a piece of furniture and not be able to find it because no one makes it. Or, to find a chair that doesn’t come in the color scheme that I need. It’s really frustrating for a designer’s brain. When I was told about the new custom upholstery section of Wayfair.com, it was a load off my mind. They have just launched a new line of custom upholstered furniture, including sofas, ottomans, chairs, and more. So, you can imagine that I was really eager to see if I could find something for my comfy den!
Wayfair has a lot of collections to customize, including the popular Brooke, and Josephine pieces. You can browse here to see all the different furniture styles that are available. When I first checked out the collections, what I really liked was the classic pieces that could live in my house for years and remain stylish, but still feeling trendy and update-able and fitting into several different categories of decor.
I happen to be crushing on the Josephine armchair and Ottoman – it’s the perfect rounded-edge and casual formality for my craftsman style furniture. Even better? I can see it in all the swatches Wayfair.com has to offer. I can even take a closeup look at all the fabrics by selecting the “View Swatches” tab under the small images.
When you click on that, a popup window appears, with awesome, textural closeups of your fabrics. After much perusal, I selected Lizzy Surf, Lizzy Graphite, Bevin Rain, and Hilo Seagull and ordered my swatches by clicking the button. Easy… and best of all? No charge. I know some other design firms charge up to $3 for a swatch!
I got a personalized thank you email from an actual HUMAN after ordering the swatches, which I thought was really impressive. No auto-bots that I saw for Wayfair.com’s Custom program. The swatches arrived less than two weeks later and were fairly large. 5″ squares with nice little labels on the backside detailing the fiber content, color name and texture weave. It’s invaluable to be able to compare these swatches to my leathers, wall colors and existing fabrics.
To celebrate the new custom options, Wayfair.com is holding a quiet little sale to kick off the campaign! You can use this exclusive promo code WFCustom10 from October 16th to October 20th for a percentage off your purchase. It’s nowhere on social media or other sites, so be sure use it during the sale! This makes me want to throw that Josephine Ottoman in there with the chair. More savings!!
Take a peek at all of Wayfair’s custom offerings and let me know what piece you’d love to customize! It just might be during this promo code period that I snag my new den chair..
Oh, I like that chair a lot!!!! We need new furniture in a bad way!
I need an chair and ottoman. This may be a solution that works for us! Thanks.
I wish I saw this before furniture shopping over the weekend!
I can’t wait to see it! I promise to keep my kids sticky hands off of your new furniture!
🙂 🙂 If it’s polyester fabric that I choose, NO stains! Weeeee!
Me, too. I might look into it a little deeper.
What did you end up picking?