10 Throw Pillows that Make Us Smile
We confess: we love, love, love a nice throw pillow. The best throw pillows can change the look of a whole room – and they’re inexpensive to boot. Decorating with an ever-evolving collection of throw pillows is one of our favorite ways to keep our home looking fresh and ready for each approaching season.
We’re in a springtime mood these days (obviously! It’s April!), so we went in search of some great pillows that will add some fresh air to our stale, just-out-of-winter interiors. We found more lovely pillows than we could count, but here are our 10 favorites:
Anthropologie is absolutely brilliant at creating unique, fun home accessories, like this pillow, which asks the age old question, “which came first”"
We love the cheeky subject, not to mention the edgy lime-and-tomato color combo.
Etsy is one amazing place to find truly one-of-a-kind home finds – especially pillows. It can be overwhelming, actually! We love all the pillows by Etsy seller VeeDubz, but this “tree of life” graphic is our favorite:
Great color and neat, simple design. We think this pillow would work perfectly in a kid’s room, a family room, or even the kitchen.
Pigtown Design is another Etsy favorite of ours (and favorite blogger). She’s recently started frequenting a warehouse that sells leftover stock of very fancy fabrics, and she’s begun making fantastic pillows with her finds. For spring, we’re all about toile and we love this Charlestown town toile fabric she found:
We love Wendy and her “shabby nest” (that’s shabby in the chic way, of course). We also can’t get enough of her pillows, which she makes herself. They’re sweet and very, very pretty:
Nina van der Goor’s blog is one of our favorite places to get design information – her combination of bright color and Scandinavian minimalism is right up our alley. So are these fun pillows in her living room:
They’d be a cinch to make yourself, too – just find the right fabric and make a simple pattern and you’re in business!
6. The Carioca
Summer begs for bright colors and big patterns, doesn’t it? That’s why we love our very own Carioca pillow in cantaloupe, aurora red, orange and pale buttercup:
It doesn’t get much more energetic than red and orange…though we also love that the pattern itself has some traditional elements, so it can help brighten up even conservative spaces.
7. The Lilly Pulitzer Treasure Chest
This spring, Lilly Pulitzer and Garnet Hill announced they were partnering on a new line of bed linens and preppy girls all over the world went wild. The resulting patterns are – no surprise – a lot of fun. So much fun, in fact, that we think they could move from bed to sofa. We especially love the island bright patterns of the Treasure Chest collection:
A little bit India Hicks, right?
8. The Brunschwig & Fils Fabriano
Some of our favorite Very Fancy Fabrics come from the textile designers at Brunschwig & Fils (even the name sounds fancy). For spring, we love the idea of lightening up a traditional living room with pillows made of a delicate, but fun, pattern, like the B&F Fabriano in butter:
9. The Alvine Floral from IKEA
Ah, IKEA. Our home for all things Swedish and really, really cheap. It’s the perfect place to lay your hands on some super fun accessories that don’t need to last more than one season. This year, we love the Alvine Floral, which has fun flowers on one side and great stripes on the other. A perfect combination!
10. The Knitted Pouf
Who says pillow have to be, well, pillow-shaped? CB2, the more modern, less expensive spinoff of Crate & Barrel, is full of fun home accessories, including this adorable pouf:
Its color is great for spring – we love lime! – but it’s knitted texture makes it a fantastic year-round addition to the home.
What are your favorite places to find great pillows? Any secrets to share?
When she’s not mopping up juice spills, Kit throws way-too-big parties, cooks complicated dinner, and decorates (and redecorates) her house. Plus, she writes about all of it – both the fabulous and the disastrous – for Examiner.com, Baltimore Magazine, Houzz.com and on her personal blog, Mango & Ginger.
