Cheeky in Blue: A case for Velvet...

Walking around Casa Cheeky for more than a few moments and you will inevitably run into one of our three 65 pound bundles of fur that have taken over our house, or trip over the endless amount of dog toys that have infiltrated our abode. I am the biggest pushover when it comes to my dogs and let them sleep on any couch, chair, or bed that they want. This is a problem for my cream linen wingback chair in my bedroom which looks not so great covered daily in every color of fur. I spend an inordinate amount of time with my handy little tape roller whisking away the bit that I can, swiffer and sweep non stop, but their fur never goes away! Great fabric choices for dogs seem to be nonexistent other than slipcovers, and I'm not sure I want to go that direction for a couch that is in desperate need of recovering thanks to Blue who destroyed it last spring during what clearly was some kind of deranged puppy acting out moment.

I came home to this...

And the next day he did it again, and I caught him in the act...

What to do? Besides locking him up in perpetuity there aren't a lot of options. Thankfully, he's outgrown his horrible eating couch phase and has now moved onto a sadistic killing sweet little squirrels stage...so there's that...

But I still have the couch to contend with, and for the moment it sits in my garage like one of those hoarders from A & E...whilst I deliberate my options...

What I love, what I am crazy over at the moment is velvet...It's so perfectly gorgeous!