How I Changed the SunROOM into a Casual SunPORCH

This is a project I have wanted to do for a very long time and it never made it the top of my To Do list..... until now

I wanted  to give our sunroom the feeling that it was an extension of the yard....not an extension of the living room.    

    So,   I made changes to the decor,,,,,replaced some of the furniture..... and gave it a new name...

The Sun Porch

In the before picture you see two bulky living room style upholstered chairs.......in the after photo I have replaced them with porch style airy white wicker chairs.    I am hoping to find a different sofa that will be a better fit for the new look.        I sent the 2 upholstered chairs to the auction and my long time favorite giraffe lamp went to the studio and loves her new home there.  

I replaced lots of my indoor style accessories with lush faux green plants that give the new sun porch a feeling of sitting outside......and with the doors open you are as about  close as you can get without actually being outside...lol!

I replaced the decorating accessories on each side of the armoire with very realistic looking plants.   I got several of my plants at Home Goods and a couple of them came from upscale estate sales.

I made similar changes to this side of the room. 

  In the photo below,   you will see that the rockers were replaced with the wicker chairs that you see in the above photo.     The wicker chairs on this side of the room match the ones on each side of the sofa.    The wicker chairs are so light weight that I can easily set the four of them out in the yard around a card table and dine al fresco with friends or play some cards!

In the before photo,   you see a centerpiece I made using live wild flowers that I gathered in a near by field    When they died,   I replaced them with a faux succulent centerpiece that I will use until I get a chance to get some live fall flowers.   I like to use live flowers whenever possible...and faux in the mean time.

I created a new vignette for the top of the buffet......and designed a flower/plant tree to set on the side of my water trough buffet.      I included pink sunflowers like I have used in the rest of the room in my design and I have gorgeous faux cat tails springing out of the sunflowers.    I found my cat tails at Paul Michaels a few years ago when I was at the big market in Canton Texas. 

They are so life like it's hard to tell they are faux and not real!

I'm so glad that you stopped by.......come back again real soon....hugs