Adding Interest to a Small Space and a New Old Sofa

If I am not a if you Give a Mouse a Cookie kind of a decorator then I don't know what I am. I enjoy restyling my home and changing and updating my decor. But, goodness, one thing or one change sure leads to another, and another, and...

So, a new to us couch recently made its way home from the thrift store. I have always said couches and beds are one thing I like purchase new, but now make that just mattresses. I bought a new sectional four years ago. When we moved back to Montana from our one year in Idaho, I sold the sectional because I knew there was no way it was going to fit in the Uhaul and because I was ready to leave grey home furnishings behind. We have been using our old, brown, leather, reclining couch for the past two years since we moved back. Not that we haven't tried to find something new, but there is not a lot out there locally that I love. So, when I spied a velvet (velour, fake velvet, whatever) sofa with a chaise on one end that was also clean at our Goodwill for $70, I bought it. 

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I cleaned it up with my Bissell spot shampooer and donated the reclining couch to a family in need. (I love the Bissell shampooer!! You can get it HERE)

We won't keep this new to us sofa forever, but it is very comfortable and will hold us over until we find the perfect replacement. The new couch in a more taupe than tan color meant furniture rearrangement and replacement. My tan covered chair and funky ottoman didn't work next to the chaise part.

The ottoman got moved to the other side of the sofa as a foot rest for both that end of the couch and for the rocking bamboo chair. The ottoman is on wheels so it moves nicely between the two seats. 

The tan chair is still floating (you can see it behind this chair) and I put this thrifted chair here instead. I added a footstool that I recovered with a Pier One thrifted curtain panel. I think the footstool is quite old, perhaps an antique. It had been recovered at some point in the fabric yu see on it below.

Okay, so this camel colored chair that I moved near the couch was sitting as "second row seating" on the small library stairway wall. With it gone, I saw the map on the wall more.

Remember when maps and globes were all the rage eight+ years ago? I put this thrift store map on the wall shortly after we moved in eight years ago. The map was appropriate for our old schoolhouse home and I was decorating with a lot of aqua color at the time. I put it up with homemade flour paste and it has held well. But with the chair gone, I decided I wanted to freshen up this spot.

I chose a peel and stick wallpaper with a vibrant design. I bought it off Amazon HERE.

Because our walls have quite a bit of texture, I chose to stick the wallpaper right over the map since it is fairly smooth. It went up easily. I was able to pull it off and re-stick it when needed. It is a nice and heavy paper so it laid well with very few wrinkles. I I cut the edges with a sharp exacto knife.

It is a busy pattern that I wouldn't want to have a lot of. This wall space is the perfect size for it. The interest and color it brings to the area is perfect.

I placed this upcycled chair (see the BEFORE HERE) along with the thrift store stool I redid against the newly wallpapered wall. The color addition draws the eye to this spot and it makes me smile. Have you tried peel and stick wallpaper?