Overthink, Rethink, Decide

I have a process that requires way too much time to pull the trigger on most home improvement decisions. It’s overthink, decide, rethink, decide…and even then I skip that last step for months. Maybe the reason I like antiquing so much is because I decide quick. Well I decide if I want to buy something or not. It’s just the restoration/placement of the antique I just purchased that sits for months (sometimes years) before I actually decide what to do with it. (Nick refers to this pile of antiques as the queue.)

So I’m restoring some chairs for the nook. I bought fabric. When it came in, I really, really liked it. Then I rethought about the scale and how much white space there is between the black flowers and how little green there is. I kept over thinking…dare I say even looked for different fabric. Which for the record, I knew was pointless because I exhausted all my options the first time. Nick suggested using the fabric from the drapes in the office since he knows how much I love that fabric. (Plus that room won’t be the office for much longer, so those drapes have to relocate/be repurposed.)

I covered the seat cushions in both fabrics to get a feel for the final outcome before I made any type of commitment. I had to put them on the Eames because the other chairs were getting some polyurethane. I figured I didn’t want to risk ruining either fabric just for the sake of avoiding a decision. (Remember the fabric on the left is is original plan and on the right is the office drapes.) Imagine them against black chairs instead of white.

At this point I realized how much I was avoiding making a decision. The drapes are clearly too large scale for the chair pattern. Yes they have more color because of that, but the flowers are just too large for such a small seat cushion. What is wrong with me? I really like the Serena & Lily fabric which was the original plan anyway. Someone just tell me to make some seat cushions already.

*Update: See how the chairs turned out here.