Making it Yours 12A: Lincoln and Dhurrie Armchairs

We have the first two of our designs up from this edition of Making it Yours today! I’m decorating around both the Lincoln and Dhurrie chairs, showing how each can be used throughout a person’s life, seeing them through different stages and different styles. Let’s meet our fictional friend, Marie.

Marie likes to sing. Loudly. She’s shy about it though, at first limiting her performances to coincide with her morning shower, and later when her roommate moved out, she’d perform encores throughout the day while doing chores or cooking dinner. She won’t get on stage for karaoke and isn’t into the whole bar scene, but she throws parties on a whim just about every month. She knows everything about astrology but doesn’t believe in it, loves big, goofy dogs, and always wears a crazy hat. She’s about to turn thirty, and has been working a lot of late nights but is starting to make decent money. She’s fun, happy, and bright, and wants her apartment to be too.

1. Dhurrie Chair, Anthropologie • Lincoln Chair, Pottery Barn

2. Block Print Ikat Lumbar Pillow, Furbish

3. Seachange Print, Jenny Vorwaller

4. Yes, Please Print: Martha Rich, 20×200

5. Paint: Flush Pink, Behr

6. Wood Pole Scholar Floor Lamp: Avalon Sea, Target

7. Perfect Throw: Mandarin, West Elm

8. Laguna Seagrass Baskets: Juice, Serena & Lily

9. Upton Faceted Leg Buffet, West Elm

10. Frosted Blue Vase Collection, Terrain

11. Rosie Table Lamp, CB2

12. Balloon Animal Bookend, The Land of Nod

13. Stockholm Nesting Tables, IKEA

14. Avec Apartment Sofa: Sea Salt, CB2 • Avec Apartment Sofa: Peacock, CB2

15. Colorblock Linen Pillow,: Emerald & Pool, Society Social • Magical Thinking Neon Rag Pillow, Urban Outfitters

16. Ojo de Dios Rug, Arro Home

For this first post, I kept the looks fairly similar, swapping out only a few things to achieve the same overall look. I’ll be taking a different approach next time though, which I’ll be sharing next week!