Pillow Talk: Fall In Love With Your Home's Vibe Again And Again

If you’ve been thinking of a design update in your home, or even just casually wandered into your favorite furniture store, you may have noticed something. You’re there to look at sofas, chairs, or some other significant piece. But what you see more than anything is pillows — lots and lots of pillows.

Which may have you channeling your inner Jerry Seinfeld, saying “What’s the deal with pillows?” Good question. With an even better answer.

Now, before we go much further, let’s clarify something. This may at first seem like an infomercial for one of our services here at KOVI. (And we’re definitely going to talk about one of our services.) But this isn’t just that. We’re actually passionate about what a game-changer something so comically simple as pillows are in your home.

What interior designers know — and too many of us misunderstand — is that throw pillows aren’t an afterthought. They’re a power move. And they’re one of the least expensive, yet most impactful design tools at your disposal. And we just made them easier.

How To Give Your Home Style Swagger With The Power Of Pillows

Let’s change context to spending the time and money to find the perfect outfit for some big event. You don’t put it on and roll out the door in a pair of beat up work boots and bedhead. You finish the outfit with details that make it really make it come alive.

Great. Now, picture your living room.

You’ve put some thought, even some love into it. From the lines of the space, to the furniture and lighting you’ve chosen. But it feels a bit flat, like there’s something missing. It’s that “outfit” before the right shoes and accessories.

Picture the same space again.

This time, there are plush velvet pillows in sapphire blue and/or sage green on your sofa catching the light you so carefully curated. Those wingback reading chairs you love are adorned with lumbar pillows in an Eden Chambray floral pattern or a silver, white, and gold abstract teardrop pattern. Or perhaps you’ve spiced up the scene and added allure with a caliente red chenille or pearl white shearling.

Feels different, right?

Because finishing touches have purpose. They add story, character, and personality. As important as the right sofa, chair, etc are, the right pillow in the right fabric can transform a room faster (and cheaper) than just about anything else.

So you don’t have to replace your big pieces to make big changes to your big spaces. Change the pillow fabrics so they tell the story you want to be living. Here at the largest online furniture upholstery fabric store, we know a thing or two about that.

(Pro tip: Is it pillow covers, cases, or shams? Yes. Those are all pretty much synonyms — sham just sounds the fanciest.)

How Our Custom Pillow Service Simplifies Your Home’s Style Refresh

Our inspiration center is chock full of DIY tips, expert insights, and even video guides from our favorite YouTuber, Aimee from Artisan Upholstery Studio, including loads of ideas for DIYing pillow covers. But we’re well aware that you’re busy and you’re sold on the benefit of changing out your pillow covers, so we’ve started offering a pillow cover service — custom, of course.

Because design should be accessible, personal, and certainly not one-size-fits-all. It can and should be about you and the flavor of welcome you want to offer in your home. Here are just some of the basics our custom pillow cover service includes:

Each pillow is sewn-to-order by real people, not machines pumping out generic decor.
The largest selection of premium upholstery fabrics available for custom pillows. We’re talking 20,000+ options. (Not a typo.)
Premium hypoallergenic faux down inserts included, so your design refresh means starting fresh, too.
Your custom order is delivered to your door in 2-3 weeks, giving you just enough time to reimagine your space in anticipation.

Ordering is easy — super easy. Browse the fabrics, find the ones that speak to you, and from there it’s pretty much just clicking “Order Custom Pillows.” That’s it. Oh, and choose your size of course, with a range of options like classic 18 x 18 and lumbar. We’ll handle the rest.

And we’re here to help along the way, on account of it’s what we love to do.

How Pillows Help Your Home — And Style — Fit The Life You Live

So, yes, pillows have a massive impact as decor, but also they’re not just decoration. They’re your laptop stand for one last Zoom call of the day. They’re your dog’s favorite snuggle buddy. Sometimes they’re for movie night, sometimes breakfast in bed, sometimes for catching a few afternoon zzzz’s.

Again, this isn’t a pitch, so much as it’s pride. We set out to create a service that wasn’t just for designers or people who have deeply studied color theory.

We designed it with you in mind. Whether you’re wanting your IKEA sofa to feel more like a custom designed piece. Or you’re a new homeowner feeling lost in a sea of beige. Or a kitschy collector who assembled a space so eclectic that you need some neutral to knit the whole thing together.

We designed the service for you because pillows are functional, pillows are emotional, and, heck yes, with the right fabric pillows are transformational.

Like that IKEA sofa with pillows in our new earthy red and orange abstract geometric pattern eco-friendly fabric and a rust-toned small scale basketweave fabric. Or that sea of beige brought to life with pillows in ocean blue contemporary elliptical pattern embroidered fabric and fern green microsuede. Or that vintage-obsessed collector’s stellar gallery freed to shine thanks to pillows dialing down the rest of the vibe in beige and white classic check and houndstooth pattern damask fabric and eggshell beige performance fabric.

Transforming Your Home’s Vibe With Pillows Has Never Been This Easy

Here’s a little secret… you probably don’t need a full design makeover. At least not when you’ve got your home’s vibe feeling close to the mark, but also kind of lackluster and uninspiring. A few well-placed pillows can breathe new life into your favorite spaces.

There’s a superpower to an indigo chenille or mauve velvet so soft your bathrobe gets jealous. There’s an elegance about faux silk like cinnamon red or daffodil yellow, elevating a space you use every day so it feels miles from just an everyday thing.

And there’s something grounding about a white and ivory Crypton cotton, spring blue and gold floral linen, or blush pink and white striped cotton, giving your family room Nancy Meyers’ film vibes that have you feeling like you’re not just watching The Holiday, you’re kind of in it.

So we thought what you actually might need is someone who understands how to help you get all those things quickly, easily, while feeling cared for along the way, helping you add a little bit of design magic. One pillow at a time.