Pillows for a Punch

Thank you for the sweet comments on my last post.  Overwhelmingly, no one chastised me on my big old mess... most inquired of my paint color.  I love, love, love it!  Sherwin Williams "Quietude" (6212). We painted almost three years ago, and I do know that these companies tend to change names, but they CAN find it!  Anyway, it is divine and certainly lives up to its name.  Thank you for asking!

I must be in a house mode as today, I am celebrating my new throw pillows in our Great Room.  Mike was tired of the sofa and thought that getting slipcovers made would be a nice change.  Silly man, don't you know that custom slipcovers cost a must as getting something recovered?  And with these two testosteron-y boys, that just isn't happening!  So we I opted for new pillows.  Our old ones were very dirty and dated, when palmetto and palm trees were all the rage down here.  Pretty, but I needed a "punch".

Here are the new ones... I don't like the picture, 

but I promise it looks fabulous!

Here they are up close.  They are kind of "tweedy" and I love the cording...I chose cording because fringe and loops are just too tempting for even the most disciplined boys! 

How would you like to add a "punch" to your room?