Rose Tree Stoneleigh Pillow

I was terribly excited about this pillow for my new 'cream' leather rocker/recliner, especially because both sides have a different pattern (you can't really tell in the images of the product, but one side is striped and the other has a fleur-de-lis pattern of sorts [my apologies to any interior designers out there who balked at that pattern description, I'm just not sure what the appropriate term is for that pattern!])

At any rate, my complaints are two-fold, but they're pretty significant when you're talking about a throw pillow that costs this much:

First, the tassels. Upon receiving the pillow, two were missing. Okay, not the end of the world, but for an OCD kid like me, it took some of the wind out my sails that my perfectly tasseled pillow began it's life of decorative classiness with gaps in its frill. However, when I removed the pillow from the box and set it down on the chair SET IT DOWN another tassel fell off. I kid you not, I didn't 'throw' the pillow on the chair, I 'placed' it, and that was enough to jostle another tassel. Lame. (Since then I've lost yet another, this time due to a guest sitting in the chair with this as a lumbar pillow, tassel popped off when he stood up)

Second, the 'fleur-de-lis' pattern was not centered properly on the pillow. Let me try to explain this as best I can. Look at the picture of the pattern...see how there is a cream pattern in the center, and dark brown at the top center and bottom corners? That looks alright, right? For MY pillow, the pattern side was 98% cream, it was as if the fabric shifted upward and there is almost NO dark brown pattern at all. I just have the very smallest tip of the dark brown at the top-center, and two tiny dark brown tips in the bottom corners...essentially taking this lovely two-toned pattern down to just one. And a cream pattern on a cream background laying on a cream-colored leather chair looks...well, it looks pretty awful. :(

"So what?", you say. "You've still got a perfectly fine cream and dark brown striped pattern on the other side, right?". Yes, you're right, and that's how it's placed currently (sans four tassels...sigh), but when I BOUGHT this pillow, I didn't even know the back side was striped! I'd purchased it FOR the fleur-de-lis pattern because that matched OTHER patterns on pillows on my couch and throughout my interior decor. So, the striped side doesn't even look very good. And since I didn't even expect there to be a striped side when I bought it, I can't use that to 'save' it in this review. I give this product 2 stars...and that's only because it's soft and comfortable, and it functions as a pillow (as it should)

All in all, for this price, you could get TWO pillows from TJ Maxx or Ross that would likely be of a better quality...and without tassels! :)

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