Our friend got a new orange tweed couch. To spice it up, she wanted a chaotic mix of colored and patterned pillows. We headed downtown to find the fabric. Our first stop, as always, was The Loft. More pictures, and the resulting pillows, after the jump...

Two flights above Michael Levine's home fabrics store, The Loft is just that: a spare, barren space with fabric folded on hangers, piled in boxes or jammed onto shelves. We often strike out but on this day we hit paydirt. We came home with 15 pounds of fabric -- yep, it's priced by the pound here -- $2 per pound, no cutting. Our haul included some material we'd seen downstairs, across the street or at other stores for many times the price we paid. We picked up some trim downstairs and dropped the fabric at her upholsterer. The result:

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The Loft (Michael Levine's Upstairs)

917 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA

213.622.0507

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Comments (8)

Love the sofa not the cushions, I'd keep the one on the extreme R and the little teal one( centre)

I hate going to The Loft, but always do whenever I go to Michael Levine's. The Loft is so dirty and dusty- always have to take allergy meds beforehand!

Love the color of the couch and agree with the above comment regarding the pillows.

The pillows remind me of the hard Christmas candy my grandmother kept on the coffee table at Christmas. Hard as rocks, I'm sure it was the same candy in the same bowl year after year. I soon learned that if you put it in your mouth, the reflex was to spit it back out. If you managed to suck on it for any legnth of time, or bite it, a slimely substance would ooze out of the center.....And that's what these pillows look like.

Sometimes the Loft is worth the effort! Last year at the Loft, I scored a few yards of Eames 'small dots' fabric in cream/fawn, enough to upholster 4 dining chairs...

I am perhaps an outlier, but I love the random nature of the pillows with the orange couch.

Wish we had something like the above in SF...or maybe somebody knows of a fun place like that open now. There used to be one south of Market, but it left a while back.

there's a 2$/yard place in oakland. Happy Stop, 1132 E 12th St. Discount Fabric is good too, but more $$

Erica: THANK YOU!!!! I've been longing for a good fabric by the pound place in the bay area. I miss SAS in Tucson, AZ(college days).