What can I do to make my sofa look better? Well, the first thing you can do grab the pillows the sofa came with, y'know, those matching ones, unzip and keep the fills (you never know when you might need them) and then drop the old pillow covers off at a charity shop. Honestly, it's for the best.

Just like the current penchant for vintage one-of-a-kind lamps the world of pillows has shifted from matchy-matchy to something altogether more unexpected. Pillows, please and thanks, do not have to match your sofa, so step up the sophistication and get shopping! Now, if you're a 'Paris apartment' type the pillows below might not be for you, but they are ever so mid-century cool, and have the history to back it up. This is the Art Collection, a line of vintage prints re-issued by Swedish textile firm Ljunbergs that Design House Stockholm has run up into a swanky line of pillows. Luckily they're available online here, and just think how they'll gussy up your beige sofa!