Save Your Sanity: Use Loose Covers

Many people don't think about loose covers when it comes to redecorating their home, yet loose covers are an inexpensive tool that not only protects but also renews the look of your furniture.

If you've spent several hundred pounds on a furniture suite for your living room, getting exactly the right color and fabric you wanted, you might wonder why on earth you'd want to hide that perfection with slipcovers. Well, the answer is simple. Accidents happen. It's better to strip off a removable loose covers and throw it into a washing machine, then have to re-upholster or replace the damaged fabric on one of the pieces of furniture of your perfect living room suite.

Because loose covers are easy to put on and take off, there's no need to have them on all the time, of course. Many people reserve them for certain occasions - for example when they are entertaining a group of kids during a birthday party.

Loose covers don't just come in demure white or other solid colors. They come in floral patterns, in geometric patterns, even in plaids. They come in themed patterns - sports, holidays, and so on.

Most people don't want it to be obvious that they have loose covers on their furniture, they want it to look as if the material on that furniture is what came with it originally. And with made to measure loose covers , this is easily achieved.

Loose covers, therefore, are used not only to protect the original upholstery of your furniture, but also to give a new look to old, faded upholstery, so that you don't have to go to the expense of re-upholstering it.

More than that, loose coversare used in situational relief - to brighten up a holiday or birthday party, for example. And if you've got a bunch of old, mis-matched furniture, the easiest way to make them look like a matching set is to buy a set of matching loose coversfor them!

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Adam Peters is the editor of http://www.home-decorating-reviews.com/.