Spirit of Individuality

Changing the style of your home can be a gradual process, built around specific furniture or individual architectural details within a home. Today it is very easy for people to get bogged down or stuck in a style rut, especially in the home. Interior design trends change as often as fashions in clothes, but it’s a bit harder to change the style of your home like you would a pair of jeans.

Joanna Whitworth, co-founder of Covermyfurniture.com says: “We’re seeing more decorating trends following fashion. In the past, fashion was very minimal, now it’s more established. So today’s rules say it’s okay to mix styles, for example, to put in a clean-line sofa in a more traditional setting and visa versa. People are no longer pigeonholed into one style, everything adds up to personal taste.”

This is great news for those of you who want instant results in your home without having a complete overhaul in order to keep up to date. It is also a fantastic way to really express your own personal tastes, enabling you to keep the look your own. One way to really express the spirit of your individuality is through Covermyfurniture.com’s various furniture cover designs. The collection of designs available reflect a range of individual styles that will let you mix and match, allowing you to express yourself through your choices.

The new movement of “trad-modern” i.e. the fusion of modern materials and traditional designs is the perfect trend to follow for those of you who want to put your personality into your home, think retro, art-deco, modernism & Baroque but with a modern twist. Covermyfurniture.com’s Mandara and Tico ranges have a modern take on the classic floral design and are available in a choice of the most popular living room shades. A cover in this design would really capture “trad-modern” when put over a sharp edged contemporary sofa or chair.

If you are a nature lover, home design is also taking on environmental motifs. Even if you can't be outside, you can still bring the outdoors indoors, bringing calmness to your inner spirit.

The Wisteria and Folly range is for all garden lovers who want to bring the outside in! The fabulous flowers will bring your furniture alive and look particularly good on conservatory furniture. The Folly covers really have that wow factor! You can choose from red or pink for a really dramatic look and they look great if you mix and match them with plain covers in your room.

So with the current interior trends promoting individuality, what better way to do it than with a cover from Covermyfurniture.com? During May, Covermyfurniture.com is offering 50% off all chair and sofa covers and is also running a special offer on its Romo range of sofa covers. From 12 May until 31 May you will be able to purchase a made-to measure sofa cover from the Romo range for just £99. The range is available in a choice of 6 popular plain colours, including rich cream, duck egg and deep rose.

The Kid Proof Sofa

The days of putting off the purchase of a new sofa until the children get older are over. Donning the attitude that sleek interiors and sticky little fingers can go hand in hand, Covermyfurniture.com have created sofa covers that can withstand the rigours of child raising while serving a multitude of functions - eating, sleeping and jumping to name a few.

Covermyfurniture.com’s made-to-measure covers are easily removable and machine washable, so if you are a parent or grandparent, you can now stop worrying every time a pizza gets dropped or a drink gets spilled!

The covers incorporate sturdy, kid-proof styles that are not only durable, but incredibly practical. Available in contemporary floral designs, chic patterns and popular plain colours, the covers will instantly transform the furniture in your room as well as act as a reliable barrier to your much loved sofa. Easy to re-fit, they can be machine washed time after time.

Joanna Whitworth, co-founder of Cover My Furniture says; “So many parents and grandparents make do with loose throws to protect furniture from the kids… however, these can sometimes not look that great. Covermyfurniture.com provides a stylish tailor-made product, so the frame of your sofa doesn’t have to be hidden away.”

Get the British Touch Anywhere...

British expatriate numbers have been increasing annually for many years. According to various studies by Barclays Bank and the Office of National Statistics, one million of us have migrated permanently to live abroad in the past six years. We Brits have always had a reputation for exploration, both in terms of travel and lifestyle, because we have an insatiable appetite for enriching our own experiences.

Whatever our reasons for migrating, the one thing we all dream of is setting up the perfect home. However, the reality of creating a living space away from our home country can be somewhat different to the fantasy.

Accommodating shops that close for 3 hours at lunch time can take a while to become the norm, especially when the shopping is limited at best. Not all of us are gifted bi-linguists either. Not speaking the language of your chosen country can impose many difficulties, particularly when you are trying to explain what fabric you want for your new curtains, or the shade of paint you want for your living room.

Missing loved ones also means that many of us yearn for a bit of familiarity and crave that ‘British touch’ in the home – of which quality and designs cannot be found in most overseas countries. The DIY and interiors market in Europe is also a lot more expensive, not to mention much more limited than the UK market.

If you long for top quality furnishings in your home that you can’t get hold of in your adopted country then you need look no further than www.covermyfurniture.com.

The recently launched online, made-to-measure furniture covering service was set up with the needs of British expatriates in mind. Cover My Furniture customer service manager, Jackie Thompson says: “Cover My Furniture has a unique ordering process that means no consultant is required to come into your home to measure the furniture/items you want covering. You actually do some simple measuring yourself. The great thing about the process is the benefits to those living abroad who want quality, UK designs delivered to their doorstep, without the usual hassles involved… not only are the designs in keeping with British fashions but the covers will fit your furniture like a glove”.

Joanna Whitworth, Co-founder of Cover My Furniture continues: “Covering a piece of furniture with Covermyfurniture.com also means that you will have a sofa or a chair that actually looks like a brand new piece… however, you won’t have had to fork out the extortionate transportation costs that shipping a new piece from Britain would incur”.

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Change the look of your home in an environmentally friendly way

It is a fact that the success of recycling is of utmost importance to our society and to make it really work, everyone needs to participate and do their bit. With kerbside recycling schemes being rolled-out across the UK, we are all becoming more aware of the need to partake in the three ‘R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Mountains of waste are being dumped in landfills every year. Though we are all pretty well educated in the processes of recycling small items like aluminium, glass, and paper, how many of us realise just how easy it is to recycle larger items – like a sofa or armchair.

Many of us would like to change our homes the same way we change our seasonal wardrobes, but few of us can actually afford to. A recent survey* carried out to cast light on people’s interior tastes revealed that 60% of people could only afford to redecorate their homes every 2-5 years, even though the same percentage said that their tastes actually changed from year to year.

Luckily now, not only is there a more affordable, stylish and easy solution to instantly change the look of your home, but there is an environmentally friendly one too, enabling you to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. Rather than spending a fortune on this season’s fleetingly fashionable designs, or putting up with a shameful suite, you can give your piece of furniture a stunning new look using a unique service: made-to-measure, furniture covers from Covermyfurniture.com.

Says Joanna Whitworth, co-founder of Covermyfurniture.com: “Interior fashions are changing faster than ever. But big items of furniture are too valuable to simply scrap when they go out of fashion. Whatever the shape of your furniture we can cover it – and it makes much more sense environmentally to revive your furniture rather than consigning that much-loved sofa to the skip!”

In the same survey, 33% of respondents used loose covers on their furniture, yet 77% don’t like the look of them. Covers from Covermyfurniture.com, however are made to fit your furniture like a glove, making it look like a brand new piece.

*Carried out by Koan Ltd