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Furniture Slipcovers - A Cost Effective Way To Enliven Your Living Room
Furniture slipcovers can save your day! Imagine there will be some important guests dropping in for a brief stay with you next week. How could you bring in a change to your living room? A new sofa set? The latest sensation in the market, with a 5 channel surround sound stereo system? A new chandelier with 21 bulbs? Of course all of them will give your living room a face lift - but at the same time will punch a deep hole in your pocketbook.
When you think about giving a change to your living room without spending a small fortune, then think about furniture slipcovers. As the name suggests furniture slipcovers are the one that you slip over them particularly on the backrest portion of chairs, sofas.
Furniture slip covers are of three main varieties. The first type will be a cover that snugly fits into the back rest without any wrinkles. The second one will have a little loose fit and can be tied down with the cloth ribbon made out of the same fabric and stitched to the both side of the open portion of the slip cover. The third type is a little more popular than the other two, and is the one that slips easily to the furniture and have button holes on one side in them which can be easily pushed through the button fixed to the back portion of the furniture. This is more popular and suited for sofa sets rather than wooden piece of furniture.
Despite the cleanliness of the house, due to constant contact with the hair, the back rest portion of the furniture will have stains as the time passes, even the best made out of 'stain resistant material' as claimed by the manufacturer. The one way to get rid of them is to use furniture slip covers.
You could choose a color that goes well with the sofa and the general color scheme of the living room. Two or three sets of them will help you to rotate them on a regular basis that will maintain the original nature of the furniture of the living room. Being the first place where the guests will pay a critical gaze to your house a new slipcover on the furniture will be a good idea.
Another plus point about slip covers is that you can work some pattern on them which surely add to the beauty of the furniture. A motif on the three seating sofa and the smaller version of that in the other individual sofas will give a stunning look about them. Or patterns made out of other cloths patched up on the slip cover also are equally good in giving a different look for the same sofa.
Do take care about choosing the color of the slip covers. Too much contrast will have a repulsing look. At the same time do not go for a lighter color of the sofa which again a pale look about them. You don't want your guest's mood to be of that kind, do you?
So when you pick furniture slipcovers, go for a color that will be a match to the sofa and the color of the living room. Before making the purchase of the cloth, ask for 4 or 5 color samples from the merchant to try how it will actually look like in the living loom lights. Once satisfied with the two or three colors, go ahead, make slip covers out of them and wait for your guests with a new look living room.
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