A Spring Decorating Tip for Affordably Refreshing Your Rooms: Slipcovers

It is spring, so you may be thinking of refreshing your furniture and your space. Especially if your sofa, loveseat, or chair has seen better days! One solution is to give an update to your tired furniture with a slipcover.

A slipcover is a fitted or loosely fitted piece of cover material that slips over a piece of furniture. Custom-ordered slipcovers fit snuggly over your existing furniture. But other slipcovers come in a loose-fitting style. Read on to find out more about slipcovers. And why slipcovers may be the solution to your decorating problems.

An Affordable Decorating Idea: Slipcovers

I think you can have a beautiful home if you want one. But buying a brand new sofa from your local furniture store can be expensive. Even if you have a small interior decorating budget, there’s still plenty you can do to create a stylish, inviting home for yourself.

For example, you can save by not replacing furniture. Have you ever wanted to change the style or character of a room but could not afford new furniture? Well, there is a solution, and it is called slipcovers. Rather than buying an entirely new sofa or loveseat, purchase a simple slipcover to give your space a new look. Slipcovers are a stylish accessory that lets you change your home’s look on a whim.

The chair slipcover pictured above stretches to accommodate the contours of your chair. And it attaches to the chair by its elastic edge. The ivory white coloured slipcover updates this cottage’s great room giving it a rustic modern farmhouse look.

Slipcovers: A Room Accessory that Changes the Room’s Look

There has been a renewed interest in the interior design industry for slipcovers and the popularity of a more informal interior design. Loose-fitting slipcovers create a relaxed style such as the modern farmhouse style. Or it supports a beachy vibe in a cottage or lake house too.

The slipcover above changed the look of the traditional-style living room in Aurora, Ontario. Below is the before photo of the living room. A looser fitting style allows the covers to fit more pieces of furniture too. The slipcover above fits a variety of sofa sizes because it is loose-fitting.

This slipcover has ties which help it fit the contours of curved arms. Furthermore, this slipcover can be tucked into the sides of the sofa to ensure fit. It gives the living room and the sofa a modern farmhouse style feel, even though they looked more traditional at first.

A perfectly fitting slipcover looks so polished you can’t even tell it’s not a permanent part of your sofa. If you prefer a more polished look, you can get slipcovers to fit snugly. But you’ll need to custom order these types of slipcovers. Lynteriors can help you with this.

Protect Your Furniture with a Slip Cover

If temporary protection of your furniture is what you have on your mind, then slipcovers are a great way to protect your prized pieces of furniture if your situation for wanting a change is due to young children or pets. They can protect your sofa from stains and damage.

They are great too if you have a cottage or pool as well. Since slipcovers protect your sofas from outside dirt.

Many Slipcovers are Machine Washable

And the fact that it’s removable means you can easily pop it into the wash. If your pet or child soil the slipcover, it is easily removable, and most are machine washable. Check that it is machine washable if that is why you want one.

Home Staging and Slipcovers

Summary

Slipcovers may be the solution to your decorating problems. Your slipcover can give your tired sofa, loveseat or chair a magazine-worthy makeover. Slipcovers create a clean minimal look: especially if the fabric has a neutral colour such as white.

Also, a white slipcover is another option if you need to stage your home or cottage. But do not want to rent furniture.

Finally, they are budget-friendly, they protect your furniture, and many are machine washable. Feel free to contact me at 416-721-6217 if you have any questions. I will be glad to answer them.