Maintaining furniture can be a tough task in homes, hotels, and a variety of other settings. Homeowners and businesses are, therefore, often keen to seek solutions that can help them keep their furniture in top condition. You gain bonus points too if the solution that you recommend is effective and affordable.
Furniture coverings fulfil these needs with precision. They protect furniture and provide great aesthetic appeal but are still fairly affordable.
In today’s blog, we highlight why and how you can use them to spruce up your client’s spaces while guaranteeing the much-needed protective cover.
Furniture Coverings: Highlights
Furniture coverings are fabrics designed to drape furniture. Most of them are fairly elastic which enables them to cover furniture just like the original upholstery.
Manufacturers design furniture coverings in different styles to suit different types and sizes of furniture. They are available in a variety of colors, prints, and fabrics too.
Enhancing Spaces Using Furniture Coverings
Furniture coverings offer lots of flexibility. You can thus use them to enhance your clients’ spaces in different ways such as:
Improving the Color in a Space
Furniture is a focal point in most spaces like living rooms, waiting rooms, or entertainment lounges. The color of furniture, therefore, has a substantial impact on a room.
You can use this information and furniture coverings to transform the color and mood of a space.
For example, if you would like to brighten up a space, you can select bright furniture coverings for key pieces of furniture. It will instantly brighten up the room and you can find ways to balance your color choices so that they create a harmonious inviting room.
Alternatively, you can use contrasting colors where some furniture coverings are bright while others are neutral but bold. It easily shifts a room from ordinary or dull to charming and interesting.
Creating Special Themes
Some events or celebrations call for a change in decor to bring out the theme of the event. Think Halloween, Christmas, or St. Patrick’s Day.
Furniture coverings can come in handy for such themes in two ways. The first option is to choose furniture covering colors that align with the celebration. You can then use this as a take-off point to decorate the rest of the space and make the theme a reality.
On the other hand, you can take a more direct approach and get custom furniture coverings designed for the theme. For instance, you can get Christmas-themed coverings with elves, reindeer, Christmas trees, and jingle bells printed on them.
Changing Texture
It is easy to overlook the role that texture plays in decor but it is quite significant. Here is a quick test for context. Picture a leather set of sofas and velvet fabric sofas. Which of them makes you think of a homely inviting space?
Using furniture coverings with plush fabrics can make a space feel more inviting and less formal. However, if you are working towards a more formal or utilitarian environment, leather furniture coverings may work better.
Both perspectives come in handy when you need to change the feel of a room.
Protecting Furniture Using Furniture Coverings
Furniture coverings protect the original fabric on a piece of furniture from different types of damage. They include:
Sun Damage
The sun emits ultraviolet rays which cause fabrics to fade either due to long-term or intense exposure. This, for instance, may be why you may notice that furniture pieces in the direct line of windows may begin to discolor after a while.
Furniture coverings can serve as a protective layer against such damage. Bright colors like white can work particularly well as they reflect the sun away from furniture. Such protection can be effective for outdoor furniture too as it bears the brunt of the sun even more than indoor furniture.
Stains
Draping furniture with furniture coverings prevents stains from spilled drinks or food and other messes from ruining your furniture’s fabric. Some furniture coverings are also made of stain-resistant materials that either do not stain easily or are easy to wash off.
Wear and Tear
We all have a favorite seat in our homes that we either enjoy more than others or sit on just out of habit. Such frequent use causes wear and tear on furniture fabrics that can eventually begin to look unsightly.
Furniture covers can help prevent this. Your clients can choose to use them full-time or alternate between the original furniture fabric and covers from time to time to slow the rate of wear and tear.
Pet Damage
Cat claws and dog paws can sometimes be quite abrasive and cause tears or scratches on furniture. They also present other challenges like an accumulation of fur and dirt marks if they hop onto furniture from outdoor escapades.
Over time, a mix of these factors can get quite unsightly. Particularly because it may not be possible to professionally clean furniture any time there is a mess.
Furniture coverings protect sofas and other kinds of furniture from such damage. They are also easy to take off and launder as often as you need to. This will reduce exposure to allergens and keep any space looking pristine and smelling fresh.
How to Choose the Right Furniture Coverings for a Space
Assess the Needs
Begin by assessing what your client needs in the space. Do they need it to be more inviting, pet-friendly, or easier to clean? The answers here will guide you in selecting the right furniture coverings to meet those needs.
Prioritize Quality
Prioritize furniture coverings made using quality durable materials. Inspect the stitching to ensure seams will not come apart easily. Machine-washable fabrics are a significant advantage as well.
Seek the Right Fit
A proper furniture cover should fit so well that it looks like the original fabric of the furniture. This is only possible if the fit is correct and the design is suitable for that specific style of furniture.
Conclusion
Enhancing the look and feel of a space significantly improves its utility and how people experience it. Versatile and value-for-money solutions like furniture coverings are thus worth exploring as you work on different decor or interior design projects.
