Slip Covers: The Benefits of Buying and Using Slip Covers

Written by on June 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

slip coversAre you saving up your budget to buy new furniture?  Are you waiting for the next big holiday to buy some on sale?  If your furniture is structurally still in good condition, but its fabric is looking old or worn, you don’t need to replace it.  You can avoid the high cost of furniture and buy inexpensive slip covers for your current furniture instead.  You can get just the lift you need for your furniture without the drag on your wallet.

New furniture is simply expensive, and getting more and more so each year.  Major furniture stores have been going out of business, making the remaining stores have less competition.  They know it and so would you if you try to buy from them.  In addition, furniture made today typically isn’t made with the same craftsmanship that furniture years ago was made with, so you won’t even be getting as good a deal now.

Another option to refresh your furniture is sending it away to be re-upholstered.  This option is cheaper than getting new furniture, but still not as inexpensive as slip covers.  It’s also a big hassle, because you’ll need to haul your furniture to the re-upholstery shop and then leave it there for as long as it takes.  So you’re stuck with a living room with no furniture for who knows how long.

Slip covers involve none of that hassle.  Once you’re measured your furniture, you simply go shopping.  You can go to local stores or stay at home and search the vast array of the internet for what you want.  You can pick the exact fabric and design you want.  Your slip cover will also generally last longer than the original fabric because you can specifically choose a more durable fabric.

If you’re furniture is looking a little old, it’s time to look into getting slip covers.  You’ll think you have a whole new living room.

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Use a Recliner Slip Cover to Update Your Favorite Chair

Written by on May 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

recliner slip coverWhen it comes to furniture, the recliner is your faithful friend.  It’s always ready to help you relax after a hard day.  But if you’ve had your recliner for years and years, it’s probably looking pretty worn and out of style.  You may already be dreading the day when you will have to replace it, but you shouldn’t think this is the only option.  A recliner slip cover can bring new life to a great piece of furniture, and will ensure that you will be enjoying your trusty old recliner for years to come.

A good recliner is hard to find, especially one that is really comfortable for you and can just make the stress of the day melt away.  You shouldn’t have to try to find a replacement for such a valuable piece of furniture.

With a recliner slip cover, you can get a fabric that will improve your recliner tenfold.  First of all, if you didn’t start with a durable and stain resistant fabric, you can change that by making those things part of your design.  Second, you can get a fabric that fits your current decor.  Chances are that you’ve changed the look of your living room many times since you got your old recliner.  Or maybe you originally picked one that was more comfortable than stylish.  Now you can get an up-to-date, exciting look for your recliner through a new recliner slip cover.

With a recliner slip cover, you will also have more control over how to clean your recliner.  You can choose a fabric that is machine washable and do the cleaning yourself – effectively and in the comfort of your own home.  Or you can choose a fabric such as linen, which must be dry cleaned and let professional take care of any spills or messes.

A recliner slip cover is the ticket to a much-needed refresh of your living room.  Check them out today.

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Sectional Couch Slipcovers Protect Your Furniture Investment

Written by on May 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

sectional sofa slip coverIf you’ve recently bought a sectional couch set, it was probably because you needed extra seating because you have children or like to entertain lots of guests.  What you may not realize is that both groups are messy.  Children, well, that’s obvious.  Guests tend to be messy because they may be a bit tipsy or don’t respect your property as much as you do.  Either way, you will need a defense against spills and messes. Sectional couch slipcovers are just what you need.

When you’ve made a serious investment, you want to have some guarantee that it will hold its value.  A sectional couch, usually running at least a thousand dollars in price, is just that sort of investment.  Unlike a car, you can’t buy insurance against spills; you will have to take concrete action to protect your sectional from foods and liquids. Sectional couch slipcovers will be your barrier against stains on your sectional.

You will want to make sure your sectional couch slipcovers are functional, however.  For example, you will want to make sure you can throw the individual section into your washing machine and get tough stains out.  You wouldn’t want to have to dry clean the covers every time there was a spill.  Make sure when you are picking a fabric that it will be machine washable.  Also, if wrinkles bother you, you may want to consider a wrinkle resistant material such as polyester.

For the really rambunctious family, scotchguard is a great addition to sectional couch slipcovers to keep you from going crazy over spills.  Liquids will just roll off a material that has been treated with scotchguard, which will greatly reduce the number of times you need to wash your slipcover.

Sectional couch slipcovers can be a great way to preserve some of your sanity in a hectic, messy house.  You can hide old stains on your sectional and wash away new ones.

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Dining Chair Slipcovers Renew the Whole Dining Room

Written by on April 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

dining chair slip covers e1308439872617Dining room sets can be expensive.  Re-upholstering the chairs can be almost as bad.  A cheaper solution can be to buy slip covers instead, especially if the wood is in good condition or the set is a family heirloom or antique.  Dining chair slipcovers can also be a convenient way to have some fun with your old dining room set.  With dining chair slipcovers, before you know it, you’ll be enjoying your dining room set again like it’s brand new.

If your dining room set is in otherwise good condition, adding slip covers for the seats will reinvigorate your set.  To replace or re-upholster an otherwise good condition set simply doesn’t make financial sense.  The new material of the dining chair slipcovers are much cheaper alternative.

Dining chair slipcovers for dining room sets also make cleaning up easier.  When a chair doesn’t have a slip cover, you’re forced to try to scrub the stain out or resign yourself to it being there forever.  With a slip cover, however, you can just throw it in the wash and, with a little stain removing powder, the blemish is sure to come out.  In addition, slip covers for seats are small enough to fit in any washing machine, so you won’t have to worry about the hassle of going to a laundromat.

Finally, dining chair slipcovers can inject a little bit of fun into your dining room.  Because they’re cheap enough, you can purchase a few sets and change them each season or depending on the time of day that you’re hosting company.  Or maybe you would want different colors or patterns for particular holidays.  With slip covers, you can really get creative.

With slip covers for the chairs, never before has revitalizing your dining room been so easy or affordable!

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Slipcovers for Pet Owners Let You and Your Pets Enjoy the Furniture

Written by on April 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

pet slip covers e1308440087372Do you have a pet that just won’t stay off the couch?  You’d love to take away this annoying habit, but nothing seems to be working and discipline is lost on your furry friend.  As a result, your couches and chairs are showing more wear and smelling more like pet than you’d like to admit.  In this case, the perfect solution for your issues are slip covers for your furniture.  Slip covers will make clean-up of pet hair and accidents easier and finally make removing pet smells possible.

All pets have accidents on occasion.  Maybe it ate something that didn’t agree with it, or maybe you got home later than usual.  It’s an unfortunate truth, but after owning a pet for a while, it’s going to happen to you.  A slip cover will offer you relatively easy clean-up of any messes, since you can remove the cover and wash it as necessary.

Unless you have a hairless breed, pet hair is a constant annoyance to pet owners.  Some people try to tackle the problem with lint rollers or vacuum attachments.  Both of these solutions are tedious, though.  A better way would be to use a slip cover and, whenever the pet hair builds up, to remove the cover and shake it outside in the breeze.  If that is not enough, you can put it through your washing machine and dryer to remove all the hair.

Finally, you always know that someone has a pet because their furniture begins to smell, given enough time.  People try to eliminate the smell buy spraying air fresheners on their furniture, but this masks the smell.  The only way to truly take away the smell is to wash the material, and since couches can’t be laundered, that poses a problem.  Detachable slip covers, however, don’t have that problem, and can be washed as many times as you please, so they can always smell fresh and new.

Owning a pet doesn’t mean that you have to have stained or smelly furniture.  If you add slip-covers to the furniture pieces which your pets walk or sit on, you will be back to enjoying your furniture instead of wishing you didn’t have a pet.

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