Cover the sofa

Sofa covers for the living room

Sometimes, to avoid having to go to dyeworks and to use the washing machine all the time, covering the sofa becomes a necessity and creativity can help, maybe not to standarddize a piece of design with a sofa cover among the most classic.

I hated them. I just could not see them. I did not understand why it was necessary to cover those beautiful sofas with all those sheets, those stretch fabrics, which, although comfortable, make the couch anonymous, when it is often the highlight of all the furniture in the living room. Yet there is a reason. Which is not a small one.

Creative diy sofa covers

If you have pets at home, you know that unless you have imposed strict rules from the beginning, sofas and armchairs are the realm of dogs and cats. Sleepy afternoons curled up into a ball on the pillows, but not only. And the hairs reign.

But not only. Even those who have small children, can understand me. Markers, pencils, cookies... you can parry almost everything, but sometimes the stain comes, and if the fabric is one of those precious, often it is not so simple to clean and remove the stains, and you still have the risk to remain with marks and damaged tissues.

In my case, the hate has turned into curiosity, when I had to deal with the everuday life. But if you also want to stand out and have a little manual ability, you can get some interesting alternative sofa covers in a short time.

If you have a sofa with a light color base, basically cream, you can use wool blankets, such as the Ursula kind from Ikea, with cable knit.

Lying with the edges to fall, perhaps associated with more blankets, with some changes, it turns in a nice mega winter sweater for the sofa: some giant buttons, perhaps of contrasting color, in a strategic point and the game is done.

Somebody will turn up his nose because of the color: white on white. But Ursula is machine washable at 40 degrees and you can also put it in the dryer machine, as long as at low temperatures. These are its strengths. And if you get tired of the effect, just take it off or just change the color of buttons.

Another interesting system to cover the sofa, is to use an old bedspreads, always in light shades, to be fixed later, if desired, with needle and thread on the arms, once lying in the correct position. In this way the cover will not move and the initial aesthetics remain fixed in time. A little more complicated, in this case, when you want to wash it, as the entire textile structure must be disassembled.

Low cost sofa covers

If you already have at home a sofa from Ikea that you are tired of, the change of look is easily accomplished with sofa covers by Bemz, the brand created by Lesley Pennington few years ago and specialized in textile relooking for the complements of the famous low cost Swedish brand. Available for many of the models in the catalogue, these sofa covers are now very common and are characterized by color, fantasy and elegance.

Fine for example, collections Multifit, or a series of interesting and special sofa covers, designed also for the more classic models of armchairs or sofas, of 1, 2 or 3 places.

But even the Basiqs, which recently came out on the market: these are fabrics to cover the sofas, natural and simple, even for models which are now out of production, which have bindings to be fixed on the sofa and have lower prices, almost like standard fabrics, but with a greater sobriety.

And so, even the emptiest living room will assume a completely different look, more modern, more stylish, it is your call, by choosing among more than 180 different colors and different fabrics, all machine washable.

Now in the web site, and with the same style, is also available an area for chairs and another one dedicated to beds and to the renewal of textile lining, even where, in reality, it was not thought of.

Imaginative and chic sofa covers

Finally, if you like colors and patterned fabrics, and you want a sofa cover not only to prevent stains, I point out for you the sofa covers or bedspreads by Lisa Corti , which are means of furnishing, with particular layouts, different depending on the size you need. They are available in two weights, in cotton and muslin, they are manufactured in India and printed by hand, with ancient methods.

Very elegant and at the same time sunny, for example, Arabesque Blue, with central flowers and geometric guilloche pattern at the edges.

Or Big Ceck Turquoise, with squared drawings in the middle and flowers all around. Like the others, even Arabesque Blue and Big Ceck are easily washable in the washing machine at 30 ?.