Use Chair Slipcovers to Accentuate Your Living Space

Using chair slipcovers is a great way to change how your chairs look without going over-budget. If you’ve just redecorated your room and just discovered that your chairs no longer match the room motif, you no longer have to worry. The answer to your problems is slipcovers.

How to choose the right slipcover

Before jumping in and buying a slipcover, there are still a few things that you must consider.

1. What type of design do you want in your slipcover? – While choosing a slipcover you will be faced with a choice of which style or design do you want this maybe solid or patterned? Often, people think that solid is boring. On the contrary, this will give your chairs a nice blend when placed together with the other furniture. This is because some patterns and prints tend to overwhelm the entire look of the room and make the furniture look more out of place.

But, if you can’t make up your mind, then you can try out using solid designs on the armrests of chairs and patterns on the seat cushions. This will dramatically change how the seat will look. But, beautiful when choosing combinations and be sure that they match perfectly with each other.

2. What type of fabric do you want in your slipcover? – Fabric is the number one concern for most people. The main reason is that often, people dislike certain fabrics more than others. While sometimes, it is more appropriate to choose one fabric over another in terms of matching the furniture to its surroundings.

Because chairs get abused regularly, it is ideal to use woven fabric such as twill, canvass or denim. Although most people opt for cotton, it has the properties of becoming easily wrinkled as compared with synthetic fabrics. At present, there are now fabrics that are made out of a combination of natural and synthetic fibers. This offers the best resistance to dirt and wear. But, you must be ready to pay a little extra.

Linen is a good fabric to use, but the problem is that it tends to get wrinkled easily and requires a lot of maintenance. Not to mention that as it gets seated upon, it tends to stretch and eventually lose its shape. As for silk, this is just magnificent to look at. The problem is that it shouldn’t be placed in a chair that receives a lot of strain since it is rather delicate.

Chair slipcovers are excellent accents to your furniture. Whether you chose to use dark prints or striped white linen, you can never go wrong. But always assess first if the slipcover will be subject to abuse or just decorations.