When decorating your space, ask yourself what kind of look and feel you’re ultimately going after. What this translates into is texture, fabric, and color.
Decorating with Texture
What kind of texture works with the feel and sense of comfort you are looking to achieve? With so many choices on the market, you can find slipcovers in colorful washable cotton, durable denim or faux suede, elegant velvet, snuggly chenille, faux leather, jacquard and many more.
Stretch twill fabric is a casual fabric designed to be used in virtually any setting. It is probably the most popular slipcover fabric and can be used to coordinate with virtually any decorating style or color scheme. You can even match the covers with different seat cushion colors for an even more stylish and original look.
Micro suede fabric is gaining fast in popularity, is durable and works in both formal and casual settings. These look best in browns, tans, and stone colors. And if you like the texture and durability of micro suede and want to bring in a bit of color, burgundy may be a good choice for you.
Chenille fabric, offers a very soft, comfortable fabric with an eye-catching traditional design. And if you’re looking for texture that provides a simple elegance that works with almost any décor, you can’t go wrong with a diamond jacquard pattern. Depending on the color, it provides a contemporary look (ivory) or a traditional look (latte).
Decorating with Color
Neutral or basic colors to provide you with a level of easy sophistication. You can accessorize to provide your own distinctive touch – express your personality through accessories for your own personal spin.
Think about how you like to feel in your home and what you presently have. Want to stimulate the senses? Go with bright primary colors in red, blue, or sunny yellows. Contribute to a particular style of décor such as Southwestern, Country, Traditional, Shabby Chic, or Victorian with appropriate slipcover fabrications and design patterns. Or there’s always white paired with black and red for a contemporary look or pair white with navy for a nautical look.
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( 3 / 66 )Color is one of the most important elements in decorating. Thousands of color combinations are possible, but you can use basic color information to create the color scheme best suited for your home and your personal taste.
When you’re decorating with color there are some basic color terms that may come in handy:
•The hue of a color is the basic color. For example, blue is the hue in light blue and dark blue.
• Tone describes the color's density and reflective quality. Tone is important when choosing a color scheme.
•The value of a color describes the amount of white or black in the color. The value ranges from light to dark on a gray scale.
•The saturation of a color refers to its pureness and boldness.
Think about how you like to feel in your home and what you presently have. Want a little pop in the room? Go with a dash of color with reds or blues. Want a calmer, relaxed feel? Go with neutrals. Or there’s always white for a contemporary or even beachy look.
Primary colors – reds, blues, and yellows tend to give an added “pop” to a room. Want a hot, sexy contemporary look? Go with a black and white palate with just the right amount of lipstick red for effect.
A very common train of thought is to start out with a neutral “canvas” with beiges, off-whites, and naturals and browns to have a relaxed, sophisticated comfort, and use that as a base for adding in splashes of color. With browns people tend to add pastels or light blues for dashes of colors that still calm the senses.
You can accessorize to provide your own distinctive touch – express your personality through accessories for your own personal spin. Some people like a low key look, and others seek a bold, fun and color filled scene to heighten the senses. If you have artwork, you may want to bring in colors from your pictures into your textiles and furnishings via pillows, throws or even through a chair and rug.
What we find at Stretch and Cover is that when people are shopping for slipcovers:
•Most people do go with neutrals for a relaxed, sophisticated comfort.
•Burgundies and reds however provide a more contemporary look.
•Denims are gaining resurgence. With denim, you can create either a romantic or casual look to a room depending on the other decorating components.
•Shades of light to darker greens serve a variety of decorating styles. Prints are done in multiple colors in special looks also work and many people and have coordinating pillows for their basic furniture.
But remember, there really are no hard and fast rules that say you must use a specified color scheme.
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( 2.8 / 89 )When you are ready for a fresh new look for your home, consider having your sofa revived with a sofa slipcover. By using a sofa slipcover, you can choose your favorite fabric, change details like the skirt and save a lot of money versus having your sofa re-upholstered or purchasing a new sofa all together. Reality is, unless you purchase a very high priced sofa, the piece you currently own is probably better built then most manufactures are putting out today. By using sofa slipcovers, you get that fresh new look and save a bundle of money.
Sofa slipcovers are amazing now days. The throw cover days served their purpose but thankfully, they are a thing of the past. The sofa slipcovers of now times are not only affordable but offer a variety of styles. Say your current style or theme of your living room is more on the conservative style, but now you feel it is time to add a little flare or even a new classic look to your life. The great thing about sofa slipcovers is you can give new life to your living room easily and quickly for a considerably less amount of money then if you were to replace your sofa or have it re-upholstered. Not only that you can give all the furniture in your living room a face lift using slip covers and still not spend as much as you would replacing one single piece of furniture.
Sofa slipcovers come in a variety of fabrics, textures, and colors but one thing that remains the same throughout is their feel and their fit. Sofa slipcovers have gotten a bad rap in the past in being scratchy, uncomfortable, and never staying in place, which of course was an obstacle to be overcome. Not only have sofa slipcovers put the bad rap to rest, they have surpassed it so far in quality and style one would think your sofa had been re-upholstered. Sofa slipcovers hugs your sofa as if it was a second skin. Now it is not only easy to change the look of a total room with sofa slipcovers but do it with the confidence in knowing that the look you are wanting to achieve is not thrown off by an unsightly outdated slipcover that your always having to readjust.
The exceptional quality and design of sofa slipcovers toped with the superb fabric choices can give not only your sofa new life but also your entire room. Sofa slipcovers are so much more versatile today then in the past. You can change the whole appearance of your sofa. Say you have a two three cushioned sofa, before the throw covers only purpose served was to cover and attempt to protect the upholstery, with sofa slipcovers today, you are not only protecting your upholstery you can keep its original look . Sofa slipcovers today give you the option of individually covering each cushion keeping the sofas original look or the option of making three cushions appear as one long cushion. Whatever look you are trying to achieve with your sofa there is a sofa slipcover that can do that for you. To see an amazing selection of sofa slipcovers and slipcovers for all your furniture needs visit www.stretchandcover.com.
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