It is not necessary to buy new furniture if the old one is tired. Both the sofa and the chair can be transformed and made fashionable by sewing on them covers from modern fabrics. Covers for furniture can give a certain style, changing the interior of the room and the furniture itself. They are used not only to protect furniture from dust, burnout, dirt, but also as a decoration and transformation of the interior of the room. Sewing covers for upholstered furniture is relevant for both home interior and cottage.
Types of covers
Covers can be free-looking, or falling down, in the form of a drapery, or be dense and practically do not differ from an upholstery of furniture. The technology for sewing furniture covers involves various types of fastening products. Usually removable covers are used on chairs and pouffes and they are fastened with ties, adhesive tapes, zippers and button fasteners. And sometimes they simply put on a chair with a back in the form of a “pillowcase”. Thick covers are pulled over furniture. It can be sofas, couches, armchairs. Sewing covers for upholstered furniture is usually done according to the patterns with a fit in the shape of the furniture.
Related accessories
Quite often, hotel complexes use the service of tailoring covers, decorating the furniture of hotel halls and restaurant halls in accordance with the proposed activities. Actually, changing covers, you can get new furniture in a typical style for the room. Pillows on sofas will look great in the interior, that is, a set of covers can always be supplemented with pillowcases made of fabric of the same kind as the covers. Depending on the design decision, which involves changing the interior of the room completely, you can choose the appropriate fabric for the curtains for the covers.
Fabrics for covers
The fabric for sewing covers can be diverse: thick and light, synthetic and natural, or made of leatherette. It all depends on the chosen style and interior of the room. If you intend to decorate the space of a stylish cafe, club or restaurant, textile tablecloths are used, and tailoring of covers for upholstered furniture is ordered from the same fabric.
Are you planning to decorate a hotel room? In this case, as usual, it is ordered not only sewing covers for upholstered furniture in the room, but also a set of curtains and bedspreads made of soft velor fabrics. Covers for armchairs and chairs can transform not only a cafe and restaurant, but also make a comfortable lounge in the office room. It will look good leather products and dense fabrics.
Textile Ateliers
There is currently no problem sewing covers for upholstered furniture. This is done by the studio for sewing and hauling furniture located in each city. Unlike bedspreads or wraps, the cover on a sofa or chair should completely cover both the armrests and legs. So that the cover does not “ride” on the sofa or chair, it must fit all contours tightly. Usually, for the right size, either an old cover or the furniture itself is used. Without this, you cannot sew a perfectly tailored product, even with accurate measurements.
If the furniture is of a simple pattern, such as sofa-books, sofa-beds or armchair-beds, the master of the studio goes to the place where the furniture is located. He takes measurements, offers fabric options and, if there is still a need, offers to pick up furniture in the studio for a more accurate fitting of the cover. After calculating the price of sewing covers, the atelier gets to work. The cost depends on the complexity of the product, the type of fabric, the number of fittings and furniture delivery (if it was taken from the studio). In this regard, tailoring from an inexpensive fabric of a simple cover to a sofa will cost from 30 $. Usually, its production time is a couple of weeks.
DIY furniture covers
Simple covers can be made by yourself. For example, if you need to update a cover on a kitchen sofa or chair of a simple design, this can be done in one evening. It is necessary to decide what fabric the product will be sewn from, and determine the amount of this fabric. For example, for a chair, you need to measure the total length from the bottom of the front of the chair, through the seat on the back and down the back of the chair. This detail in a cut will be one. The armrest is also measured from the seat to the bottom of the chair. There will be two such details. And finally, the front of the armrests. There will also be two details.
Details in a cut should have allowances for seams of 3-4 cm on each side. Using sewing pins, each piece of cut fabric is attached to the chair with the front side. The next stage is the sweeping of all parts. Then the pins are removed, and the cover is removed from the chair. After stitching the swept away parts with a seam (linen) seam, the cover turns out on the front side. You can also make a stitch at the seams from the front. The resulting cover is put on the chair to determine the length of the product, which then must be trimmed.
This is how you can turn an old chair into an updated interior item. A good cover is that it can be removed and washed. This is salvation if there are small children or animals in the house.