9 Couch Covers for 9 Real-Life Situations

Leaving the dog out has mostly to do with our fears that he could damage our beautiful sofa. It really does not need to be that way. You should not be excluding your loved pet out of your life. There are effective ways to protect your furniture with furniture covers and your sofa with a dog friendly sofa slipcover.

Dog couch covers are made of synthetic fibers, (thick resilient vinyl, polyester, microfibers). Dog couch covers have to pass 5 criteria:

1.) Must protect your couch from physical damages like dog scratches, claw imprints.
2.) Must not catch that smelly dog scent. Your pet couch slipcover has to be resilient to catching odors.
3.) Must prevent dog hairs and potential flees from sticking to the surface. Pretty self-understanding.
4.) Must not absorb fluids like dog drawling,...It is gross but dogs do drawl, and they do it a lot!
5.) Must not look like a "dog blanket" over your sofa. Dog friendly couch cover must be beautiful they must come in colors you wish and patterns you desire. There is no trading efficiency for looks. No way!

Click here for a couple of Dog Couch Covers

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans have developed or were born allergic to one or the other kind of allergen? Your couch is a "perfect place" for allergens like bed bugs and dust. They feel really comfy flourishing on your couch. Sneezing, soar throat, coughing, red irritated eyes... yes, allergens are all over the place.
Even if it may look so, this is not a reason to throw out your old sofa. There are ways to protect your health with applying suitable couch covers. You do not need to sacrifice the looks or the comfort of your couch in order to make it health friendly.

Here are some Affordable couch Slipcovers that will help you at least reduce the negative effects of bed bugs and dust on your health.

Someone told me that leaving a young cat "home alone" is like giving your sofa a Mach 3 shaving - horizontally. Cats like to scratch and sharpen their claws whenever they get to it. A couch, a futon or a sofa are a huge playground for them. Of course you should buy them a "cat tree" but you should make your sofa "cat protected" as well.

Forget about special, extra expensive sofa covers marketed as "pet couch covers". Trust me; there is no couch slipcover out there that would be 100% cat resistant. Those little creatures are just too persistent in their claws sharpening attacks.

There are two sorts of couch covers you should consider. A simple thick woven throw cover, or a vinyl couch cover. You will have to change them often, so pick out the low-price product. On your place I would prefer a slipcover with an easy fit system. Throws usually make cats even nosier. Here are some Pet Sofa Slipcovers for you.

Leather is the most demanding material used on sofa. It needs constant attention, waxing and polishing... But in return you get a 1 class piece of furniture. Sorry to disappoint you, but there are no leather couch covers that would make polishing and waxing your couch totally obsolete. One "friendly" sofa expert in our local sofa shop told me "Miss, putting couch cover over a leather sofa is like putting a saddle on a cow". I was offended, but he was right.

Though it still makes sense to put a couch cover over your leather sofa if you have pets or on special events like parties... When you expect many guests and a wild party, than you should consider a "leather look couch cover". Your visitors actually see a leather sofa, but you know that the real stuff is underneath and well protected from those "party animals".

Check out these Leather Slipcovers

If your man and you sofa have a relationship of a pickle in a jar, than your sofa needs a couch cover that perfectly fits this situation- a heavy duty slipcover. Each home, where sofas or couches are heavily used to sit or sleep on, needs a durable and comfortable couch cover. Yes, it has to be chick and trendy as well.

In this case furniture protection, cosines and style have to meet all in one single slipcover. There is one range of couch slipcovers that you really should consider.

You need something stylish, an easy fit slipcover made of polyester fibers or microfibers. Those are renowned for their durability, are cotton soft and therefore a real blessing to sit on them. They are washable and affordable too.

Here you are, Durable Couch Slipcovers for you

So you have kids, and kids mean: painted walls, ruined carpets and stained sofa. Well the sofa does not need to fall to that same cliché. If you have kids, than your sofa is on a never-ending "iron man" challenge. In terms of couch covers and sofas, kids are as dangerous as cats, cats that eat ketchup and drink soda.

That is why a young family needs a mid price sofa slipcover that will be changed on a 1-2 year bases. The best choice would be a polyester couch cover or a throw; preferably with a color-rich pattern in darker tones (so stains loose themselves within the pattern). Why a "tuck in couch cover" and not a slipcover? Well slipcovers have lots of elastic parts that get damaged when washed frequently. And with kids you have to wash your couch covers frequently.

You may want to check out some Washable Couch Slipcovers

Let us face it, sofas were not meant for parties. Don't believe me? Hmm, so how many sofas do you see in your local disco? Not many. Your couch, whatever material it may be made of, is not born-ready for red vine spills, lipsticks, cigarette accidents or broken glass.

The best thing for a party is to acquire an inexpensive sofa cover set, or a woven throw couch cover. You should search for a cheap thing, one that can be washed on high temperature or even thrown away after that party.

Emergency "party proved" Spill Resilient,Vinyl and Microfibers Couch Covers

I know, women are touchy! Whe have a special kind of tick, it is quite possible that one piece of furniture suddenly becomes ugly as hell. Perhaps it was just our "bad hair day" but heck, that is how we are. The worse thing with our women brain is, that when we say our sofa is ugly in front of our men, there is no way we will change our mind back. And who on earth will take care of design, style and beauty in our home if not we - women?

No matter how beautiful our sofa looks the day we buy it, we all know that this enthusiasm does not last for long. Firs couple of months we admire it, than we get used on it, than we forget about it for a year or two, than it starts to get on our nerves.

The best possible solution is to have 2-3 stylish cotton sofa covers on stock. If you have three than make sure you have one in warm colors (yellow, red, orange, brown,...) and one in cold colors (blue, violet, grey,...). The third one should be a white one. Simple plain cotton throws or slipcovers will do. When you have a stressed week, whey you feel like flipping out, you take you white cotton couch cover and color it, pattern it, ... express your feelings on it and make something completely yours, unique, beautiful and precious out of it.

Here are some fabulous Denim and Cotton couch covers

Well if there was a "one for all" slipcover out there, you would probably already hear for it. Different people live different lifestyles and many of you will find yourself in more than one "real-life situation". What to do in that case? How to pick out the right couch cover if you have pets, kids, love to invite friends over, are allergic to bed bugs and like to spend lots of time on your sofa?

No reason to panic. Producers of Couch Covers, Sofa Slipcovers, Woven Throws and Futon Covers are making all their products suitable for broadest range of lifestyles. Yes, even a vinyl couch cover is better than nothing if you have frequently friends in house or like to organize parties. But simple cotton or a cheap microfiber slipcover is a bit better than a plastic one. What do I mean by "a bit better"?

Let us say you have kids. You could spare 50 USD in 2 years because your couch cover will be better suited for many kids that you have (just as an example).

I propose you take an easy walk through te entire Couch Covers and Sofa Slipcovers collection and get that feeling on what could be a perfect match for you.

Owners of designer sofas are not necessary millionaires.

Nowadays almost anyone can afford to buy a designer sofa. But still, owning a sofa worth couple thousands of dollars comes with certain responsibility and fear of damage. Therefore it is important to take all precautions necessary to preserve your sofa for years to come.

Some people would argue that there is no way to put anything over their bellowed designer sofa.

They argue that it has been designed to be beautiful as it is, thinking that putting anything on top of that sofa would somehow spoil the artistic touch made by the designer.

Well one surely doesn't go out there and buy a designer sofa just for the sake of its functionality.

Putting a couch cover, however beautiful this may be, over a designer sofa is in fact somehow heretic.

You won't find a couch cover or a sofa slipcover that would perfectly fit your designer sofa in a way an average observer wouldn't be able to tell the difference between your sofa with or without a couch cover.

So what to do?

If you own a modern designer sofa and still want to give it an additional protection, than forget about slipcovers or couch covers.

Applying any of them would be the same as if you had a beautiful diamond ring and never showed it to your friends.

So owners of designer sofas should consider acquiring a woven throw or a blanket in colors of the sofa.
These can be used whenever you feel like spending a bit more time on your sofa. They can also be easily folded and put aside when guests are in house or when you just want to admire the visual quality of your designer sofa.

So anything that can be removed in couple of seconds is good when you want to give your designer sofa that additional protective touch.

One more tip for you!
Even if you still consider buying a couch cover for your designer sofa, think twice!

Don't spend your time searching for a suitable one. Couch covers and sofa slipcovers are produced in millions for standard couches and sofas.

Designer sofas are not sold in those numbers and couch covers producers simply do not make products for designer sofas.

Yes, searching for one is more or less a complete waste of time.
Even if you find one that would suit you in terms of color and design, it is almost impossible to find one that would fit in terms of right measures.

Modern couch covers are available in a range of attractive fabrics. The most common among them are stretch cotton, denim, twill, and velvet. These fabrics are both durable, comfortable and they look really great.

Visiting Sofa manufacturers is a way to get an expert advice on the fabrics of your future Slipcover.

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