What's New in Slipcovers?

Let's face it - kids and pets continue to rule our households and ready made slipcovers continue to offer a practical and inexpensive solution to furniture woes. The one-piece, loose fit slipcover is still hanging on in favorite, hard-wearing fabrics like microfiber suede and denim, but the way of the future lies in stretch slipcovers and designs with separate seat cushion covers. Sure Fit, the largest readymade slipcover company in the world, still dominates the market, and is now offering sophisticated options such as stain-release fabrics and reversible covers.


Liana Toscanini is a former Sure Fit executive and now the owner of a home furnishings store in Massachusetts. She's been selling slipcovers one way or another for over twelve years and is pleased with recent innovations. "Stretch covers are great for people who have skinny, square, or odd-shaped furniture," she explains. "The stretchy fabric really molds to the furniture, even around shaped cushions if they're not enormous. The look is tailored, almost like upholstery with no bows or skirts."


Toscanini also praises the separate seat cushion cover concept for eliminating the untucking often found with readymade solutions. There are now several designs to choose from including individual covers for each square seat cushion, one large cover for all seat cushions, and even one large stretchy cover for seats with shaped cushions. To see what Sure Fit has to offer, visit http://www.surefit.com


For additional stretch cover choices in a wider array of fabrics, colors and sizes, visit http://www.stretchandcover.com. And for slipcover tips, visit http://www.lthomegb.com where Toscanini reveals tricks of the trade for everything from getting wrinkles out of slipcovers without ironing to what to do if your furniture arms are too skinny to accommodate slipcovers.


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About the author

Liana Toscanini is a former marketing executive for Sure Fit Slipcovers and the creator of the National Ugly Couch Contest. Three years ago she opened a home furnishings store in Western Massachusetts where she sells readymade slipcovers, linens, rugs and gifts. She's also the inventor of Furniture Falsies, specially designed arm pads used to plump up skinny-armed furniture so slipcovers look and fit better (http://www.furniturefalsies.com) She can be reached by email at xxtramktg@aol.com

This release was published on openPR.