Make your sofa look new by changing these three things

Colour

When your sofa begins to wear and tear, refurbishing can be a quick solution to giving your sofa a new lease of life.

Colour is key as it will determine the mood and ambience of your living or working space.

Homes and lounges can have the warmer spectrum colours such as oranges and reds as they are inviting. But sofas do not come cheap and because the investment can be heavy – you will need to take the time to select the right fabric with the right feel for the right purpose. Office settings such as banks and financial institutions do well with formal colours such as blues or greens. You could also match the reception sofa to the corporate brand colours.

Consider the users

If you have a house full of children and/or pets, then you want to use durable absorbent fabric that do not show stains with every tiny spill. Ask your supplier for stain resistant fabric to absorb light liquid stains. It helps to put your fan hat on so that selecting the challenge of choosing upholstery does not get to you.

Durabilty is key so the heavier the fabric the better it is for homes with heavy users as it will wear well. If you have a large sofa, then you may want to pick a more neutral colour which will not limit you when associating or selecting accessorising, then use colour on the one or two-seater sofas.

Add interest to the smaller sofas by adding pattern and texture. Alternatively, if you want to use the large sofa to anchor your colour by using a solid colour like red, purple or blue and then using lighter hues on the one seater sofas.

Cost of fabric

The worst thing that can happen to you is to buy a so called ‘deal’ on sofa fabric only to walk into another shop and find it at half price.

Once you select a fabric that you like, walk around and window shop from several suppliers till you get the best priced fabric that will give you value for money.

Your next careful consideration is the fundi who will do the work. You don’t want to buy an expensive fabric then use a fundi who ruins it.

Take time to invest carefully in your fabric and your ‘fundi’ and you will have a sofa that will enjoy its lease of durable fabric and good workman ship.