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Couch cover help.

last year

Hello,
I am saving for a new couch but in the meantime I’m hoping to make this one nicer. I unfortunately have baking soda stains on it due to trying to clean up my dog’s activities. The cleaning people said they can’t guarantee they can get the stains off. I am having trouble locating a slip cover or even a blanket. I found this in my closet and they are drapes, ha. I am hoping for any ideas and suggestions. I also bought one cushion cover from Nolan interior. Can get more of these as well. Any ideas are appreciated, thank you!

Comments (21)

  • last year

    Did you have your cleaning people try to clean it? Instead of brown covers get as close to sofa color as possible. Good luck!

  • last year

    Thanks! No I didn’t. Will look at the ones closer to the couch. Thanks!

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    High end designers are constantly wrapping their coffee tables and sofas in a mess of blankets and tapestries and always making it look ok. So I'd try to pull the look off too.

    Rita Konig


    Bunny Williams


    Someone else?


    If the stains are just on the seating part, I'd find a large textile and cover just the seat cushions and not the back cushions. Let just a bit of the edges of the sofa peek out on either so it looks intentional. (Don't wrap each cushion individually, use one large textile to cover all of the seats.)

    Use a blanket, curtain, sheet, tablecloths, drop cloth. Take into account what would look good with the rest of your room, your throw pillows, and the yarn art on your wall. If you use a pattern, make it muted and not ask much of a pop as the fabric you have on your sofa now. Any of these three might work in your space. All table cloths and throws from Ikea, under $20. I think you need two to wrap both sides of the L sectional.







    I recently had to wrap the bottom cushions on my sofa in plastic wrap because they are latex and started off gassing. (Crazy, I know.) I don't have the bandwidth to go sofa shopping now. I have a 20 year old faux mohair blanket from the Ikea as-is bin. It actually looks pretty good tucked in across the seat of my sofa. Throw pillows helps distract.

  • last year

    Thank you so very much!!! I will do! I was having trouble visualizing such creativity. I really appreciate the pictures. Thanks again!

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    Take a pillow (or if the fabric on the pillow zips off, just the cover) to a fabric store. Or try one on-line. There will be a much bigger set of options than trying to find a blanket that matches. If you don't sew, you can buy an iron-on hem tape and just iron in a hem, but fray-check will work, too, as you just need to prevent fraying.


    It often helps a blanket or fabric stay put if you have it under a dowel shoved under the cushions at the corner between the back and the seat.

  • last year

    Thank you! I don’t sew, but will try this!

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    You can take a photo of the label with the cleaning code (often front and center under the cushions), then take the stained cushions to the best local drycleaner. Ask if they can clean the cushions given the cleaning code and your description of how the stains formed (dog mess plus baking soda). If not, ask what upholstery cleaning company they recommend.

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    Oh! Thank you!’

  • PRO
    last year

    Take a ll those mish mash pillows of get a huge throw and lay across the back and over the bad seat and be done until you can get a new sofa or all matching pillow covers with asimlpe patern with the color of the sofa body in the print the gray is all wrong .

  • last year

    Okay, yes, I see. Thank you!

  • last year

    I have been looking for covers (currently using blankets) for a large sectional.


    I saved this website - seems to have a good variety of choices.


    https://nolaninterior.com/

  • last year

    I've had good luck with stretchable cushion covers from Amazon.

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    Thank you!

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    Those nolan covers are not bad looking. Useful link @Jennifer Hogan ! They feel a lot more contemporary than the cover's I have seen on Amazon that have a sort of chenille grandma look.

  • last year

    Yes, one of the pictures I posted with the brown cover is from Nolan. If I order from there again will get the grey

  • PRO
    last year

    You can find easy maintenance fleece plaid blankets to cover the seat cushions. Then find solid colour accent pillow with colours of your sofa and the ones in the new blanket. Spread the blanket across leaving the ends of the cushions showing at each end of the sofa.



  • last year

    That looks great!! Thank you!

  • last year

    How do you like the quality of the cover you ordered from Nolan? Which product did you get?

  • last year

    I like the quality! I got the magic sofa cover. I would recommend measuring. I think it does the job. I’ve decided to get three more in grey until I find a proper throw blanket.

  • last year

    Amazon has lots, and many now are not granny looking. Look under: sofa covers for pets, or even just: sofa covers.

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    Thanks!

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