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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Selecting and Caring For Couch

Can you believe that said sofa is part of an essential element of the interior? Increased demand on the sofa followed by the mushrooming presence of gallery sofa in every corner of the city shows the sofa has become part of people's lifestyles, especially in urban areas. Quite often people are willing to keep changing the couch so as not called obsolete. Like the clothing boutiques, galleries this sofa not only sell, but also provides consultancy services for material selection, maintenance, and repair.

Some people may think all skins are the same, the fact that there are leather seats in different vehicles with leather on the sofa at home. Here are some tips you can use to choose and care for your pet couch:

1. make sure the sofa model according to the theme of the interior or even appropriate denagan architectural style of your home. For example if your house wing ultramodern contemporary or modern minimalist, the selection of sofas with leather and wood composite may not be suitable for your room. Meanwhile, if your house wing of modern art deco, Mediterranean or Victorian can use a large sofa, with a mixture of various ingredients, and glossy dark-colored, giving the impression of luxury.

2. The quality of the material should be your priority, some sofa made with genuine leather or synthetic materials as well. Note also the quality of springs and foam rubber to avoid the sofa you "loose" in the future.

3. Election sofa should be tailored to the function room. For the living room couch should be selected to accommodate the needs of the living room, with 2 or 3 pieces. As for the family room can be chosen in the form of single pieces, over a field, without separators, perfect for creating intimacy between family members.

4. Remaining items can be used to make a slipcover or upholstery. If you are bored with the appearance of your sofa, instead of just its upholstery, so you do not need to buy a new sofa.

5. Size of sofa should be adjusted to the size of the room, if you narrow room just use small-sized sofa / small with a simple form. Because if forced to use a large sofa will reduce the space the other room so that furniture had to be removed.

6. Colors in the sofa, as consideration in choosing a color sofa is: bright colors such as a sofa in white or red is usually quick look dull or dirty, while a dark color like dark brown or black may not be too eye catching, but more obscured than dirt. If you are confused, just take the middle road, choose neutral colors such as cream or ivory.

7. Avoid placing the sofa near the source of light. Sunlight or direct light shining on the sofa will make the color of the sofa quickly become dull. Sunlight and dust and even make a leather sofa upholstery quickly cracked.

8. Especially for sofas that use the skin as a wrapper, you should be diligent in caring for the skin with a special material. If your leather sofa stains, wipe immediately using a soft sponge. You just use regular soap and water and wipe it until the skin surface is completely dry.

9. Three months apply a skin moisturizer on your sofa upholstery section, several shops selling moisturizer and eliminating the impurities that are specific to leather sofas. But keep the intensity of use, all too often use cleaners will also damage the leather sofa sofa, leather sofa as sensitive to chemicals.

10. If your sofa using the wrapping of fabric, try once a week clean your sofa with a vacuum cleaner. This will help reduce the dust content on your couch.

2 comments:

  1. hah.. good tips and trick. vacum cleaner really help for sofa wrapper made fro fabric. For something from plastict... I use to wipe it with dump cloth...

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