| Have you ever watched "Trading Spaces" the | | | | think it was for the benefit of the viewers). That in |
| television show? Remember how it was such a hot | | | | some cases was more expensive than getting a |
| show with all those famous interior designers like | | | | whole new couch. In the long run the ended up |
| Vern Kip. Well my wife and I used to sit and watch it | | | | making a slipcover in the perfect cover. Although my |
| together, that is when it was so popular. Anyway | | | | wife and I pretend to be savvy in the designing of |
| that is the first time I heard the word slipcover. And | | | | our home neither of us can remotely use a sewing |
| even saw them use the slipcover to refresh furniture | | | | machine well enough to fit our couch the way we |
| and give a brighter out look. | | | | wanted. |
| Well just like the craze of "Trading Spaces" my wife | | | | We were very sketched out having seen some |
| and I have been on redesigning kicks and home | | | | poorly fit slipcovers in the past, but we knew what |
| improvement. Well on our last redesign we were | | | | we wanted and found a company through this |
| having a very difficult time with our budget. We had | | | | website. We didn't want one of those slip covers |
| taken on a large project and our budget was very | | | | that just fits over the whole couch where you have |
| thin and we were looking at needing a new couch. | | | | to continually tuck and pull it to make it look right. |
| This was something that both my wife and I wanted. | | | | We wanted something made for our couch. We |
| In our effort looking for a new couch that would fit | | | | found a maker who you send the measurements and |
| our needs we would find one that we liked but price | | | | they make it to your specifications. Not only that but |
| was an issue. Then we would go searching and find | | | | they employed some techniques that helped to |
| another but the color wouldn't work. When we | | | | fasten the cover in place without compromising the |
| happened to find one that the color was right it was | | | | aesthetic aspect. They even made individual covers |
| like sitting on a rock. We even resorted to going to | | | | for each cushion, taking our slipcover to new heights. |
| an interior designer friend and she couldn't do | | | | All in all I still have my couch that is perfectly broken |
| anything to help us. We were so discouraged till one | | | | in for Monday night football and comfy enough to |
| night we were watching TV in bed. What do you | | | | snuggle with the wife and enjoy "Trading Spaces" |
| know we were looking for some ideas from an old | | | | too. |
| episode of our favorite show "Trading Spaces" that | | | | Don't give up you can find any type or color of |
| is when it dawned on us. | | | | slipcover and we have even taken it to a different |
| In all of our efforts in searching out our dream couch | | | | level in sending our own material to have it made. |
| set we were looking for our couch we had now just | | | | Thank goodness for slipcovers is all I think when my |
| spruced up a bit and in the right color. And in this | | | | wife and I go for a ride on my new Harley Davidson |
| episode they had already spent most of their budget | | | | which were have been able to afford due fully in part |
| and needed a solution to their issue of fixing up the | | | | to the money we have saved keeping our furniture |
| existing furniture. Now don't ask me why but they | | | | and getting slipcovers. Happy covering! |
| even looked into reupholstering the existing couch (I | | | | |