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How to Use Slipcovers to Refresh Your Furniture

Easy and inexpensive, slipcovers can instantly transform any room in your home.

A large wooden dining room table with red linens and bright white slipcovers on chairs.
John Ellis

Tight and Tailored

Tailored slipcovers on the dining chairs in this coastal retreat allow the eye to travel to the view outside the doors.

A coastal living room with red accents and neutral slipcovers on the sofa and chairs.
John Ellis

Living Large

Slipcovers on the generously scaled living room furniture invite guests to sit a while, even in wet bathing suits.

A beach house dining room with shabby chic slipcovers in a sea green floral print.
Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn

Beachy Beauty

Chintz slipcovers introduce a casual, comfortable note in this beach house dining room.

A bright white-walled living room with a slipcovered daybed and pair of chairs, all in white.
Nathan Kirkman

Clean and Classic

A matelassé quilt makes an improvised slipcover on this daybed, connecting it to the pair of chairs in this sunny room.

A baby blue and light brown plaid slipcover tied to the headboard and matching the curtains.
Roger Davies

Rest Your Head

A simple slipcover ties the headboard in the bedroom to the curtain fabric, creating a unified scheme.

A cottage living room with all white furniture and slipcover with a sisal rug.
Timothy Street-Porter

Casual Cottage

Mismatched furniture presents a unified front when it’s all slipcovered in white cotton.

Timothy Street-Porter

Wall-to-Wall White

Keeping an all-white scheme, even in the bedrooms, is easy with simple slipcovers for the headboards.

A family sitting on a sofa with a brick red velvet slipcover.
Robbie Caponetto

Rich and Relaxing

A sumptuous velvet slipcover gives new life to an old sofa.

A kitchen island surrounded with four small stools covered in burlap slipcovers.
Tria Giovan

Cool Stools

Burlap skirts on low stools add an unexpected note of character in this kitchen.

A small round-top table in the kitchen covered with a white laminated slipcover.
Tria Giovan

Table for Two

A laminated tablecloth -- tailored like a slipcover protects -- an antique table with style.

A living area with antiques, modern art, and furniture covered in neatral fabric.
Tria Giovan

A Stylish Mix

A mixture of modern art and antique furniture coexists with ease in a room with furniture slipcovered in a neutral linen.

A colorful living area with a bright white slipcovered sofa.
Tria Giovan

Standout Sofa

A spunky palette is easy to embrace with slipcovered furniture. The primary piece of furniture, the sofa, is covered in white to adapt easily to any palette.

An elegant room with drapes and striped furniture.
Tria Giovan

All Around the House

In this house, slipcovers allow the homeowners to completely change the mood and temperature of the house with the seasons.

White slip covered furniture in a library with an exposed beam ceiling.
Tria Giovan

Fresh-Faced

Slipcovers soften the effect of a stone-floored library.

A beach house living room with loose slipcovers and baby blue accents.
Tria Giovan; Designer: Jackye Lanham

Toast to the Tropics

The casual feeling of this beach house living room is reinforced with slipcovers cut a little loose and finished with self-ties.

A cozy living room with red slipcovers on the chairs and a white one on the sofa.
Jean Allsopp

Love That Red

Bring a favorite color into your home through accessories or accents such as pillows and throws. Slipcovers offer a dramatic change. Be sure to prewash your fabric before the slipcovers are made to ensure a perfect fit after laundering.

A dining room with book shelves to the ceiling and bright print slipcovers on the chairs in yellow and white.
Van Chaplin

Take a Seat

Sassy skirted chairs add a bit of whimsy to this serious book-lined dining room.

A breakfast room with wooden table and chairs painted black and neutral slipcovers on the chairs.
Jean Allsopp

Breakfast by the Sea

Slipcovered dining chairs provide the softness of fabric in a breakfast room without curtains.

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