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Whenever anyone thinks of redecorating their home, they always have to consider whether a new wall color or a new carpet will clash with their expensive furniture. They need wonder no longer as inexpensive slipcovers solve the problem.

Slipcovers are the wave of the future when it comes to your home's furniture. If you're tired of the look of your current furniture, there's no longer any need to get it re-upholstered, or worse, buy a whole new suite. Simply purchase a few matching slipcovers and take a few minutes to put them over your old furniture and voila - a brand new look!

In the beginning, over forty years ago, slipcovers came in two kinds, plastic and vinyl. They looked ugly, but homemakers used them anyway to protect their furniture from the stains not only of spilled drinks and foods but also of pet hair and perspiration.

Nowadays, slipcovers come in much more attractive materials - fabrics of various kinds, and in much more attractive designs, and they are used not only to protect the original fabric of the furniture, but also to simply change the look of the furniture. And since they are slip covers, it's easy to take them off and revert to the original design if you so desire.

So using slipcovers gives you the best of all possible worlds.

A variety of styles

Slipcovers come in a variety of styles and fabrics. Indeed, so popular is the use of slipcovers that it would be highly unlikely for you to not be able to find something you liked, either at your local home furnishing store or on the web.

So if you want to throw a sports-themed party for a bunch of kids, for example, you could purchase slipcovers covered with baseballs or footballs, or athletes, and protect your living room furniture from dropped cake and ice cream at the same time as you give the kids something fun to look at.

By the same token, holiday parties held on the fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas can be celebrated by using slipcovers with the appropriate them.

Fabrics

Just as there are a variety of styles of slipcovers, so there are a variety of fabrics, from the classy leather and damask to cotton, suede and denim. Some slipcovers are designed to fit tightly over the furniture so that the uninitiated would never know that they are slipcovers and not the chair's original upholstery, while others can simply be tied on for easy removal.

Will they fit?

Just as slipcovers come in hundreds of colors and dozens of fabrics, so they come in dozens of sizes to fit chairs, couches, divans, recliners, and ottomans...or any furniture you happen to have. If by chance you can't find something to fit one of your chairs, it's always possible to order custom-made slipcovers.