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A SPRING REFRESH FOR OUR SLIPCOVERED SOFA WITH COMFORT WORKS
May 21, 2020
The secret? A slipcover.
I have been a lover of slipcovers throughout all the years of owning my home. They've come a long way & fit custom to your sofa! You wouldn't even be able to tell it was a slipcover unless you flipped the cushion to find the zipper.
My sofa is the IKEA Vimle- a modular, slipcovered sofa that can be customized to your desired layout. IKEA only offers 6 different colors (3 dark, 2 beige and a patterned red) which isn't nearly enough options for what I'm trying to achieve. I own the Gunnared Beige but have always wanted that crisp, clean white sofa.
That's when I discovered Comfort Works.
Comfort Works is a company that handmakes custom slipcovers to so many popular branded sofas. If you don't see your brand on their website, they have a process to figure out your measurements & will give you instructions to do so! They offer an impressive amount of colors & fabric choices and they'll send you fabric samples to test out.
If you visit Comfort Work's website, you'll notice they list all of the fabric details & care guide instructions. You can add on a smart option to convert your sofa into a charging station with hidden, built-in USB ports! You'll also find that they don't make slipcovers for just sofas. They make them for dining chairs, ottomans and even arm rest protectors! Genius.
Their new Pure Linen Collection
caught my interest for a spring/summer vibe. I've been adding lots of warm shades to my home, so it was a tough decision whether I should go with the Pure Linen Natural or the Pure Linen White. Because my original sofa covers were beige already, I decided to switch it up and go all white! I've dreamt of having that Restoration Hardware Cloud sofa look without the insane RH price.
The Pure Linen White is a beautiful, soft white shade. Their Madison White in cotton is a more stark white (shown in the first fabric sample photo on the right end).
Installation
for the covers are pretty simple.
Our sofa is massive & takes about 30 minutes to take apart everything to change the entire base frame covers. Usually, when we wash our covers (about once a month), we only wash the seat and back cushions.
That takes less than 5 minutes to unzip all of them.
Each cover comes with a helpful tag with a description of where it belongs to.
Here's an installation video to give you an idea of what it looked like..
Here's a fun fact: we actually had to do this twice in one week because the first time we filmed it.. we accidentally filmed it on slow-mo. Haha! Thankful for my super patient, sweet fiancé for reassuring me that it was no problem to (take off the covers, disassemble the sofa, put the original cushions back on and start filming to install the new covers on once more) basically, do it all over again.
..from beige to bright
I'm already thinking about what type of covers to choose for another sofa that I own. They're just that good. Before we got these covers on, we had just got done remodeling our family playroom (see here). I spent most of my days in that room enjoying our labor of love. Now that my sofa feels brand new again, I can't choose which room I spend my time in. I literally haul my things back and forth all day between both rooms haha!
*This post has been sponsored by Comfort Works. All opinions, ideas & content are completely my own.. as I will only recommend products that I truly love & use personally!
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