How to Match Sofa Covers with Your Home Décor — Simple Tips That Work Every Time
In Indian households, a sofa is the centrepiece of most living rooms. Whether you’re living in a city, town or village, a sofa is common.
Choosing the right sofa cover can therefore change the entire look and décor of your sitting area, living room or even the entire house.
Whether you’re aiming for a cosy or vibrant, or sophisticated ambience for your living room, buying the best sofa cover can ensure your sofa blends seamlessly into the overall décor.
All this might sound easy. But trust me, it isn’t really as simple and straightforward as I may sound. As a matter of fact, matching a sofa cover with your home décor in Indian households can prove pretty complicated.
That’s because in India, we have different kinds of sofa covers, each unique in its way, crafted from different fabrics or materials, made for various purposes and also, different décor needs.
Therefore, in this article, I will provide some simple tips that work every time if you wish to match a sofa cover with your home décor.
Reasons to Match Sofa Cover with Home Décor
To give you a broader picture, matching your sofa cover with home décor isn’t merely about the aesthetics. As a matter of fact, doing so enhances the overall functionality and ambience of your sitting area, living room and the overall home décor.
Here are some strong reasons to match sofa covers with your overall home décor.
Creates a Cohesive, All-Inclusive and Purposeful Look
When you match sofa covers with the home décor, it creates an overall cohesive and all-inclusive yet purposeful look for the sitting area. In this sense, your home looks well planned, and reflects that ample thought and design aesthetics went into the overall décor.
That it was not haphazardly decorated or done in haste, or even assembled without any taste. In brief, your home and sofa reflect the overall personality of your household.
Improves Mood and Atmosphere
It’s a well-known fact that colours have an impact on our moods. In a diverse country like India, we associate different colours with spiritual meanings, too. Colours and textures influence feelings, which in turn translate into emotions.
For example, the colour white signifies cleanliness and cool, while red stands for action and youth, love or even violence. Similarly, the colour purple is associated with wealth and affluence, while pink is often considered a feminine colour but one that also stands for prosperity and good health.
Therefore, matching your sofa cover with home décor can lend a mood and atmosphere to your home.
Adds Visual Effects
When you match sofa covers with the overall home décor, it provides a superb visual effect to both your family and visitors. That’s because the house looks well-planned and uniform instead of disorganised and haphazard.
Thoughtfully chosen colours, patterns and textures prevent your space from looking dull and uninviting.
A proper match of sofa cover and home décor could actually make your home, or at least the living area, look more spacious than its actual size due to visual effects. At modern Indian homes where space is a constraint, such visual effects can have an amazing effect.
Seasonal Adaptability
In simple words, sofa covers can be changed quickly, say within 10 minutes or even less. In fact, any adult at home can quickly fix or change a sofa cover. In India, we have three main seasons and four in some regions.
Add to these our countless Indian festivals and special occasions of the family. A sofa cover can be changed to reflect the season, a festival or a celebration.
Since sofa covers are fairly inexpensive, or rather, reasonably priced, you can easily afford more than one, from a reputable company. This can help your entire house reflect the seasons or festive mood simply by switching the sofa cover.
Concealing Flaws
And finally, using a sofa cover can conceal flaws such as stains, tears and cuts on the original upholstery of your sofa. It can protect the sofa against dust, pet dander and fur and other such elements.
This, in turn, reflects on your overall household because the sofa is a centrepiece and usually, the first thing at your home observed by guests and visitors.
A well decorated sofa that matches home décor imparts a strong impression that your entire home is neat, tidy and well organized, free of dust and sparkling clean. It creates a sense of home being well-planned and well-maintained.
Surely, these points are appealing enough to encourage you to match sofa covers with home décor. Here are some simple tips that could help you seamlessly match your sofa covers with home décor and create the desired aesthetics.
How to Match Sofa Covers with Your Home Décor
As you can see from the above, matching a sofa cover with home décor isn’t as easy as it might seem. Having said that, it’s also not very difficult. All it needs is some understanding of your home décor and finding the right sofa cover that serves this purpose well.
The first and most important step is to understand your home décor or the one you’re trying to create. In India, homes decors reflect various local and international styles.
Here are some of the commonest home decor in India.
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Bollywood: The ones that reflect décor from a certain movie or scene, or a star’s home.
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Minimalist: The latest trend in decorating homes with minimum furnishings and using the simplest, environment friendly stuff.
- Ethnic: All of us Indians have our native culture. Some of us love to decorate our homes in a manner that reflects our native culture despite staying far away in large cities.
- Modern: A lot of Indian homes are decorated in a modern style, meaning they reflect the latest trends in practically everything. The paints and shades would seem straight out of ads, and gadgets would be the latest too, with modern paintings and other adornments. In such cases, the sofa would also be a contemporary type.
- Green or Environment Friendly: This is a developing home décor trend in India as environmental awareness grows, especially among millennials and Gen-X folk. They decorate homes with plants and natural stuff such as mud pots, rattan or light wooden furniture and adornments such as wall hangings made of straw, leaves and other natural stuff.
Additionally, we have the latest “Industrial” type of home décor that some people love. This home décor became very popular in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic when people were forced indoors and working from home gained immense traction.
This home décor is a blend of the professional ambience of offices and the lighter, relaxed one of our homes. The trend continues, though the pandemic has faded into the annals of history.
Then we also have what I call freestyle. This is a rather disjointed home décor when people simply behave on impulse without bothering to match. The shades of their walls have one colour while the curtains have another, and the floor tiling, the third.
But this isn’t a disaster, as you might believe. With some proper thought, the freestyle or disjointed home décor can actually be converted to something amazing, simply by finding and using superb sofa covers that unite all the otherwise independent elements, weaving them into a unified pattern.
1. Color Matching for Best Effects
Once you’re aware of your home décor style, the next thing is to find stuff in matching colours. Here, you can use something widely known as the 60-30-10 rule.
In this, 60 stands for the percentage of the main colour or shade of your home décor, which means the walls of your living room. The 30 signifies secondary colours in the living room, such as those of rugs, carpets, flooring and wall hangings, to name a few.
The 10 stands for accent colours or those that help highlight the main colour superbly and contrast with the secondary one.
Here, you could use soft pastel shades that match the wall colour and contrast with the secondary shades. For example, if your walls are light blue and the flooring is the common grey, using dark or navy-blue sofa covers or even red, purple tones can effectively match everything.
In some cases, where wall shades are darker but the floor is light, you can switch to contrasting shades such as black, grey or even yellow. One more thing is using patterns and designs. Often, these can blend effectively with the wall and floor shades.
2. Matching Fabrics and Textures
You can also tap into the fabrics used for sofa covers and their texture to match your home décor. For example, a velvet sofa cover can be used to create an ambience of luxury if you use one of the right, matching colours.
For centuries, velvet has been used as a fabric for higher levels of comfort. If you prefer a more practical look for your home décor and sofa, consider using polyester-cotton blend sofa covers available in block colours, patterns and designs.
The patterns and designs can match the wall and floor colours while complementing curtains and any other furnishings in your home.
Try using Jacquard sofa covers if your living room is minimalist in style and you wish to add some “bulk”. Jacquard is a superb, environmentally friendly fabric that blends easily with your home décor, provided you choose the right pattern or shade for your sofa cover.
Jacquard sofa covers also give that warm and cosy feel, which can sharply contrast the stark minimalist home décor and highlight it adequately. For Bollywood style evergreen home decor, I would suggest matching with Turkish bubble sofa covers. That’s because these kinds of sofa covers have both a rich look and feel. They’re available in a wide selection of shades.
In Conclusion
While using your own creativity is the best way to match a sofa cover with home décor, I also recommend looking around to find what best suits your needs for this purpose. As a matter of fact, the best thing is to have more than one sofa cover for home. That way, you can create various kinds of home décor by simply using matching sofa covers.