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Sofas are usually the centerpiece of most living rooms and waiting rooms around the world. That’s where guests sit when they’re visiting our home or office. All of us, including members of our household also lounge on a sofa whenever they’re free or for watching TV. Some of us also use a sofa for other important purposes such as having a meal or sleeping.

Visitors to any office can be easily accommodated on a sofa and it’s common to find one in the cabins of top executives of small to large businesses.

Therefore, you could rightly say that a sofa is the most useful piece of furniture at home and office. Unfortunately, it could also be the most overused piece of furniture. And often, the most neglected one too.

Reasons Why We Neglect Sofas?

Let’s understand reasons for neglecting our sofas, regardless whether they’re at home or office. What causes us to ignore this important piece of furniture that inadvertently costs a small fortune? And why do we neglect this centerpiece of our living room or visitor’s room and office?

Actually, there’re several reasons. The first and foremost reason is that we often don’t know how to style and give a makeover to a sofa. We imagine that once it’s bought and placed at home or office, it would continue to serve us while appearing spanking new over a period of time.

This ignorance causes us to ignore a sofa. Eventually and over a span of time, our sofa looks soiled and ugly due to neglect, stains and overuse.

The second reason is overuse. As I mentioned earlier, a sofa serves almost every purpose at home. It hosts guests and we use it for multiple purposes, from watching TV to studying, playing games or even merely lounging around. Hence, we don’t want to miss this important object by sending it for repairs or maintenance.

Thirdly, there’s a myth or false belief that maintaining sofa or giving it a quick and stylish makeover could cost a fortune. We’re unwilling to spend that amount and, in some cases, genuinely unable to afford the cost of giving our sofa a stylist makeover.

What Neglecting Your Sofa Does?

Understandably, there could be other reasons as well for you to ignore this amazing furniture for which you would have paid a high price or even bought on installments. But what happens due to this neglect. Here’re some examples of what neglecting your sofa could mean.

• Overall shabby look to your office or living room.
• Possibility of breeding bed bugs and other insects such as cockroaches and wood borer worms.
• Foul odor emanating from the interiors of a sofa due to absorption of climatic moisture and other elements.
• Lack of comfort when sitting or using a sofa.
• Increased wear and tear resulting in shorter life span of the sofa causing losses of money.
• Accumulation of dust and cobwebs among other elements that can trigger allergies among residents and visitors.

As you can see, there’re several negative effects of neglecting or ignoring your sofa. All these can easily be avoided if you do a quick and stylish makeover of your sofa. And trust me, it doesn’t cost so much as you might imagine.

Therefore, let’s quickly look at some of the amazing quick and stylish sofa makeover hacks you can use, even with a limited budget. Remember, the main element is to ensure healthy living for your family, yourself and visitors.

Also, a superbly maintained sofa reflects the overall personality of your household and you too. Hence, continue reading carefully till the end of this article.

Quick and Stylish Sofa Makeover Hacks You Need to Try

The first and most important step to implement these amazing, quick and stylish sofa makeover hacks is to assess the overall condition of this important piece of furniture at home or workplace.

Find if the wood or other material is broken, bent or cracked somewhere and get it fixed without much delay. Also check for any worm infestations since woodborer worms aren’t seen outside. Instead, they live within the sofa and eat the wood by boring into it into fine dust.

Here're these hacks.

Pest Control

This is the most important, quick and stylish sofa makeover hack that I can offer, especially for owners of old sofas made of wood. The reason is that fabric, pillows, rubberized coir and wooden supports, among others are ideal breeding ground for bed bugs, silverfish and other worms that’re not usually visible.

Get your sofa treated with pesticides, fungicides and insecticides thoroughly. This could eliminate all worms and insects and render your sofa safe to sit. Always dust the sofa and wash if possible and dry under direct sunlight for best results.

You can easily get pest control services from various provides near you. The process takes only about an hour. The pest control company will assess your sofa to find what they need to eliminate and spray chemicals accordingly.

Use Sofa Covers

Using sofa covers is an excellent way to give your sofa a fresh and stylish look. They are also an affordable option for a quick makeover. Sofa covers offer several benefits:

Protection: They protect your sofa from spills, stains, and wear and tear, extending its lifespan.

Versatility: You can change the look of your sofa by simply swapping out the cover, which is especially useful for special occasions or seasonal decor changes.

Ease of Maintenance: Most sofa covers are machine washable, making them easy to clean and maintain.

When choosing a sofa cover, look for elastic stretchable sofa covers that fit snugly over your furniture. Stretchable fabrics ensure a better fit and a neater appearance.

At Hokipo, we offer a range of fully covered elastic stretchable sofa covers in different fabrics and patterns. Our covers provide a perfect blend of style and functionality, making it easy to keep your sofa looking new and stylish without a significant investment. You can explore our collection of sofa covers online.

Create Layers with Throw Cushions

Yes, you can create layers with throw cushions to give a cozy and expansive look to your sofa. An expansive look means the sofa will look broader and more welcoming to both, your household members and visitors.

Throw cushions can be bought offline and online. Add texture and color by layering your sofa with stylish throws and cushions. Choose contrasting colors or patterns to make a bold statement or keep it subtle with neutral tones for a sophisticated look.

Again, these throw cushions aren’t expensive and you can buy them in oval, round, square and also triangle shapes, depending on the size of your sofa and personal tastes. You can stuff them in superb cushion covers or cushion bags to match the sofa cover color and that of the room’s overall décor.

Use Seatback Protectors

This is a trick that I personally use at home and office. I learned it during my extensive travels on aircraft. Use seatback protectors. These are simple mats shaped like towels. You can stitch them with Velcro and affix to the backrest of the sofa.

A seatback protector protects your sofa from sweat of household members and visitors. They absorb the sweat and keep your sofa and sofa cover neat and clean. These seatback protectors can also be bought readymade or you can have them made from any tailor in the vicinity.

Furthermore, seatback protectors are easy to remove and wash. They give your sofa a neat and clean as well as welcoming look while eliminating odors caused by stale sweat. Take a look at how airlines maintain seats on their aircraft and you would surely see they use seatback protectors. A lot of star-rated hotels also use seatback protectors on their sofas.

Use Floormats

Yes, use floormats under the sofa. This is a subtle trick to ensure that persons with unwashed or dirty feet don’t soil your amazing sofa cover or the uncovered sofa in general. Thanks to the diverse ethnicity of India, we can get floormats for placing under our sofa in various shades and designs from both online and offline sources.

Keeping floormats also gives your sofa a grand look. The sofa will appear like a seat for royalty. Other than helping to keep your sofa clean, floormats also help you to give an overall decorative look for the area around your sofa.

These floormats don’t cost much and is one of the makeover hacks that you could easily use. Dusting the floormats and vacuuming them occasionally would be enough to maintain them clean and hygienic.

Arrange Sofa Throws

For the uninitiated, sofa throws are like small blankets made of cotton, polyester-cotton, wool or blended fabrics. They come in all colors and sizes. Sofa throws are artistic and can lend an aesthetic look to your sofa.

Sofa throws aren’t expensive by any means. This means, you can buy a few and use according to the seasons, your moods and festivals or occasions.

You can buy these online or offline and don’t cost much. They will also compliment the throw pillows that you use. At the same time, it’s very important to maintain sofa throws too. This means, getting them dry cleaned regularly and maintaining them in moth-free places that don’t have moisture.

Wrap Up

As you can see, giving your sofa a stylish look while enhancing the décor around it doesn’t really require much effort. Maintaining your sofa can also help prevent unwanted illnesses such as allergic rashes and bug bites or insect borne diseases.

Using fungicide can help the wooden parts of the sofa while ensuring that seatback protectors and throw cushions don’t fall victim to molds, especially in hot and humid Indian climatic conditions. Maintaining a sofa and giving it a quick stylish look is simple and easy and almost everyone that owns this important piece of furniture can afford.