The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers Transform Your Furniture with Fitted or Casual Covers PDF
Preview The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers Transform Your Furniture with Fitted or Casual Covers
THE COMPLETE PHOTO GUIDE TO Sleee Transform Your ~~ Furniture with Fitted or Casual Covers Edited by Linda Neubauer The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers Transform Your Furniture with Classic or Casual Covers EDITED BY LINDA NEUBAUER Contents Furniture Facel (ts 7 Choosing the Right Fabric 1 Reversiole Seat Cover VW Kitchen and Dining Chairs 25 Parsons Chair S| ottoman 57 Fitted Cavers for Upholstered Furniture Wing Chair 73 Futon Cover 8 Caybed cover 27 Direelers Chair 95 Garcen choir 10) OL wweer Chee 108 Sliocover Basics 12 terms to Know Furniture Facelifts ondon'thaw 9 bay new formirare ro ssvoyoor horre a now look. Tn fact ya ay lowe yon homtail sed the say if fits yom. they yenve grinsn Tide rec af th vale a> patton. 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They alsa may 36 solid.an color or printed, Januar weaves 3). snoloding damask, tapestries, and brovades, have woven-un designs, Bovelly weaves (4) often siigle eulurs, Jeavure lesluralialeresl eceated by completed weave patuerns. ‘These labvive ne very vesatile aay color sebeane Vike Sabries chenille, have interesting sucface lesbares, |. such sue, esduryys and ecocator fabvies forthe interior are ofa ‘rate of netaral fibers, which inehade potton, Linens, and wal, Sarre thers are brrecihable, erafurtable, apd easy Lo se Un tunately. these Labrie don't perfurm very weillbr porches, cansvoms, or eutdvors Tu keep ag wita the steoag Leu wna ou our decorating, namulaclurers are su mals ing waer-repella,Fadence tant, auryliv ur plyester decorator fries thal look an fee like interine farce. They are enlow fast nd are treated 16 rosie stains and mildew
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