A couch is a defining feature of a living room... so making this one change recently in ours has had a huge impact!!
We have an IKEA Karlstad 3-seater sofa that I bought on Craigslist in 2013?? for $100. At our last house
we got this green velvet slipcover for it and it
made the room!! In this house, our living room is already so full of color and character with the warm wood trim and original fireplace... I was ready to calm down the color and try something more neutral.
I also wanted a more classic/modern traditional look, less midcentury. So, I got a custom skirted sofa cover from
Comfort Works and... WOW.... it has made me love our living room so much more!!
Comfort Works sent this slipcover for my review! All opinions are my own, I genuinely love their products!
You can see our previous
Comfort Works slipcover
here, plus in
our 500 SF apartment tour while we were house-hunting, and then
in this house. It has held up so well and is still that bold, beautiful green and stain-resistant washable velvet! I absolutely love their concept--
replacement slipcovers for IKEA and other brands of couches and chairs--and they come in a lot of styles and colors I like. I'm just not ready to replace our Karlstad yet, so I looked at the options for recovering it.
I got quite a few samples from
Comfort Works, and compared them based on color in real life plus durability and texture. I definitely recommend ordering samples!
I chose the
Karlstad 3 seater sofa covers in Kino Natural fabric in a long skirt style. The Kino fabric is one of their more durable ones, a must since we're getting a lighter-colored sofa and have a baby, cat, and two sometimes messy adults. Plus, the skirt is so fabulous!! Our $100 sofa is looking like a designer one!
