Why change futon covers? Take a look around at the furniture in your home. Whenever you bought the new furniture it came with the pattern and material that you chose. Usually, at that time it was fashionable, trendy and stylish.

Content: Take a look around at the furniture in your home. Whenever you bought the new furniture it came with the pattern and material that you chose. Usually, at that time it was fashionable, trendy and stylish. Everyone who saw it fell in love with it. After a few years go by, styles and fashions change and you end up asking yourself, "What was I thinking about?" Of course then you start thinking about replacing the piece of furniture that is now dated. Subtle but the point is that your furniture is out of style and you want to replace it. Futons are a different beast entirely. They came onto the furniture scene back in the 1980´s and, at that time there wasn't much in the way of futon coverings available. Then one futon manufacturer came up with a display of hand painted coverings and the futon cover was a huge success after that.

Futon coverings are made with zippers or Velcro to allow them to be pulled off the mattress quickly and easily. This allows the customer to completely control the look of the furniture, giving it a brand new look and appearance, fresh and on pace with current styles and fabrics. An excellent example of this is the microfiber covering which is a man made synthetic material designed to emulate suede. Now most manufacturers offer microfiber coverings and they can be purchased at a fraction of the cost of a new sofa.

There are two ways to buy coverings for your futon. Retailers usually stock several hundred on the shelves, which can be purchased in bulk and sell for from about $40 and up. The other way is ordering. Futon stores have material books, or example fabrics that hang on racks around the store. This is the most cost effective way of purchasing, especially if you own a sofa and chair futon or other combinations. What most people do is to order 2-3 coordinating fabrics, as well as pillows, which will tie the décor in your room together.

Futon covers take the futon from a lonely piece of furniture to a center piece that can define the tone of any room.