My three ‘R’s’ of green design! There are so many different ways to design green …….. Recycling your current sofa is one of so many ways you can be ‘green’. So many times clients have said to me, ‘it’s a great quality sofa but I just don’t like it anymore……..I think I should just replace it.’ ……….. wait!

Reupholstering a sofa is a terrific way to take on the challenge of the three ‘R’s’. I love the test of redesigning a sofa and taking it from the ordinary to extraordinary! Besides just changing the fabric on a sofa there are some really cool ways to ‘trick out’ your sofa!

· Remove the skirt on a skirted sofa or add a skirt to a sofa with exposed legs 

· Add accent welting, or only accent the frame

· Add nail head details, around the base of the sofa up the arms of the sofa or around the outside back.

· Mix up your fabrics……use one fabric for the body, a second for the tops and bottoms of the cushions and a third for the overall welting and bands of the cushions

Mix up the design with trims…….

· Add unique trims

· Beaded trim along the skirt lines

· a brush fringe on cushions

· layout tape trim to create a pattern!

· Use a flat tape trim under a nail head detail and create a ribbon affect.

You see, no need to fill our landfills with your old sofa………just imagine what you can create!! Send me picutres of your sofas, chairs benches ………. lets see what we can create!