Should You Keep Or Replace Your Favourite Lounge Couch?

We all have a favourite piece of furniture and a couch is often at the top of the list. We sit, read, watch, sleep and cuddle on couches ‒ no wonder they are the favourite. Unfortunately, this high usage rate shortens its lifespan, and you usually need to make the replacement decision at around the 15-year mark or sooner.
Here are three reasons for replacing your couch in Newcastle and two ways to revitalise it, including lounge cleaning.

Change Of Functional Needs

Couches are usually bought before armchairs, coffee tables and other furniture items. When your super funky two-seater has served your start-up apartment well but is now too small and delicate, it’s time to change your couch.

That Sinking Feeling

If you get that sinking feeling every time you sit on your couch, your cushions are more like pancakes, or you can feel the framework of your couch, it is time for a new couch! Before you land up with your derriere on the lounge rug, start visiting sofa stores and testing the most comfortable option for you.
Shabby Chic Is More Shabby Than Chic
Sometimes we are so used to seeing our trusty couch-stead stabled in our lounge that we don’t notice the developing pied-pony stain pattern. Pets, parties, buttery popcorn and playdough can add a grungy patina or patchy thin areas.
With the size of a couch making it a dominant visual element in your room, its shabbiness will make a big impact. Don’t drag down the overall attractiveness of your room with a tired, dishevelled couch. Invest in a new one.

Extend Your Couches Lifespan

You can avoid thin patchy areas in your couch fabric and most permanent stains if you book a lounge cleaning service every six months and vacuum weekly. Fabric doesn’t only pick up stains; it picks up physical, granular dirt. As these granules sit in the fabric, they rub abrasively against the yarn and finishing coatings. A weekly vacuum with your upholstery brush and a twice-a-year deep clean will add years to your couch.

Refurbishment Options

Refurbishment is another way of extending your couch’s lifespan. You won’t be able to buy fabric as cost-effectively as the original factory, so you will have to shop around more to find the ideal look versus price. Refurbishment usually includes strengthening the joins that have worked themselves loose over the years, re-strapping (or springs), new foam and dacron and new fabric. It might also need new inner covers.
Once you have costed this, you might find your favourite fabric brings the cost to that of a new couch. If the shape and size of the existing one are perfect, then refurbish. It will, after all, be a brand-new couch.
Some prudent preventative measures can save you hundreds of dollars per room in the long run. Extend the lifespan of your furniture and rugs in Newcastle with our impeccable upholstery and lounge cleaning service. Call us today!