 | Linda Warrington
has been in sales and interior design for 25 years, and employed by Horton's Furniture for l8 years. Linda has designed furnishings and murals for the Eaton Place in Wichita's Old Town business district as well as Chaucer Estates, Park Plaza West and Via Christi Executive Suites. Linda also owns her own mural painting business called 'Just You'. She can be reached by phone at (3l6) 722-5090, by fax at (3l6) 722-596l, or by mail at l09l5 W. Kellogg, Wichita, Ks., 67209. |
Interior Decorating
2002-08-01 12:16:00
When is it time?
: How do you know when to redecorate with new furniture (i.e. sofa, loveseat, chair, etc.) and when to re-upholster?
Linda Warrington
Question: How do you know when to redecorate with new furniture (i.e. sofa, loveseat, chair, etc.) and when to re-upholster?Answer: When your pieces start looking faded or shabby, or when you just can't stand the sight of that sofa or chair another minute. Believe me folks, I've had one of those tapestry sofas that never wears out and ends up looking "dated". Every time you look at the thing you just feel a little sick. Give it up. Donate that sofa to a charity. Uncle Sam allows you a deduction for this gift and someone else will love it the way you once did.Sometimes we have emotional attachments to our furniture. If you really love the shape of your sofa and just can't find another that looks and sits the way the one you have looks and sits and really hate the fact that its wearing out, by all means, re-upholster. It often costs as much to re-upholster as it does to buy new, but the object is happiness. Furniture is, after all, emotional. You could sit on the floor in an empty room. You would be uncomfortable and the room would not be very pretty, but you would survive.Sometimes a change to an adjoining room dictates a change in living room or family room upholstery, especially if one room is visible from another. Making color flow room to room is the object here, creating harmonious space promotes a feeling of space and well being. A room without furnishings is like a blank canvas. You can call it art, but it conveys nothing about the person living within.Your home is a reflection of the persons within that home and conveys to the world who you really are. What story is your home telling about you?
