How to choose and maintain fabric sofa?
September 11,2021
Sofa serve as the most important, the most conspicuous furniture in the living room which significantly matters the style of our home. Therefore it is necessary for us to have a deeper understanding on the area of sofa before purchasing inesting one.
If you have no time or just don’t want to trouble yourself on picking a sofa, fabric sofa is the perfect option beause it can provide you with a more comfortable experience with modern look and softer feel while wooden sofa with high quality is so expensive and you need spend too much time and energy to recognize fake goods both in leather and wooden sofa.
There are several kinds of fabric and colors providing for you to choose. The first judgment of sofa quality usually comes from the choice of fabric.
Fabri choice
- Fabric sofa with 100% cotton.
Cotton fabric sofa features environmental protection, comfortable, breathable which has occupied the most market shares at present. Idyllic scenery style fabric sofa is most commonly found in the market because it has various images and colors and a friendly price that most people could afford it. However, this kind material has a poor elasticity and easy to be tinted with other colors. When choosing fabric sofa with 100% cotton, we must focus on its soft feel and well-distributed image color. Furthermore we can pull out a piece of a thread and burn it. If it turns to ash and at the same time without scorched flavor the fabric is good.
- Velvet fabric sofa.
Thanks to the soft velvet material, this sofa is usually cozy and comfortable than other kinds of fabric sofas. But the surface is easy to be stained with all kinds of fiber, the surface of the velvet will fall off for a long time and it will takes your lots of time to clear. However, you can choose velvet fabric in high quality to reduce the falling problem at some degree.
- Leathercombined with fabric sofa
In the last two years, leather cloth combined sofa begin to prevail among the sofa market. Merchants applied leather to some places such as armrest and back of a sofa where are easy to be stained and difficult to be detached while the place that may be frequently contacted with users and can conveniently be detached is made of fabric material. The place such as armrest of the back of a chair is dirty but not easy to unpack and wash leather, and the place that other and human body close contact unpack and wash easily is cloth. Now the newest leather cloth combined sofa is made of nanometer material for cleaning more conveniently.
Maintenance of fabric sofa
The deadly flaw of fabric sofa is hard to clean as it is easy to be stained as most of people are likely to enjoy food when sitting on sofa. It is easy to be stained by beverage, tea and coffee. The armrest, aperture of a fabric and cushion are the key places that need to clean.
- Take them out and wash them.
Nowadays most of the clothsofas could be detached their covers from the main body. You can wash your dirty sofa covers by throwing them into washing machine or by dry cleaning and then set them back. In this step, you may find that if the sofa can be detached easily is important as well as choosing washing machine allowing fabric because some kinds of fabric are forbidden washing in machine.
Sofa covers with cotton material can be washed with low temperature, washing them by your hands as far as possible and you had better not to use bleach to prevent color fading. Jacquard has the advantage of not fading easily and suits for washing in machine. But if artificial cotton, rayon and so on are added to the cloth, it has to be dry-cleaned. No matter printed cloth or jacquard cloth, when the fabric composition is linen, wool and other easy shrinkage natural fiber, it only allows to dry cleaning. If there is a small stained area, there is no need to remove the cover, just scrubbing with water. When scrubbing, do not use too much water. After scrubbing, it is best to dry with a hair dryer so as not to cause damp mildew, deformation and damage the appearance of the sofa.
- Washing assisting with a cleanser
If clean water cannot scrub dirty place clean, it is a good choice to scrub with special cleaner, combined with sponge performs better as it absorbs water well and generate static electricity when rubbed so it is convenient to clean the stain of sofa. However, we should pay attention to different stains to choose different cleaners to scrub, targeted cleaning can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
- Professional cleaning
If cloth art sofa has the besmirch of large area, we recommend to asks professional sofa washing for help.
Colan is a design-led furniture corporation possessing our own factory. We cooperate with so many designers both in home and abroad. Meanwhile, we are still try our best to control the cost of our products to ensure that our customers get the most exquisite products at a more affordable price. We will provide you with a varitey of fabric sofas in bluk.