Upholstery options for upholstered furniture. Which to choose

When choosing a sofa or a drawing of old furniture, the upholstery material deserves special attention, since various types of upholstery have excellent performance, design, cost and other trifles. In addition, it is possible that the upholstery material, ideally suitable for the living room, will absolutely irrational to look at the kitchen sofa.

Types of upholstery materials

Currently, there are 2 main categories of materials used for furniture upholstery - it is textiles and leather.

Textile upholstery

The range of upholstery fabric every year everything increases, hitting its splendor. However, the operational characteristics of various kinds of textile upholstery are largely dependent on the composition of the fabric, among which it is allocated:

1. Natural textiles (cotton, silk flax, wool), consisting at least 50% of natural yarns.

Pros:

• environmental friendliness;
• air permeability;
• does not cause allergies.

Minuses:

• great probability shrinkage material;
• induluction;
• low wear resistance;
• little service life;
• high price.

2. Artificial textiles (viscose) containing threads obtained in the process of processing natural raw materials.

Advantages:

• excellent air permeability;
• moisture absorption capacity;
• pleasant to touch the softness of the material.

Disadvantages:

• induluction;
• bad wear resistance;
• dISTRIBUTY OF USE.

3. Synthetic textiles, the basis of production of which is served by nylon, polyester, lavsan, kapron and others, are represented by polyamide and polyester threads.

Pros:

• increased wear resistance;
• lack of deformation of material over time;
• the immutability of the initial shade under the influence of ultraviolet;
• ease of care;
• durability.

Minuses:

• bad breathability;
• attracts dust.

Choosing the composition, it is worth considering that synthetic threads give the canvas strength, thereby increasing its wear resistance. As a rule, most of the upholstery fabric is made by combining natural yarns and synthetic, or artificial, although it is often a combination of all types in one canvas.

In addition to the composition of the fabric, the method of its production is plays an important role in the formation of important properties of the upholstery textile:

• Woven. The facial face of the fabric can be covered with villi, woven into the fabric along the manufacture of the web (Shenille), or made by the longitudinal transverse weaving of the threads without the use of a pile (jacquard). At the same time, a porous fabric is highlighted by the softness of the material, and loud-free - rigidity affecting the duration of the upholstery operation.

• Non-woven (flock, suede). Materials related to this type of textiles are represented by pamper fabrics. In this case, the pile is not woven, but applied to the base with the help of an adhesive layer, after drying, the base is quite removed.

Most of the upholstery materials having a tissue base are subjected to teflon impregnation that improves such indicators such as strength, resistance to mechanical damage, duration of operation. In order to save funds, the Teflon coating can be treated with the fabric, and not applied in the form of impregnation. However, high-quality characteristics are somewhat reduced.

Leather upholstery

The most expensive and respectable material has always been natural and artificial leather.

Genuine leather, covered by the completion of the processing process with a special composition, has better qualities than left uncovered, although it looks not very natural.

Currently, high-quality artificial leather is practically not inferior according to the properties of natural, but it is even an order of magnitude cheaper.

At the same time, both natural and artificial leather, produced with a violation of the technological process, can quickly quickly crack, laying down the seams, spoiling all the aesthetics of the design.

Thus, the types of upholstery of upholstered furniture today is quite diverse, opening excellent opportunities in choosing the required material. However, a variety of textile materials, like a different kind of leather upholstery, possess their advantages and disadvantages that need to be considered when choosing or a preheating of upholstered furniture relative to future operating conditions and interior of the room.

Upholstery Embodiments

Any upholstery material has its own unique characteristics that determine its quality and properties.

The following materials for upholstery of upholstered furniture use the greatest demand:

1. Flock - manufactured by sticking to the tissue base of polyester. It is quite possible to meet a flock, imitating velvet, suede, shenill, velor, since the vehicle used in the production may have different lengths. Due to the large content in the material of synthetics, the placement of the lubricated flock furniture in the bedroom is not a very rational solution. However, in the living room, such furniture will have to be very much, especially if there are pets, who want to swing their claws.

Advantages:

• variety of color gamut;
• has high strength qualities in front of mechanical exposure;
• relative resistance to abrasion;
• does not fade;
• perfectly leaving any kind of cleaning with neutral detergents;
• unpretentious care;
• low cost.

Disadvantages:

• high static material requires constant anti-static treatment;
• absorbs odors;
• the operational period is limited to the quality of the material.

2. Velor - includes diverse pile fabrics, among which are most often used knitted. In this case, velor, having a basis and combining wool, cotton threads with chemical fibers, significantly surpasses knitted pile fabrics both by price and quality. In addition, the velary pile is either smoothed, or is issued by laying a certain type of pattern, embossed, combing on a stencil and other methods that give the material special attractiveness.

Pros:

• variety of colors;
• refers to breathable materials;
• stretched, allowing you to drag furniture of complex forms;
• has good wear resistance;
• it has simplicity of care;
• acceptable cost.

Minuses:

• low gap strength;
• high probability of melting material when conducting a wet cleaning;
• dISTRIBUTY.

3. Microfiber - with a tactile inspection, it is very similar to the natural suede. In this case, the microfiber is made by weaving the polyamide fiber, which gives the material with a mass of positive qualities. To increase the operational properties of the microfiber is covered by teflon impregnation.

Advantages:

• wide fation gamma;
• resistance to peeling;
• does not change the shade under the prolonged exposure to ultraviolet, the use of cleaning agents;
• high resistance to abrasive abrasion;
• ability to pass air;
• prevents the accumulation of dust;
• ability to restore after a minor mechanical impact;
• ease of care;
• duration of operation.

Disadvantages:

• high price.

4. Shenill is a cloth with high density, strength due to the complex weave of synthetic and natural fibers, but pleasant and soft to the touch, thanks to the shenyl thread, which is obtained as a result of the pile of pile between the spiral spirals.

Pros:

• excellent wear resistance;
• does not attract dust;
• no fabric shrinkage;
• not subject to peeling;
• fabric is not crushed;
• does not absorb smells;
• resistance to fading;
• ease of care;
• duration of operation;
• the average price category.

Minuses:

• not resistance to moisture;
• not suitable in the presence of domestic animals.

5. Jacquard is an artificial silk, differing from natural material greater density, since it is produced by the longitudinally transverse weave of natural and synthetic threads. However, many operational characteristics of jacquard tissue depend on the method of giving the figure of volume:

• woven - the drawing appears in the process of manufacture by using the threads of various colors;

• printed - color drawing is imprinted on the finished canvas with a hot press.

Jacquard, obtained in the first way, possesses the following advantages:

• variety of colors;
• high strength to damage;
• ultraviolet resistance;
• abrasion resistance;
• excellent air permeability;
• unpretentious in operation;
• durability.

Disadvantages:

• lack of resistance to water;
• the complexity of removing any kind of spots;
• high price.

6. Tapestry is a sufficiently rigid material made from natural tissues. The technology of making the canvas is similar to the process of producing jacquard fabrics, with the only difference that thread threads are used for tapestry. The similarity of production technology causes the superiority of tapestry tissue over jacquard on many operational characteristics.

Advantages:

• abundance of diverse colors, textures;
• effects of decor;
• high resistance to abrasion;
• resistance to fading;
• ease of care;
• long service life.

Disadvantages:

• high price.

7. Artificial suede - in appearance is no different from the natural, and according to the properties even surpasses it. Artificial suede is made by woven, as well as a nonwoven method. At the same time, the woven suede has greater strength and better operational properties than produced by a nonwoven way.

Advantages:

• air permeability;
• high wear resistance;
• color resistance;
• duration of operation.

Disadvantages:

• carelessness;
• the price is above average.

8. Genuine leather is the embodiment of luxury and practicality.

Pros:

• ability to breathe;
• moisture resistance;
• high strength to physical exposure;
• high resistance to abrasion;
• durability.

Disadvantages:

• limited color scheme;
• complexity of care;
• high price.

9. The artificial leather is represented by a porous or monolithic PVC layer applied over cotton or knitted bases.

Advantages:

• many color gamut;
• pleasant texture;
• moisture resistance;
• air permeability;
• wear resistance;
• ease of care;
• acceptable price.

Minuses:

• relative resistance to abrasion;
• ease of mechanical damage;
• not resistant to open fire;
• low light resistance;
• little service life.

Thus, the manifold selection of upholstery of upholstered furniture, the photo of which is present in the article, is very large, and the correctness of its choice is directly related to the type of room intended for the arrangement of upholstered furniture, the presence in the house of animals, the activity of the use of furniture in the appointment, etc.

Criteria for the choice of upholstery

The diversity of modern upholstery material allows you to choose the optimal version of the upholstery of upholstered furniture, based on the following factors:

• Children's - predominant position occupy environmentally friendly materials represented by high content in the composition of natural thread tissues, among which cotton, jacquard, shenill or tapestry are distinguished.

• Living room - special attention must be paid to the wear resistance of the material, since the living room is upholstered furnished in fairly active use. The ideal option is Flock, artificial suede, velor, shenill, jacquard, microfiber, tapestry, genuine leather. In this case, the composition of the material may not contain natural fibers, or included in a small percentage ratio.

• The bedroom is the optimal ratio in the composition of natural and artificial threads needed for furniture located in the bedroom, is 50%. The most acceptable upholstery options are Shenille, tapestry, jacquard, velor.

• The kitchen is crucial about the unpretentiousness of the care of the upholstery and the possibility of conducting wet cleaning using detergents, since the formation on kitchen soft furniture spots is an inevitable problem. Such materials include: Shenille, suede, genuine leather.

Important value has a combination of upholstery with a common room design. For example, leather upholstered furniture will be quite inappropriate to look indoors, which are different simplicity. At the same time, the leather sofa is ideal for a richly decorated living room, a working office or an office.

If there are animals in the house, it is worth stopping the choice on flock, since the material has high resistance to mechanical damage, especially for animal claws.

In general, it is necessary to choose the upholstery, based on the specific conditions for the future operation of upholstered furniture, and when performing furniture halves, you should also take into account the ease of working with a specific upholstery material.

Upholstered furniture technology

Regardless of the type of upholstery material, the sequence of performance when replacing upholstered furniture is the same and includes several stages.

Disassembly design

For high-quality work, the design of upholstered furniture is dismantled to the components of the elements:

1. We dismantle the side backs.
2. Disconnect the back and seat from the design frame.
3. We dismantle the decor's overhead elements present on some models over the upholstery material.

All bolts and other fasteners are better folded in separate boxes so that when assembling the finished product it has not been unnecessary or missing fasteners.

Dismantling replaceable elements

To fix the upholstery of modern furniture to the frame, a furniture stapler uses, so the upholstery does not cause special difficulties. In this case, you can remove the brackets using an antishepler or, pushing the bracket with a flat screwdriver, pull out the pliers. The main thing is not to break the old coating, since it is still useful.

After removing the upholstery, the filler is removed. In most cases, foam rubber acts filler, which is small and also requires updating.

After removing the items requiring replacement, you need to scroll and glue all the composite parts of the frame, as well as strengthen the joints.

Cutting filler and upholstery

Due to the fact that the upholstery of upholstered furniture, the prices of which are quite high, requires maximum attention, then in the process of cutting should not be distracted by outsiders. However, we first cut the filler:

1. Old filler lay on top of a new on a flat plane.
2. Combate the contour and cut out.

For the pattern of a new upholstery:

1. We put the purchased upholstery material on a flat surface with the involving side up.
2. Old upholstery put on top of a new face down.
3. We supply the contour, leaving the allowances for the material bending about 5 cm.
4. Cut.

If the upholstery consists of several elements stitched into one web, then you will have to spread the seams and make the pattern of individual items, which then need to sew by analogy with the original option.

Upholstery of individual details of furniture

Before you begin upgrading up the upholstered furniture with your own hands, you need to fix a new foam rubber on the framework of the product through a furniture stapler. Then:

1. We take a back and fasten upholstery, bending the edges, along the entire length of the details on the one hand using the stapler.
2. Go to the opposite direction and, pulling the canvas, fix the upholstery at first near the edge on both sides, in the center, and then pass through the remaining distance.
3. Similarly, the length is fixed by the upholstery width, leaving the corners free.
4. Fix the corners, observing the uniform distribution of folds.

Seat, sidewalls, framework by analogy with the back.

Build construction

When all the composite elements of the upholstered furniture are ready, you can start assembling, restoring the initial type of product.

Having looked at the video upholstery of upholstered furniture, you can once again clearly make sure the simplicity of the technological process and try to change the sofa upholstery on your own:

Thus, a competent approach to the choice of upholstery and high-quality work performed on the product of the product is a guarantee of the durability of a loved object.