Showing posts with label leather furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leather furniture. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

How to Fresh Up Leather Furniture



Leather furniture is extremely graceful and stunning in appearance. Conversely, it is exceptionally sensitive too and it requires extraordinary care in cleaning if any blemish becomes visible on it. In order to help you out, here are some tips and formal procedure to clean the leather furniture, such as leather sofa beds, to make it functional for a long time.
Before starting the cleaning process, it is significant to find out the type of leather you’re working with. You may uncover this information on the tags fastened to your furniture. Let suppose you are having a leather bed then you may view tags to find out either it is a real leather bed or a faux one.  

Items required:
  • Soft fabric pieces
  • Body soap
  • Distilled water
  • Soft brush
  • Vacuum cleaner

Steps for cleaning:
  • Use a low voltage vacuum cleaner entailing a soft brush. High voltage or more powerful vacuum cleaners must be essentially avoided, because it will put down a scratch on leather, which will be horrible after sometime.
  • Before starting cleaning process, you must try the contents on I side of furniture which is hidden. It will help you out in determining that either the material is leaving terrible marks or not. If there are marks, you need to change the contents.
  • Make a watery solution of the body soap using condensed water. Now wet one cloth with that liquid and circularly rub it on the stain smoothly.
  • Take another piece of fabric and dip it in clean distilled water that is without soap, use it to wipe out the soap remainders.
  • Take a dry piece of fabric and use it to dry out the wet furniture part. Make sure that it absorbs all the moisture from the surface.

Follow some guidelines:
  • Never use any sort of furniture polishes, oils and waxes because may harm the leather and make it sticky.
  • Avoid the use of varnishes, strong cleaners, rough soaps, bleaches and ammonia products because they are having harsh effects that may destroy your whole leather item.
  • You must vacuum and dust your leather items on regular basis. it will clean out the small stains and dust particles instantly and will let your leather items breath. Your furniture will last longer.  
  • To avoid hard stains, do some cleaning treatments once a month. Make a solution of vinegar, distilled water and linseed oil and apply it on the furniture. Let it stay for 10 minutes then wipe out. Dry it after wiping. It will remove all small stains.
  • In order to protect your furniture from cracking or warning out, you need to place it outside in bright sunny day for at least 15 minutes once a weak. Keep it away from high heated places.
  • If you do not have the confidence to wash out it at your own, please call any professional and let it do his job. It will cost you little and will save your investment that you made on purchasing the items.


These are some of the simple tips and guidelines that will help you out in cleaning out your leather furniture in regular as well as severe conditions. 

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Buying Leather Furniture? 5 Tips to Remember!!


Shopping for furniture is a very important task as it is a major investment of your life. When selecting a piece of furniture, you will like to have a high quality and long lasting product. Leather is a material which is most stylish, luxurious, exotic yet expensive. This furniture comes in different varieties, colors, styles and qualities. There are many limitations which lead towards faux leather. The determination of the type of leather furniture wholly and solely depends upon your budget, home design and life style. Here are some tips which will help you to procure right leather furniture.

What is your family life style:
The beauty and elegance of real and authentic leather is that its beauty enhances and it gets better with the passage of time. As time will pass, it will become richer in color and its shine will get sparkling. If your family is larger with kids and busy households and you have pets too then leather furniture will require usual wear and tear. But in some cases the stains of certain markers, pens and pet claws will ruin the leather. For families that are smaller in size, faux leather furniture will be a good option because it will require a big concern of wear and tear and these are cheaper too.

Selection of style:
There are many varieties and styles available in this sort of furniture that is designed for different décor styles. For example, slim lined leather which is minimalistic one fits the modern styles and for traditional décor styles there are big pillowed sectionals. You must select that leather furniture which matches to the touch and tone of your home decoration because leather lasts for years.

Leather quality understanding:
Leather is a material which is made from natural stuff that’s why it has some natural imperfections; like discoloration, uneven surface and veins. These blots show the quality of the leather not its defects. When you have decided to purchase a piece of furniture then buy all items at one time because if you will order pieces at different times then there will be a drastic difference in the color which will destroy your furniture set and you will not be able to pair them together.

Know how about care:
This material needs care and proper moisture on routine basis. If you do not take proper care of it then it will get outdated by breakdown, peeling and cracking. Moisturizer is usually provided by the retailer along with the furniture and proper instructions are also provided about its use. If you are not able to take care of it then do not purchase it and go for other options like wooden furniture of metal furniture.  

Retailer must be reputable:
Always purchase it from a well reputed retailer because they do not mix the materials, non reputed one mix vinyl with leather; which is a man made leather and its quality is also low. This sort of leather loses its appeal over time.

These are some simple tips which will help you in purchasing leather furniture. If you are not on the board of taking care then you must not go for it.