Easy and Affordable Ways to Update Your Furniture in Less Than One Day - iVillage

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Helen Carey on May 25, 2006 at 2:06AM

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Easy and Affordable Ways to Update Your Furniture in Less Than One Day - iVillage

Toweling-Covered Armchair

If your furniture has seen better days ‑- or decades ‑- or if you're just plain bored with your current collection, it's time to make a change. Helen Carey, author of Weekend Furniture Facelifts shares five inexpensive ways to revamp a piece of furniture in each room of your house. And they all take less than a day to complete.

Cozy to sit on and hardwearing too, toweling is also a fantastic fabric for the novice upholsterer ‑- it's stretchy, easy to handle and the pile effectively hides any less-than-perfect beginner's mistakes.

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