The great cover up: How to extend your furniture's life

Giving a professional makeover to furniture is a sustainable practice and is also an opportunity to explore pattern and colour

Upholstered chairs round a table make for comfortable post-dinner chats. This powder blue fabric from Linwood's Verde Collection is picked up in the lightshade for a coherent look (RRP €48.40 p/m at Ken Jackson Interiors).

A year of bums on seats and bodies prone on the sofa has had a wearing effect on fabric, as we’re now discovering.

But rather than slinging furniture out, have you considered recovering a worn and wrinkly but well-loved piece that has good bone structure underneath?