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Let’s face facts: quality leather furniture is both expensive and aesthetically amazing. The feel of soft rich leather against your skin is next to godliness. Provided that your room is appropriately outfitted (“the feng shui” is right, etc); leather upholstery, couches, and other furniture can turn an ordinary room or space into something special, even royal.

On the other hand, leather is delicate. If you fail to protect your furniture correctly, all sorts of nastiness can happen: Fading, warping, cracking, blistering, discoloration, tearing… even molding. To “speed up” this process and destroy your leather furniture faster, follow these tips:

1. Expose your leather furniture to tons of sunlight.

Sunlight can bleach your leather, turning a rich burgundy into an ugly light brown in relatively short order. You can also crack the leather, dry it out, and generally “junk it up.”

2. Subject the leather to wild temperature swings.

Why not leave your leather chair next to an open window or air conditioner, where it can constantly be subjected to chilly blasts of leather destroying air? Or: make your room super hot. For instance, put a heater right next to leather chair.

For the fastest path to destruction, subject the leather to both temperature differentials at once – extreme heat and extreme cooling – and you will destroy your investment in no time flat.

3. Let stains set – you can always clean them up later. Right?

If you have kids, pets, or a sloppy uncle, don’t worry about protecting your leather or cleaning up after spills. Instead, allow stains — such as spilled beer, ground in pet-related goo, or toddler apple juice spills — to sit and marinate in the leather. Once these stains really set into the leather, they can be next to impossible to remove.

4. Destroy the natural oils in the leather with the use of soaps, detergents, and other harsh cleaners.

The natural oil in leather does not get replenished. Clean the leather with detergents, soaps (even oil based soaps and cleaners), and you can dry it out, leading to cracking, drying, and worse.

5. Fail to get professional help in time to save your leather.

Even if some damage has already been done, your leather can still be salvaged. The  team at  Elegant Carpet Care (www.elegant-carpetcare.com, 650-961-1339) has the resources, experienced team, processes, and eco friendly cleansers and techniques to repair even “far gone” leather furniture. So if you want to allow your leather furniture to be completely ruined and destroyed… don’t call for a FREE estimate today!

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