No, the Average College Grad Wasn't Making $100,000 in the 1980s

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Unless it's a weird shape or something, you can always do something with ugly furniture. Sofa covers do wonders to hide patterns that are no longer fashionable. You can do the same thing with other pieces of furniture, too.

Recently bought some of the ugliest dining chairs I've ever seen. I cannot state how much I hate their style. But they're solid wood and decent construction. They should last for years. Just put some dining chair slip covers on them and they fit right in with the rest of the house instead of sticking out like sore thumbs.

My sofa is pretty beat up at this point, after 20 years of daily living.  And it's a sectional - a sofa cover would be quite pricy to cover it (and it's just not real comfortable any longer).

Also, I have 2 "leather" chairs in my room that we covered with covers from Amazon.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Unfortunately, while they may LOOK nicer, every time you get up off the chair, you have to redo the cover - tuck it in all around, fiddle with corners, etc.  We finally just stopped sitting in them because they either looked terrible if you didn't do the work, or it was just a pain doing the work.  If you stop using furniture because it's too much of a pain to deal with, I don't think you've gained much in keeping it.  So off these chairs go.