Photography by Simon Brown | Produced by Katrin Cargill

Slipcovers allow you to make changes at home without making changes—or much of one. Old furniture becomes new. Add tassels and piping, trims and fringes, skirts and pleats to the slipcover, and the possibilities for transforming furniture and the rooms in which they figure become even greater—as Katrin Cargill, MILIEU‘s European Style Editor, proves here. And for extra panache, Cargill had a bolt of heavy woven fabric hand-painted, which really sets a new scene.