Cushion Cover Buying Guide
Cushion Cover Buying Guide
Discover our collection of unique cushion covers designed with love for your home. Adding cushion covers to your home can instantly transform the look and feel of any room. From living rooms and bedrooms to outdoor areas, cushions add colour, pattern and comfort to any space. Made from natural fabrics, choose from pure linen cushion covers, pure cotton cushion covers, velvet cushion covers, organic cotton cushion covers and embroidered cushion covers. Featuring designs inspired by nature in colours to complement all interior décor, explore cushion covers for your sofa, bedroom and favourite chair.
Trending Cushion Covers in Summer 2025
Linen cushion covers
Elevate the look and feel of your sofa with beautiful cushions made from European linen, featuring motifs designed and hand-painted in-house and printed onto pure natural linen. Our palm tree cushions are perfect for summer, offering a feeling of the tropics for your home.
Our Palm Tree embroidered cushion cover featured three embroidered palms on a natural linen base.
Our Palms square cushion cover features an all over palm print on white pure linen with sham edge detail.
Cotton cushion covers - essentials
Add classic, understated style to your home for summer with the subtle checks of Echo cushion covers. Designed in soft hues for easy layering with pattern, plains and stripes. Designed in pale blue and natural with a subtle raised check woven in white. Made from soft yarn dyed cotton slub.
Our Breeze cushion covers are essential layering pieces perfect for pared back, simple styling and elevating patterned accent cushions. Designed in pale blue, sage green, amber and white with white fringe trim detail. Made from thickly woven yarn dyed cotton chambray slub.
Cotton cushion covers - summer stripes
Embracing the bold stripe trend for summer, Raya cushion covers will add bright colour to your sofa and bed styling. Choose from a range of two toned stripes and sizes, designed to be mixed and matched. The Raya large square cushion cover is designed in a blue/green yarn dyed stripe and a two tone blue yarn dyed stripe. The Raya rectangle cushion covers are designed in a blue/white yarn dyed stripe and an amber/white yarn dyed stripe. Made from 82% cotton and 18% linen.
Bee cushion covers
Celebrating Mother Nature’s busiest little helper, the iconic Wallace Cotton bee design has been reimagined in a new colourway for summer. Our Bee Trio Embroidered Cushion Cover features three embroidered bees in black and amber on white linen with a natural linen reverse.
Cushion Covers NZ - Buying Guide
Cushion cover size
Choose a cushion cover in a size to suit the piece of furniture it will sit on or the space it will be styled in. Square cushion covers and rectangle cushion covers are perfect for styling on your sofa or bed. Mix and match the different shapes to create a cosy and inviting look.
Cushion cover colour and design
When choosing cushion covers, consider the colour of the room, the colour of your sofa and the colour of the bedding you want to coordinate cushions with. Choose colours that match your décor for a calm, tranquil space. For a more vibrant feel, choose cushion covers in bold and brighter colours. If you love pattern and design, select cushion covers that feature a print or embroidered texture such as florals, shells, palm trees, bees, stripes or gingham checks.
Cushion cover fabric
Cushion covers are made from many different fabrics including cotton, pure linen, organic cotton and velvet. We prefer cushion covers made from the finest natural and sustainable fabrics which feel lovely to the touch, are easy to look after and look beautiful in your home. Mix and match linen cushion covers with velvet cushion covers or cotton cushion covers for relaxed, layered styling on your sofa or bed.
NZ Cushion Covers FAQs
Which is the best fabric for Cushion Covers in NZ?
The best fabric for cushion covers in NZ is natural and sustainable materials such as pure cotton, organic cotton, pure linen and cotton velvet. Quality, sustainable fabrics are better for your home and the planet as they are hard wearing, long lasting, beautiful, comfortable and biodegradable.
How do I care for the cushion covers?
Our cushion covers have a care label sewn into the inside seam. Care instructions for laundering differs for each type of fabric that cushion covers are made from. Most of our cushion covers prefer a cold machine wash with mild soap. Do not use bleach and line dry cushion covers in the shade to prevent fading of colour or pattern.
What is a standard size cushion cover?
There is more than one standard size for cushion covers. Rectangle cushion covers are usually 35cm x 55cm. Square cushion covers are 45cm x 45cm with a large square cushion cover measuring 55cm x 55cm. European cushion covers are the largest at 65cm x 65cm.
What’s the difference between a cushion cover and a pillowcase?
A cushion cover is a décor item for beautifying your home. Cushion covers usually have a zip closure along one side and require a matching cushion inner to fill it. A pillowcase is designed to cover a pillow inner, and is for resting your head on to sleep when in bed. Pillowcases are larger and longer than cushion covers and usually have a tucked 20cm fabric closure.
Cushion Cover Caring Tips
Our top tip for caring for your cushion covers is to carefully follow the instructions for laundering. This will protect the fabric and extend the life of your cushion cover. Cushion covers made from quality; natural fabrics will last longer if they’re cared for properly.
You will find a helpful care label sewn into the inside seam of our cushion covers. Care instructions for laundering will differ for each type of fabric that cushion covers are made from. Most of our cushion covers prefer a cold machine wash with mild soap. Do not use bleach and line dry cushion covers in the shade to prevent fading.
Do not display your cushion covers in direct sunlight for extended periods of time as NZ’s harsh UV rays will quickly fade any colour and pattern.
Our store locations
With stores across NZ and multiple stockists, you can visit us for the look and feel of the product before purchasing.
We have store locations in Rosedale | Cambridge | Christchurch | Dunedin | Mount Maunganui | Napier | Newmarket | Ponsonby | Queenstown | Takapuna | Te Aro | Wellington Central.