Pets can be good for your health, have a positive effect on your psyche and even improve your dating game. But having a furry family member can wreak havoc on your furnishings.

Even if they don’t use the sofa as a scratching post or chew your baskets to bits, pets invariably come with accessories like dog crates, litter boxes and other potential eyesores. Loose fur, dirty paw prints and unfortunate accidents are equally inevitable.

Abbe Fenimore, of Studio Ten 25 in Dallas, recommends using durable, easy-to-clean upholstery fabrics like the Treasure Hunt pattern by S. Harris that covers the chair where Ivy, her German shorthaired pointer, is sitting.CreditAbbe Fenimore