Our Schnauzers are allowed to go anywhere or lay anywhere they want in our house. No covers or blankets, they are our family. We have leather couches in the den and bedroom and if they want to get on them, it's fine with us. One good thing is that Schnauzers do not shed so from that standpoint we don't have a problem. They very rarely chew anything except their toys, oh maybe one of Don's slippers once in a while but really no problems with that, so they are free to go anywhere they want but their most favorite place is up in the bedroom where we have our computers and we have three or four plush beds and they usually sleep on those.
Jackie