Brown Leather

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At some point you will be standing in your living room and will realize that you simply cannot live with your couch any longer. You realize the stain on the center cushion is from when your 15-year-old son spilled his grape Kool-Aid at age five. You realize you haven’t even seen the arms of the sofa in 10 years because you’ve had to keep covers on them to hide the ground-in grime that won’t scrub out. You also realize that you are sick and tired of adjusting those covers because they’re always crooked.

Time for a new sofa! But with so many choices of color, upholstery and style, how do you start? One factor of the equation can be settled immediately. The color to buy is brown. Brown leather does not show stains, hides accidents and injuries better than any other color and will always be in style. Brown goes with literally every single color scheme, and brown is also the color of chocolate. Who doesn’t love chocolate?

The next question that is settled easily is the upholstery. Should you buy fabric or leather? Leather furniture has so many advantages over fabric, it would be impossible to list them all here. Basically, leather is more durable and resistant to tears and stains than fabric. For people with pets, leather is the only thing that holds up to the extra wear and tear. Leather also feels cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Leather just can’t be beat for upholstery on a piece of furniture that will used daily by a family.

Having settled that you will be buying a brown leather sofa, the first thing to do is to measure your living room. It’s best to also measure any entrances and doorways that the couch will have to get through to get into the living room, and think about any right-angle turns you might have to maneuver it through. If your dream sofa won’t fit into your living room, what’s the point in buying it? Explore alternatives ahead of time, such as removing a large window temporarily to get the sofa in the room. Will anything like that be necessary?

Next, make a drawing of the room, complete with adjacent hallways, doorways and other non-movable parts to the room that impact where you might place the sofa. Sketch in the rest of the room’s furniture that will be staying in the room, and make everything to scale. A scale of one inch to one foot is usually fairly easy to figure out. Next, sketch in the sofa where you think you’ll put it, at the size you think looks right so that it feels proportionately correct to the scale of the room. Now measure that drawing of the sofa, and you’ll know what size sofa you’re looking for.

If that size doesn’t seem right, play around with your drawing, changing things, until it all feels right. Take the drawing of the room with you when you go to the furniture store so the sales assistant will know exactly what you’re looking for. This will save a lot of time. They know their inventory and can point you to the available brown leather sofa selections immediately.

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Now, as you sit down on and try out various sofas, bear in mind the size of the people who will be sitting on it daily. Tall people and elderly people have trouble getting up out of furniture that is close to the ground. Short people have trouble with their feet not touching the floor if the sofa is very deep and/or higher up off the ground, although this problem is fairly easy to solve with an ottoman or a reclining sofa.

You should also think about what you’ll be doing while sitting on the sofa. If you’ll be relaxing, watching TV or movies or reading, you’ll want a really soft, cushy sofa. If you’ll be receiving visitors in the room where you’ll put the sofa, you may want a more traditionally styled one that looks formal or semi-formal. Styles of sofas vary widely, from modern art deco to Victorian, plus all other styles in between. You can also have a sofa custom-made just for you, if you have the bucks to spend and it’s that important.

A sofa is usually a long-term investment — look how long you had the one you’re currently sick of — so why not spend money to get exactly what you want? A good furniture store will have sales assistants that are specially trained in home décor and furnishings, and they can help you get the best sofa you can afford: one that will make every day seem like a vacation the minute you sink into its cushiony caress. And just think! No more arm covers to adjust!