Unless you know the rules of the road, buying a sofa can be a real pain the cocktail table! And so, this Bucks County interior designer is here to tell you that knowledge is power, so have a little on me.
You can spend under $1,000 or over $12,000 on a sofa. You can buy something totally under engineered or highly over engineered. There is no right answer, but there are the right questions I must always ask clients to consider - will it hold up, hold its shape, provide comfort, continue to provide comfort after the first 1-3 years?
Consider Quality and Price
Pick one because you can't always seem to have both. The $4,000 sofa is simply going to sit exponentially more comfortably and last a decade or more as compared to its $1,000 cousin. It's the construction: frame construction and suspension system, cushions and fabric.
To a sofa, you and I are nothing more than "load." We're the dead weight that has to be supported over and over again, whether gently placed on the same cushion each evening, or whether plopped and sprawled in all manner over what is just a bunch wood, fill and cloth.
I am not for or against any price points. Budget always guides design. But you do need to go into the exercise knowing upfront your quality and performance expectations so you can weigh these against quality, performance and price.
