Furniture forum is a great site. We had a similar experience to yours. My wife fell in love with our son's power recliner, power sofa, power love seat, and wanted one. So I said okay. After many tryouts, we realized that they are only comfortable when you reclined. Not good for straight seating. We constantly get on and off to take our dog out, the fridge, etc. We wound up with a traditional sofa and ottoman, and chair from Stickley. If I knew about the City Sofa, I probably would have gone that way. I made a good choice, but the City is a winner. Duane Collie often recommends that sofa.

Thank you all so much for the advice and information. I think you're right that I really need to sit down and think about this purchase more, rather than just jumping in feet first because of the "good deal". It sounds like if I like it enough to be the largest thing in the space, it will work with what I have and it will be a great quality piece. But, if I find myself doing this for the deal, then maybe I should reconsider and look elsewhere. Thank you, my3dogs for the pictures of the H&M September sofa in a darker color. I have to say, I'm liking the style a lot more seeing it in the darker color. Though I do still have similar concerns about the "heaviness" of the sofa. Wow, runninginplace, that's a really lovely sofa. I thought Thomasville was on par cost-wise with H&M. Maybe I need to do more searching locally to see exactly what is available and what I can find on sale. That's a great point about the fact that I'm considering the "life" of the sofa in my house.

I also recently had the opportunity to purchase a used Hancock and Moore leather sofa. You can read the thread to see what others thought about the deal. As I understand Hancock and Moore leather sofas are some of the best out there. After calling around locally to get a better understanding of retail pricing, I snapped up the sofa. It is incredibly comfortable and the leather is very soft. I'm extremely pleased that we jumped on the deal when we did and I love the sofa. Assuming you've looked at the Reed sofa and concluded that it is in good shape and the style for you, I'd say $850 is a great price.

Married cover is a program that several leather furniture manufactures use as a promotional tool. It is a way for manufactures to hit a lower price point within their regular line of frames. The program is limited on styles and leathers available. Most of the time the leathers used for these selected frames are less expensive hides or hides from overseas like China. The point is to offer additional savings to the customer on current in line styles although the leathers are generally outside of their normal offerings, but not always. Sometimes the same leathers will be available on other frames within the lower price points but it is not a good idea to buy an item from married cover and order something off the program because of the difference in dye-lots. The hides are ordered in large lots allowing a discount for the footage of the leathers used for these programs, after all leather is sold by the foot not by the yard like fabric. Then overseas the leather is cut and sewn using a pattern provided by the American based manufacture and then shipped to the USA to the selected factory to use to upholster the product. Never buy a married cover piece if you ever want to get a matching piece later. Because these patterns are cut in large batches the likelihood of ever getting a match of the leather is extremely slim. It is a good deal for some, but you should not expect to get the top premium hides for your piece these are promotion leathers. Bradington Young has several of these married cover pieces available for their recliners and I have actually seen two ordered together and not be from the same dye-lot. The price is good if you are not looking to buy a leather that is out of the normal color scheme of blue, brown or burgundy. You can expect to find only the basic color choices.