We purchased the Beecroft five years ago and it's quite good. I wish the seat cushions weren't pure down / feathers -- because the Beecroft sofa is deep and the seat soft sometimes it can be hard to get up. Ahem. Also, and let's face it, if a sofa is sat upon the cushions aren't going to look as fluffy as they do in photos. So I poof them up and they're right as rain. I probably should have some foam inserts made for the interior of the cushions ....

Anyway, and it does occasionally leak some feathers, which my four year-old loves pulling out! But all in all we really like our sofa and would get it again.

We did COM and I have to say they did an absolutely stunning job on the slipcover, plus the people in the store (San Francisco) were so helpful, so friendly -- they made the purchase of it a fun experience.

Thanks rmkitchen. I love the Beecroft --- The one I'm looking at is the Squadgy sofa. It says foam cushion seat & I wish the seats would be down-wrapped.

I don't have the sofa but I have a chair. Based on the information I have about how the furniture is made and what I see when I open up the cushions I think it is one of the finest pieces of furniture you can buy. Each piece is custom made (i.e. "bench made") in the USA. All their furniture is 8-way hand tied with eight gauge steel coil springs and the frame uses premium grade, kiln-dried five quarter hard wood. You can't get better than that. Certainly not Ethan Allen, they don't do 8-way hand tied. Authenic RA Shabby Chic is really high quality.

How are you planning on acquiring this sofa since the company has filed Chapter 11 and is no longer accepting orders. Sounds like you are about to buy it from a third party, is it a store or something you saw on Craigslist? How much are they asking? Don't worry about it having a foam insert, that can always be changed. Hopefully the company will recover from bankruptcy and will be taking orders again, then you can order new cushion inserts if you really want them. Or cheaper yet, go to an upholsterer and have them change it out. My chair has the down and feather wrapped foam core. I absolutely love my RA shabby chic chair. :o)

BTW, feathers don't come through RA SC cushions. The foam/down/feathers are encased in a cover with zipper. This inner cushion is then inserted into another cover with a zipper. So the feathers would have to work their way through three layers of fabric before you'd ever see them.

flyingflower: Thanks for the info. A friend of mine is tired of being shabby chic (she's going modern) & wants to give me her Shabby Chic sofa. I'm just wondering whether it's worth the cost to have another slipcover made for it (since the current cover is basically gone to the dogs--literally) :-D

She's willing to give it to you free?! Grab it before she changes her mind, you lucky dog! :D
Even after paying a seamstress to make a new slipcover you're still getting off cheap, saving at least 3 grand over the cost of a new one. Just remove the tattered slipcovers and hand it over to a seamstress to copy the pattern and make an indentical new one. That's the beauty of slipcovered furniture, none of that reupholstering business. Heck, if you really want to have some fun, down the road get another made and swap out covers seasonally.