Looking for the best value manufacturers for budget/mid-priced sofa.
cwaller1
7 years ago
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Comments (35)I know appliances today aren't made like they used to be. But it makes me wonder why? I mean, there was competition even back then! All those name brands even then were competing with each other. Why would the appliance manufacturer NOT want an early fail back then so the consumer would have to go out and purchase a new appliance? Surely they realized that by making a product to last 20 plus years that they would lose all those customers for the many years their appliance continued to work. I have a four year old Whirlpool DW and I was reading the manual because the rinse aid dispenser was leaking from the cap.......I started looking at the warranty and was surprised to see a couple of things. It has a ONE YEAR full warranty Second year limited warranty on "wash module" "In the 2nd year from the date of purchase, when this dishwasher is operated and maintained according to instructions attached to or furnished with the product. Whirlpool Corporation will pay for FSP replacement parts for any part of the wash module if defective in materials or workmanship" 2nd through 5th year limited warrant on electronic control system and nylon-coated dishracks "In the 2nd through the 5th years from the date of purchase, when this dishwasher is operated and maintained according to instructions attached to or furnished with this product, Whirlpool will pay for the FSP replacement parts for the following components if defective in materials or workmanship: the electronic control system, the upper and lower dishracks (for models with nylon-coated dish racks)" Twenty year warranty on tub and inner door should it fail to contain water, if defective in materials or workmanship. Service must be provided by a Whirlpool designated service company....See MoreBest Value for Leather Sofa?
Comments (6)I went with Legacy-Leather. We got what I believe is the full aniline leather which is the lowest grade leather (not soft). I have a 65 lb lab and a little ankle bitter with sharp nails. Both have rubbed their nails across my sofa and have not left permanent scratches or poked holes. One scratch the big one left when she jumped down I rubbed with my fingers and the oils from my hands blended it back in. I looked a more high end leather but the more expensive, the more delicate it gets. You can get the 8 way hand tied sofas from Legacy at a bargain price compared to others. I believe it's because they use more pieces of leather instead of whole hides. I love my loveseat I have from them (I've had for over a year) and I'm now buying a sofa in a different style but the same exact leather. I dealt with Zoe at Maplesleather that was mentioned on the Leather Chair thread. I bought my loveseat locally and paid more for it than she is selling me a sleeper couch for. Kinda makes me sick that I overpaid for my loveseat. De...See MoreQuality Leather Sofa on Budget
Comments (8)Maples Leather in NC sells Legacy Leather, which I think runs about equal to better in quality than BY. Eight way hand tied, down wrapped cushions, lifetime warranty-- etc. They're made in Canada. I have been shopping, but haven't bought yet. Stores that carry BY and H&M usually carry Legacy if you ask. The website has been touchy lately, since they just redesigned it, but at the Maples site, I think her legacy is listed as Traditional and High Country. At Comfortsource.com, they call it Luxury Leather. Why do they have to be so confusing???? Anyway, Maples High Country Indiana sofa looks similar to the one you liked and it was listed at $1599 there. They retail for around $2500 and up unless you catch a sale. Also, Maples runs free shipping specials periodically. I am waiting to catch a sale so I can order. Good luck. Here is a link that might be useful: Indian sofa-- Legacy...See MoreArchitect changed price mid-design; what are my options?
Comments (38)Virgil (and the people who liked his post) you misunderstood what I was saying. I never said anything about the contract between the OP and his architect. You are taking what I said to cmoncophd as a response to the OP. Which it was not. He gives an example of an architect (not necessarily the OP's architect) terminating a contract because the work was unreasonable (then assumes this is what the OP's architect has done). With this line of thinking, any purchaser of services (agreed upon with a fixed price contract) is free to literally run the the service provider ragged with revisions and changes until kingdom comes. This isn't logical, acceptable or practical in any way. At some point in time, any reasonable person will push away from the table and declare that enough is enough. This is my feeling of what your architect has done. My response was to him. I read this as him saying that regardless of the contract you can't expect a person to do an unreasonable amount of work. This is simply incorrect, the parties of a contract are obligated to foresee difficulties and plan for them, courts don't care about fairness. The courts have said that $1 is sufficient consideration to secure the transfer of any value. They have also said that a contract for $1 carries the same obligations as the same contract for $1,000,000 (a very few courts (Texas) say that consideration can't simply be token or nominal, but that doesn't apply here). I was commenting on the fact that no one, architect or other, can void a contract that they agreed to just because they didn't properly foresee the amount of work involved. It doesn't matter how ludicrously unfair it is. If you read my posts you will clearly see I was talking about fairness of a contract rather than the specifics of this contract. This had nothing to do with the OP's situation, only to cmoncophd's take on it. The architect in my post was the architect in his post that was fed up with the amount of work he agreed to....See Morecwaller1
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aimeekm
7 years agoI had my sofa made buy Build a Sofa. Mine is tufted and leather, so not a budget piece. But if you went with a simpler design, I think it would be a value (but not truly inexpensive). Their website says their full size sofas start at $1295
The website is truly awful .. but they have showroom in SoCal and Austin, if you are near by either of those places
Here's my sofa
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