Buy a cream/ivory sofa with a slip cover you can wash. Or the cheapest faux leather in cream. One that has heavy protection. The faux will outlast the real thing

Jan Moyer, do you have any certain brands of slip covered sofas you could recommend? What type of fabric should it be? A blend or cotton? Pros/cons to them? Wondering if they will always look wrinkled and sloppy.

New blue jeans, make for new blue steaks. I have a white fake leather couch in my office. It wasn’t expensive and frankly other than me laying on it to talk on the phone gets little traffic. I clean it with windex, lol. But, visitors with new blue jeans, make blue streaks! Just new ones

Personally, I don't love cream leather sofas. There's just something about them that scream "80's palm springs" to me. I like Jan's idea of a slip cover instead in a fabric

I used to have an ivory leather sofa and chairs(still have the chairs)

The leather was real leather, and we chose the more resistant type(the company gave options like that)

My kids were little at the time so the sofa saw a lot of abuse. From a very-very young artist trying different color markers on it, with me catching it a minute later, to sudden start of dysentery (sorry for TMI))

My only mistake was cleaning it myself so vigorously that I eventually made a hole in the leather..)) took several years though

Later I discovered there's professional cleaning and if not for my stupid mistakes that sofa would look like a new, and serve us for longer.

It lasted 12 years.

Interestingly, I found back then that some colors come off better than others. Talking about markers and pens

(yes I'm a strict Mom who teaches kids to respect stuff, so markers and pens business stopped pretty fast)

Chairs that saw less action still stand in my living, 20 years after..they do need to be reupholstered at this point, but not because of dirt.

I never regretted that decision, and I'm reluctant to reupholster the chairs or to buy new ones because I love the silhouette, size, and color the same as when I bought them.

It doesn't mean that there are no chairs I love except these-I love chairs)) But whatever I love enough to let go of mine, is usually pretty expensive.

The sofa had good versatile lines and was on a smaller side. I could lounge on it, but I'm 5.4.

We shipped it internationally at some point, to take with us, as also chairs and some other furniture. It had a busy life:)

To round it up lol. Unless there's some extreme abuse for a long time-you should be fine. With food and all. Clean per instructions. Never go too hard on it though (which instructions stated by the way, that was me who disregarded them), better to call a pro a some point. It'll look like new again.