UPDATE for BasketballMom..... SORRY I was incorrect on which sofa I sat on. I stated I sat on the Evening but it was the September sofa. Today we went back to Lexington Furniture for more research and help from the salesperson with which we're doing business. I like the looks of the Evening and a few others a little better than the Austin we are also considering. The Evening may work for us but we definitely need to consider the cushion type. When we sat in it we DID NOT lean way back (as we did in the September). However the cushions are Ultra Down/seat and back---they sit firmer. We're ordering anyway so we have a lot of options. H & M will make this sofa with their standard foam seat cushions along with Ultra Down back cushions if we wish. Whatever our choice, I feel we should keep seat and back cushions the same (all standard seat & back or all Ultra Down seat & back). Our salesperson and one of the owners really gave us a good education---we all learned something from fooling around with cushions today. Whether going with standard or down, all seating will "break in" and be more comfortable after some use. Try to find where you can sit in both types to see the difference. Standard cushions are more bouncy in a good way. In a furniture showroom some seating isn't as firm as when it first comes in due to being sat in and tried out. On three cushion sofas try sitting on the middle cushion and see the difference as to the side cushions---most people sit on a side cushion when trying out furniture. Lord the list goes on, doesn't it? I know exactly what I'm looking for so I will be traveling to Louisville and maybe Cincinnati to hopefully sit in an Evening with standard cushions or an Austin without the bustle back. I will be very clear, when approached by a salesperson, that I'm just looking. Good luck and let me know how your search goes.

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.

my3dogs, it's called an "apartment size" couch. If you do end up shopping retail for leather furniture, DEFINITELY hit Curriers!! (They don't sell H&M though.) We bought a Bradington-Young couch and chair/ottoman there in 2002 when we were riding the gravy train for a bit and absolutely loved working with them - Jan Currier, the owner's wife, spent hours with us and was just wonderful. They have a (literal) bargain basement that often has some pretty good stuff along with the inevitable "what were they thinking???" items. (The last time I was there there was a burnt-orange Buddha-belly sectional that had to have been at least ten feet long on each side - with two ginormous matching recliners! DH and I both nearly wet ourselves laughing. Jan said it had been a special order that the customer had never finished paying for and so it had been sitting there for years. I wonder if they ever unloaded it.) Their prices beat the pants off anywhere else in the Seacoast, too. Sorry, OSH, you won't be able to live vicariously through me on this one... it's waaaaaay too formal for this house, even if I had anywhere to put it! ("Your" couch is going in the kitchen sitting area once the LR sectional arrives, and then we'll be overloaded on the "big furniture" - I'll be getting rid of a couple of pieces. BTW, DH still calls you "the couch lady" and asks how you're doing every so often. :-))

The leather on the back cushions has been stretched. To me it looks like kids have been jumping or sitting on the back cushions or perhaps the family dog sitting on top of the back cushions or they ended up on floor and were used as pillows. This is perhaps an example of where a 40 lb kid, jumping on cushions can stretch and ruin the leather of a sofa. You could also try heating up the back cushion casings with a hot hair dryer holding it about 6" away and moving it around. This may help a little. You may have to bring these to an upholsterer and ask them to recut the back cushion casings. If they are down blend filled back cushions you might try unzipping the back cushions, grabbing the back cushion cores and shaking them up. In my opinion this is a stretched leather issue and not a collapsing cushion core problem. Otherwise the sofa looks quite good. If you just add fill to the backs it will just end up bunching up and moving around and you won't be happy. You could show this to a local upholsterer and see what they say. You might also send these pictures to Hancock and Moore and see what they say. Perhaps they would recut the casings. They may only do this for an original owner. I am not sure. You could also ask Hancock and Moore if they would sell you new cushion cores or even provide them for free. I think they will replace cores for an original owner for free (which I guess you are not). I would send them these pictures. Another possibility is to purchased new back cushion cores which are overfilled (from an online cushion company of which their are several--you can google this), which if properly made could fill up the loose casings. I suppose you could experiment by adding some fiberfill to the existing cushion casings to see how this would look.