@kreizman, and @namarie, thank you both for the update! I'm debating on going with a @Monarch Sofas C&B Axis II lookalike. I'm forever paranoid of foam breaking down and I am thinking their upgraded foam may ease my worries depending on the density of their High Resiliancy foam. I'm still undecided. I hate not being able to sit on a sofa first. ‍♀️ I've just seen some craigslist Axis sofas that look very broken down. But then again, Monarch is smaller, so picture of years old sofas online will be few and far between. Sorry... rambling. Lol Thanks again!

@Salina For the year we had the C&B Axis II it held up exceptionally well. Cushions looked just as they did when new. On the couple of occasions when a spill occurred, the stock Douglas fabric did what it's advertised to do - liquid rolled off and it resisted any staining. I say 'had' because we needed to leave it behind when we sold that much-too-big house for one half the size, tucked up high on a mountain top in California - where we are now. But we did like the Axis so much we're planning to buy a smaller version of it, once the remodel of the new place is complete.

IMO if comfort is a big issue then go sit on sofas until you find one you like , there is no way to guess comfort from a picture.

Thanks As an update to my post below Here are photos of the food tests I dropped Coffee Milk Oil Ketchup Tomato sauce Raspberry jam Onto Taft and Douglas Douglas wiped up zero problem and beaded The Taft absorbed into the threads bc the weave is so wide but there is a backing and barely anything went through to the actual card which would be your cushion in real life Most came out of both fabrics with dabs of Dawn . It was somewhat more noticeable on the Taft but not too bad . I also tested on Taft cement just to see actual residue bc ink color hides it all anyway and it did mostly come up On the Taft tomato sauce was still sorta there On the both oil was the worst offender I did also spray squares with scotchgard and vectra Honestly neither did much difference The liquids still bled into Taft maybe just a little slower but nothing you’d be able to catch in real life with a live action spill The cleaning up was a little easier But they both made all the fabrics a hue darker or dingy I mentioned to the sales woman at crate and barrel and she said do not whatsoever put the protectants on that over time they where off and you’ll continually be reapplying and they will change the fabric and that both Douglas and ink are made to be spot cleaned or steam cleaned and most anything will dab out of them. Her suggestion for tough stain was to clean from the underside and press from too and bottom of the stain. Here are Taft ink and Douglas indigo next to each other I will post the scotchgard and vectra results tomorrow