Go to leeindustries.com. They have a fabulous selection of sectionals. The website will let you know who your lee dealer is in your area. I have a sofa and a loveseat from them. They are the most comfortable pieces of furniture. We will be purchasing a sectional from them soon. We got our furniture at Circle Furniture in Massachusetts.

Check out Palliser Furniture. They offer top grain on all of the insides where your body will touch and vinyl on the parts you don't touch like the outsides and outback. If you shop at a discount retailer you should be able to buy the reclining loveseat delivered for under your budget. Palliser is viewed as average to above average quality and they make an excellent motion piece that comes with their warranty.

Their is not too many upholstery manufacturers left that is still using solid hardwood frames, stick-built as it was know in the industry. And fire retardant foam is still being produced for commercial market to meet Cal 133. With foam fabricators using both non-fire retardant foam along with fire retardant foam their will be instances where these foams get mixed up in the fabrication process, so their is no guarantee for the upholstery manufacturer that the foam they receive will never contain fire retardants. Some upholstery manufacturers like us and Bernhardt have signed agreements with foam fabricators that if at anytime we receive a shipment of foam and that if any one piece of foam has FR chemicals they will pay a very hefty fine. You will much more likely to find VOC's in leather or leather like materials, especially imported from China or India. Most woven fabrics contain little if any VOC's once they reach the cutting room table. Residential fabrics use a silicone base stain protection, which I have not see any studies linking this to any VOC's. Plywood is not nearly as bad as it use to be, as far as VOC's. Formaldehyde type glues are now being phased out for more safer glues. Majority of the upholstery manufacturers use a polyester base fillings, which is a inert substance and pose little if any VOC's. A sofa consists of either wood / plywood, metal, cardboard, polyester, nylon, cotton, foam and then the cover material. So theirs really not that much that goes into building one that is considered hazardous to anyones health, with the exception of FR chemicals and formaldehyde.

If you can afford to spend a bit more Stickley makes top notch stuff and if it matters to you it's all made in upstate NY. The people out at Stickley and Audi in Framingham are vey helpful (maybe a bit too pushy to start with) and it's just nice to walk around. Stickley has lots of options and styles and you'll get a well made sofa.....their leather is fantastic. I've bought some Stickley furniture over the years and I enjoy it's beauty every day.