My Flexsteel sectional has metal clips so the two pieces hook together. It's on a wood floor but it's against two walls so it's not going anywhere (it also weighs a ton). No recliners; we plan on a cat sometime soon and I once injured a cat by trapping it under the recliner when I closed it up, so I swore I would never own a recliner again. We did choose to use a larger coffee table because we needed the surface space, and the coffee table that had fit the regular couch just fine was too small for the sectional, both visually and functionally. Regarding measurements, our sectional sits in a corner against two walls. I simply measured the two walls and allowed a bit of space for small end tables, then hunted down a sectional that fit those measurements and wasn't too bulky for the room. Small-scale sectionals that aren't just two loveseats stuck together or a couch with a chaise stuck on (I find it very difficult to get out of the chaise) are not easy to find, but they're not ALL ginormous! Ours is something like 90" on one side of the "L" and 110" on the other. If you plan to "float" your sectional, get a roll of blue painter's tape and map out where your sectional's going to go, right on the floor with the tape, until the proportion looks right and then measure that; if you have the standard sofa-loveseat combo now you can shove them together into that space and get a rough idea of scale. The biggest "pros" in our house are that it wastes no space in our small living room - when we had a couch and loveseat, there was a substantial area in the corner that was wasted (furniture arms take up a lot of space) and we couldn't both stretch out to watch TV, read or nap while now we can and still have room for the dog. :-) The main con is that it IS a little bit heavy-looking for the small room, although cut-back arms, a relatively low back, and a slightly-bland midtone sage color do reduce the visual weight somewhat.

Some people, especially newbies, accidentally post in conversations when they have a question about faucets. Every now and then, as seems to have happened in your case, a moderator blows through and snags threads that don't have kitchen stuff in the title and tosses them over the fence. Your laundry question looked kitchen related enough to me, but the title didn't. If very few people are blathering back and forth in a thread, and it moves fast and hangs out on top, it'll also get bumped over, even if it is mostly about something kitchen related. Rightly so on that one, because it basically is a kitchen conversation, rather than a general discussion.

I think I’ll leave it like this for awhile - maybe a skinny sofa table behind it like you suggest. Beats buying a new couch when we have two other rooms that will be used more often and that need to furnished.... Definitely looks more intentional and not “oops it doesn’t quite fit” lol THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUGGESTIONS! Thank you for your compliments. I’m going to start another thread on suggestions for taking the exterior victorian look out of the 99 build.... we want it to look more craftsman!

Lazboy is always a safe bet, custom fabric costs more and when i was looking, lead time was at least 16 wks.