What makes a sofa last for years, can't ALL be seen on the outside, It is what's on the inside. A hardwood frame, glued, screwed, doweled. Eight way hand tied springs beneath the cushions. Cushioning in spring down, ( springs inside the foam, followed by a layer of wrap and a layer of down ) or other options with quality foam and wrap. Don't forget quality tailoring and finishing of upholstery, fabric options, ability to customize as well. YOU WANT this Pottery Barn,, and with no ottoman it's 3200.00.
Or you could have Hickory Chair..........and.............see below
Or you could have Lee..............
It depends how much you want to spend. A Hickory chair sofa will be double that Pottery Barn. Lee will be at 50 % more.
Just know that the price of a good sofa thirty years ago, from any quality brick and mortar..........whether it was Century, or Hickory Chair, or Hickory White, or Henredon, or , or
was NOT less than 2500.00 dollars. Does anyone believe you can buy that same quality today for three grand or less? No, they don't. What did your car cost? : )
Note too, that from ANYONE or anywhere, a single seat cushion is much harder to maintain in terms of stability in upholstery and wear. Especially for something you will sit on every single day.
Quality manufacturers know all about this, including dirt lines at the bottom edge. And it is one reason you will find fewer that look exactly as the PB sofa you covet. Which is good looking junk, for as long as it lasts.
If a Pottery Barn looked good for two years ,at 3k you pay 1500.00 a year. If a Hickory Chair looked good for eight years......at double? You paid 750.00 per year. And had a better lookimg, more comfortable sofa for all those years as well. That's the brutal truth of sofas. Or I could lie.
Just the other day, a client of mine who has owned her Baker ( the Cadillac of sofas) sofa for eight years, and five homes , moving yet again said: They "want all my furniture, I told them they CAN'T have my sofa- no WAY am I letting that go, just no way." I plopped myself down, gazed at her and said......"you're right. It's a keeper: )"
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