Leather Sofa Buying Guide
Genuine leather sofas are noted for their comfort and durability, with workmanship that surpasses most fabrics. Today's leathers are fire- and fade-resistant. Leather defies rips and stains, and the seams of leather furniture are constructed to resist tears and splitting. Leather has the amazing ability to keep its shape, and actually becomes more beautiful with age. Each leather sofa is unique due to the leather's characteristics (grain, scars, wrinkles and color shade variations), making your sofa selection one of a kind.
Your decision to purchase a leather sofa puts you in a class of luxury seekers, and labels you as sophisticated and a connoisseur of style. Before you buy a leather sofa, research the basics of leather: the features and advantages or disadvantages of full grain, top grain, split leather, aniline, pigmented, painted, and antiqued leathers, and the overall advantages of owning leather. Learn the sofa style and grade of leather that best suits you and your lifestyle.
Leather Furniture Types
Close your eyes and picture yourself relaxing in your new leather furniture. Do you see yourself melting into an overstuffed leather recliner, or are you more the leather club chair and ottoman type? Picture the perfect leather suite: are you sitting on a leather sofa of formal high fashion with clean lines, or reclined on a leather sofa that hugs your body as you sink into its softness, or perhaps you have decorated with a pair of matching leather loveseats? Now, let's move on to your home theater.
What Are the Best Leather Recliners & Chairs?
Leather chairs are durable and grow in beauty with years of use. Leather creates a classic style that is versatile and ageless. Leather chairs come in a variety of styles and include recliners, club chairs, and accent chairs. Leather is warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and it withstands normal wear and tear from children and pets.
Decorating Dos and Don'ts
Oh, that we could all afford the talents of an interior designer to commend our achievements and slap our hand before we fall face-first into a decorating blunder. Leather is versatile, and requires balance, and above all, when decorating with oversized leather furniture, less is best.
Decorating with Leather Furniture
Express yourself through the colors in your home. The clean, casual lines of your favorite leather sofa, leather loveseat, leather chair, and leather ottoman can go from simplistic to majestic with earth-tone accents, splashes of color, and accessories that dare to be bold. Your leather furniture can just take up space, or it can come alive.
