Good Quality Sofa's

Peter Diffey · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:10

Lo' all

Interested in purchasing a black or dark brown leather sofa (2 seater and 3 seater), DFS Land of Leather etc are very poor quality right?

How about Ikea, Argos?

Any recommendations of places to invest money in a quality leather sofa

Cheers
Diffs

EDIT: Sposed to be in GD, please move

Andr3w · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:11

Hmmm, what 0-60 speed you look at for this sofa? Budget?
You wanting something sporty or practical?

Phil W · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:15

Make sure it has Service History and MOT

Jon Frost · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:29

Phil W said:
Make sure it has Service History and MOT

loki101 · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:31

make sure you HPI it.

knip · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:33

And you will need to declare it SORN, if you dont intend to use it on the roads.

DB_SamX · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:47

Sofas

G18241 · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:49

got ours form land of leather, just go have a feel at them, you can tell if they are rubbish quality of not, some of the ones we felt were like rubber, but there were some really nice ones as well, really need to just go round and have a look

schnipps · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:55

Barker and Stonehouse, John Lewis, Fenwicks basically for good stuff. DFS, SCS Land of Leather for cheaper stuff no where near the same quiality but about 1/3 of the price.

pitchfork · 29 Dec 2007 at 17:24

Land of leather, cheap, good quality sofas.

Dr House · 29 Dec 2007 at 17:27

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Shimmyhill · 29 Dec 2007 at 18:01

Argos sofas are cheap Chinese tat, even DFS budgets would be better !

CyZMyAssBaby · 29 Dec 2007 at 18:09

Shimmyhill said:
Argos sofas are cheap Chinese tat, even DFS budgets would be better !

For the win

WHAT!!! · 29 Dec 2007 at 19:46

I think the 2 leather chairs and 2 seater leather sofa we got from land of leather aint to bad really, they are recliners and think it came to like £1300 for the lot with extra warranty thing if they become damaged for 3 years which was £150 i think on top.

I would'nt ever buy sofa's from argos though as we was with out decent furniture in the living room for over 6 months as we had 2 lots delievered to us which had faults and we then selected something which cost more and was a pretty nice set but we only got like the 2 chairs and the 2 seater became discontinued apparantly, we got messed about so much so just got our money back and went to land of leather and got one delivered in like 3 week's which came fault free.

I would never recommend argos for things like that as the experience we had and the fact its always an advantage to see the sofa's in person before ordering as you'll only need to pack it back up if you dont like it which is a pain in the butt.

sare^baw's · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:18

go to reids i have a very good dark brown sofa and i got my previous one from them asnd i would recommend you have a look

CyZMyAssBaby · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:22

http://www.english-sofas.co.uk/

GarethDW · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:26

My mother's John Lewis sofa is very nice. Definitely wasn't cheap though.

What budget do you have in mind?

Duke · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:36

Make sure you try out a few different ones, as there is a huge difference quality (usually price too

). I thought I found a nice one in B&Q or somewhere but after trying another in a specialist (in Bath), there was a massive difference!

Peter Diffey · 30 Dec 2007 at 00:05

Dont mind spending a lot of the quality is right, im glad that it is agreed that dfs etc are poor quality.

http://www.english-sofas.co.uk/

Any comments about the above website and sofa's they sell?

Also, are the shiney ones easy to slide of off?

MagicBoy · 30 Dec 2007 at 00:13

I was looking at the same sort of thing this time last year. Best of the retail park chains was Furniture Village, then Harveys. Land of Leather, DFS, SCS didn't seem to be built to the same standard.

My Mum swears by MultiYork - their's cost an fortune (3k+. Built to a very high standard with all sorts of custom options.