Sofa Ideas That Will Transform Your Living Room

You’ve found the right article if you just want some ideas for sofas that will improve your life as well as your design style.

Who cares about nonsense names?

You don’t need to know about Lawson-style or the Cabriole.

Research suggests the average price of a sofa is up to $2000.

This is easy so let’s get on with it.

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The Sofa With Legs

A lot of the popular interior design styles today use sofas with raised legs.

Mid-century modern, Scandinavian, and even some Bohemian hoist you off the ground.

Let there be light.

Let there be air to breathe.

Raised legs allows both under the sofa and make the room feel larger.

It’s likely you live in a small apartment in the city.

Wouldn’t you love to feel like you’ve been bumped up to first class? Feel like you’re in the penthouse suit without having to spend more time in the elevator.

Sofas with raised legs are usually smaller.

If you live in a warmer climate without air con, you’re less likely to become part of the furniture as you melt into it.

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Ok, great.

The sofa with legs is sorted.

Now let’s get onto the sofa without legs.

The Sofa Without Legs

If you’re blessed with a large living room then making it feel cozier is going to be your priority.

Enter: the sofa without legs.

The biggest have sections.

Years later, scientists will debates the name of these sofas long into the night.

Sectional or Modular?

The term Sectional gets the nod today.

Sofas without legs are usually longer, wider and and deeper.

If you wake up, migrate to the sofa and then nap for two hour with Spirited Away on the TV then these are the sofas for you.

Celebrities love to show off their homes that would once have been mistaken for castles. Often, this is the type of sofa they’ll have for entertaining their well-known friends.

You’ll be able to move the sections into whichever configuration you please in time for your work colleague to spill half a glass of red wine on the cushion and you to lose your shit.

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Do you have a sofa as comfortable as that?

Time to look at the celebs’ favorite.

The TV Show Sofa

Go to any barber shop and you’ll find one.

Any TV show with an open plan kitchen-living room and exposed brickwork running through from the hallway.

Yes, you’ve guessed correctly.

The brown leather sofa.

Browsing brown leather sofas leads you on a path of discovery.

You don’t know how many different types there are until you sit down at your desk and begin clicking away.

The more battered your sofa is, the better.

It’s been called vintage.

Speed up the process in the same way you would tenderize a chicken breast.

Hit it hard until the leather softens and loses some of its color.

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Awesome.

This next sofa is one you’d see in an English Country style setting.

The Sofa With Dimples

Get the Cuban cigars out, it’s time for the dimpled sofa.

Better known as the Chesterfield, you’ll be able to read leather-bound books whilst sipping whisky and thinking about geo-political structures across the globe.

These are educational sofas.

You won’t be able to nap on them, they’re typically accompanied with a firm cushion.

If you have a thing for velvet, Chesterfields one of the only styles that are commonly upholstered with the material.

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Wondering what the sofa in friends was called?

Well you’re finding out anyway.

The Friends Sofa

You’ve reached the all-rounder in sofas.

The English rolled arm.

Tightly packed with enough cushioning to feel comfort after a four mile post-all-butter-popcorn-walk around town.

Stylish without aesthetics being the sole benefit.

You’ll be able to tell the same friend who spills half a glass of red wine on items of your furniture that this is the type of sofa that features in the Central Perk in Friends.

Then you can endlessly quote it as those of us who haven’t religiously watched it smile and nod as we silently will you to be quiet.

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The You Sofa

As if by magic, mission accomplished.

You’ve reached the end.

Which sofa suits you and your living room?