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| Secret 1 - Will the furniture fit my room? |
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Best is to measure your living room carefully and ideally, produce a rough sketch of the layout,including doors, windows etc.(If you wish, our sales consultants will be pleased to help you draw out your room and furniture on our room planner, to help work out what best fits your needs).
There are many possible sofa combinations. The most popular currently is a 3 seater & 2 seater sofa set.This gives the same amount of seats and take up less space than a traditional 3-Seater & 2-Seater sofa set. This gives the same amount of seats and take up less space than a traditional 3 Seater and two chairs. Corner groups are increasingly popular and it is surprising how space saving they can be. There are lots of different combinations possible. Most important is whatever works best for YOUR living room!
One thing to watch is not to order too many sofa pieces. Too many items in a room can make the room smaller than it is. You can always buy more later. |
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| Secret 2-Interior Decorating Secrets |
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| If you want an eclectic look, you should mix different styles and colours with several accessories, this will give a lovely warm feel to your living room. For a designer look, it is typically the opposite approach. Best is to keep the room relatively uncluttered and normally minimise the colour palette to about two or three colours. Always important is detail, with ideally the legs of the coffee table coordinating with the legs of the sofa etc. |
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| Secret 3 - Sofa quality? |
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A fairly basic test – you lift the sofa from one of the bottom edges to feel the weight of it. In general, the heavier it is, the better the quality- as there is more wood used in the frame construction.
For the quality of the fabric, the key is wear ability. Knowledgeable salespeople should be able to tell you about the wearability of different types of fabric and its ‘rub test’ soore.
When it comes to the sofa’s spring system, sinuous wire or S-type springs are the standard. You should feel the springs when you push down on the sofa.
At Cost Plus sofas, our head of buying has a background of over 20 years experience in the furniture industry. We will not buy from any worldwide factory before we fully inspect them- whether in Italy, the U.K., South Africa or China. |
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| Secret 4 - Leather Quality? |
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A surge in efficient manufacturing processes have brought down the cost of leather. It is a surprisingly practical material. Leather now adoms sofas at prices once reserved for vinyl look-a-likes.
Leathers are graded by the size, location, and the severity of the natural a blemishes that are a part of all hides. There is no uniform grading system between the thousands of sofa manufacturers worldwide. This means that one manufacturer’s category 5 can be another supplier’s category 5000 and so forth. The most practical test is a simple one. It is to feel the quality of the leather between your fingers. The more soft and buttery it feels, the higher the quality.
Here is a detailed explanation of leather types:
Aniline leather is soaked in aniline dye. It does not have other finishes applied. This leather is superbly soft. Most aniline leathers have visible markings, such as wrinkles and scars. These leathers will develop a beautiful lustrous patina with time, and are best suited to luxury use.
Semi-aniline leathers have a small amount of pigment, giving them slightly better protection against stains and fading.
Pigmented leathers are the most popular due to their high protection compared to other leather. Although this gives a slightly stiffer feel, they have more uniformity of colour and provide the test resistance to fading, scratching and staining. In other words, the ideal choice for rough-and-tumble family use. |
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| Secret 5 - Leather Of Fabric? |
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| Each has its own advantages. Leather is unbeatable in that it is more difficult to stain {except aniline and semi-aniline, as discussed above} Fabric is great in that it is superb for comfort. It is really a personal choice…depending on your preferences and lifestyle, such as whether you have kids in your house a lot and want the ease of maintenance of leather, or if you love the soft comfort of fabric! |
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| Secret 6 - Phoney Discounts? |
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| Some retailers advertise fake half price offers. We do not infiate the price for a few days or suggest we will increase it after an event just to show a phoney 50% off! |
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| Secret 7 - You should focus on the sofas and not a high maintenance showroom? |
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Cost Plus Sofas is a low overhead business, We do not spent money on carpets or expensive ceilings. We simply keep the focus on our sofas and offer you the best value designer sofas, at prices hundreds of euro less than you would pay elsewhere for this quality and fashion. Our cost structure is modeled on the discount airlines. Our simple aim is to give you designer sofas at discount prices.
In the highly unlikely event that you find any of our sofas cheaper elsewhere, we will be glad to refund you 110% of the price difference. |
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| Secret 8 - Fabric and leather protection? |
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What about those fabric protection plans most retailers offer?
Unless you‘re covering the sofa or chair in plastic-get it! I know some people feel that it’s not needed. Ideally you should look for a protection plan with a warranty. Many of these plans will also protect you against accidental protect your furniture form everything, but it’s a great start!
Fabric sofas the chemicals used bond with the fibers in your fabric, without changing the look or feel of the furniture. So with this treatment, it’s much easier to remove accidental stains and you will receive a five year guarantee.
Leather sofas leather is a natural product. So, much as for our skin, it is important to keep it moisturize, to prevent cracks. A leather protector applied monthly to a sofa is great ‘preventative maintenance’ and keeps that lovely ‘new’ leather small. |
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| Secret 9 - How quickly do you need delivery? |
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Typically sofas manufactured in Italy take approximately 8 to 12 weeks and longer if from Asia. This applies for us, as for every sofa retailer worldwide.
At Cost Plus we have large stocks of a few or our bestselling sofas, which we can deliver immediately. |
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| Secret 10 - Standard of delivery service? |
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One last point – you can tell a lot about a furniture retailer by the standard of delivery into your home. If not delivered professionally, a sofa can be damaged, or worse, damage can be caused to your house.
There are typically two main standards of furniture delivery service in the business:
Dump and Run.{this is the term used!} Sofas are carried into your house, often to the room of your choice. Sofas are left wrapped and unassembled.
Gold service,After placing sofas into the room of your choice, all wrapping is removed and legs attached. If any recliner chairs, these are assembled. You then check that all is perfect before we leave.
At Cost Plus Sofas, we give the gold service, We are a young company and want our clients to be delighted…and maybe recommend us to others!
We hope this guide helps you – and that you find your perfect sofa! |
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