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How to measure for a sofa that actually fits
The commonest reason a sofa goes back is not the colour. It is that it would not go through the door. Measure three things before you fall in love with anything: the wall the sofa will sit against,…
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Firmness, honestly: what soft, medium and firm actually mean
Mattress firmness is not standardised. One maker's medium is another's firm, which is why the same person can buy two "medium" mattresses and hate one of them. We rate ours on a five-point scale and…
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Looking after performance fabric without ruining it
Performance weaves are treated to resist staining, and the treatment is what most people accidentally strip off. Blot, never rub — rubbing pushes the spill through the weave and past the treated…
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Why we still use eight-way hand-tied springs on some frames
Sinuous springs are cheaper, faster and perfectly good. We use them on most of our range and we are not embarrassed about it. But on the deep-seat frames, where the seat is over 24 inches and the…
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Furnishing a narrow living room without making it feel like a corridor
A narrow room fights you in one specific way: the obvious layout — sofa against the long wall, everything else facing it — makes the room read as a passage. Break the length instead. A pair of chairs…
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Making a dining table work when it is also the desk
Most dining tables are 29 to 31 inches high; most desks are the same. The problem is not the table, it is everything around it. The chair is what fails first. A dining chair is designed for ninety…
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