Been so busy lately chasing clients that I haven't had much blog time. I very recently visited what must be my 100th brown leather sofa. Why does everyone looking for a pet friendly, comfy couch go for a brown leather sofa? It is not the be all, end all perfect solution for a great room.
Now, I agree that you must consider a few factors when looking to purchase a nice sofa. Let's discuss them in detail, so we're all on the same page:
1. Size Matters- You not only have to make sure that your couch will fit your wall, but you have to take into account positioning and traffic flow. Sure, your wall may be 10' wide and your sofa is just 8' wide, but where is your tv? How do you enter the room or exit to the adjacent room? If your sofa is facing your television, you do not want traffic to have to pass in front of you while walking in the room. You also don't want them to have to walk by you as they go to the kitchen. Try to position your seating so that your traffic can walk behind the pieces. If your pieces are too large in scale to push them forward, perhaps a shallower sofa is needed in the space, or a way to break up the traffic pattern. Let's look at the example in the upper right corner.
What's wrong with this floorplan? The television is in the ideal spot for the room, but the bulky, heavy furniture setting is overcrowding the look and the traffic flow from the room on te right has to pass in front of the sofa, even the coffee table and around to exit to the next room behind the sofa. I think it's instictive for people to automatically want to align a sofa against a wall. And there are times when this would work, just not here.
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