Best place to buy a sofa? And places to avoid?

[ShirleyPhallus]

Looking for recommendations thanks, I love fabric sofas, currently have an olive green velvet sofa which I love but looking for recommendations of good, hard wearing sofas

I don’t want leather or Laura Ashley style ones, but more modern looking one.

Anywhere to avoid?

TIA

Yeah IKEA. Bought an ektorp from them 15 years ago, like a pp said it was indestructible, now passed on to someone else with plenty of life left in it. It cost about £250 and was intended as a stopgap but it carried on forever. Nice sweet design as well and withstood multiple hostile children/cats etc interactions. Only replaced it recently as we fancied a corner one and again went to IKEA largely because of the experience with the everlasting ektorp but also because they had a design that suited our, after some examination as it turned out quite specific, requirements ie highish arms, modular so you can add/move/shift as you wish. It turned out to have storage in the extended corner bit which is even more of a winner in terms of space saving. It's more expensive than the old ektorp but really happy with it so far and much cheaper than other comparable models that didn't quite tick all the boxes anyway.

@KatharinaRosalie it's a gronlid that we got as well! Good to hear yours is proving to be hard wearing. Ours is really comfortable so far.

We went with sofa workshop in the end, thanks for all the recommendations

Now, next on the list is a sofa bed, if anyone could recommend one that doesn’t feel like a bed when it’s a sofa but only feels like a bed when it’s a bed that would be a miracle!

We had sofas from ikea lasted 15 years. to be honest they still had plenty of life in them just wanted to change the living room!

We looked everywhere & fell in love with Loaf sofas but just couldn’t justify the price! We ended up with buying from DFS I was worried that the quality wouldn’t hold up etc but so far I’m impressed. Delivery was well communicated. They did make a mistake with the pillow colour, as I wanted something slightly different to what was offered- customer services brilliant and are sending out the correct colour .

@Puppymum2018 same re IKEA. There was nothing wrong with the old ektorp but we wanted a change due to different house/family circumstances and had the money so thought fuck it. My kids and cats battered that thing year after year, it had all kinds of stuff thrown at/over it for close to a decade and a half and it was still the same comfy reliable hard wearing good looking friend it always had been. I hope our relatively new one will be likewise but tbh can't think why it won't be. And at less than £600 it was a steal.

Sofa.com is excellent, great customer service, great range including modern. We bought one from there this year.

Habitat - our last Habitat sofa lasted 12 years and we bought another one about 5 years ago, the latter is still like new.

Sofa Workshop seemed over priced, and tended to be more traditional, plus the customer service, whilst helpful, was very pushy.

We've got ikea in a holiday house and it's holding up very well.