To think that sofa throws are utterly pointless if they don't cover the arms?

[bananacrepe]

The arms are the bit that get the muckiest, usually! Why can I not find a throw wide enough for my not-that-big two seater sofas??
Does anybody else have this problem or should I just resort to frilly antimacassars?

for the life of me I can't work out what throws on sofas are about anyway

they get all rucked up... and YOU CAN'T SEE THE SOFA

what's the point of buying it in a particular colour, fabric etc if you can't see it?

(I can understand covering a horrid sofa but even then I wouldn't because I'd hate that rucked up stuff going on)

Nooo, sofa throws are a full time job, we had them for years covering rubbish sofas and I must have spent days of my life readjusting them, then as soon as a child / dog sits on them for a second they rumple and slide off, and somehow that makes the whole room look a mess. Thank GOD now have new sofas that still look ok even when someone has just got up from it.

ditch the throws if you can, OP.

they're a necessity if you have kids and a nice soft i bought arm covers to go on the sofa but got a really large throw from ebay, have you tried ebay?

a nice sofa not a nice soft

Springy some of us have shitty sofas that we don't want to look at!

I actually throws but after spending days trawling round furniture shops for a nice coloured sofa to match the rest of the living room I had to give up and but a cream one

Throws annoy the heck out of me but a mucky sofa that I couldn't clean would annoy me more!

That should say I actually HATE throws. Although give my frustration, I 'actually throws' cushions too

charity shops? re 'new' sofa. I'd go to extraordinary lengths to avoid putting a throw on a sofa. Can't be doing with that throw situation at. all.

you are totally right. the throw should cover the entire sofa, including the arm that are the first thing to get grubby. i was never more excited when we got our ikea sofa with removable, machine washable covers. my DP didn't see it that way, he hates ikea and didn't have to keep the bloody thing presentable.

springy chances are that if you can't afford a new sofa then you dont have a car to collect a 2nd hand one...charity shops dont tend to sell sofas anyway.

YANBU, that's why the old fashioned sofas had removable arm covers - so you could take them off and wash them. There is no way throws are big enough - i sriously wonder what te point of them is.
Would a very large bedspread cover your sofa? Say, king size?
Oh and antimacassars are actually the things that go on the back of the sofa, not the arms, to protect the sofa from bryllcreamed (sp?) hair. I only know that cos my gran had some!

YANBU, totally agree