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Leather sofa owners - help please!

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BlueKangerooWonders · 08/12/2009 11:38

Our cushions always end up slipping off onto the floor! Has anyone got any non-slip (!) cushions - what are they made of?

thanks

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llareggub · 08/12/2009 11:41

Hmm.

This doesn't happen with our cushions, and I have a variety of fabrics. A couple are velvet, a couple are silky sort and another couple are cotton.

Do you have children throwing them onto the floor?

Poledra · 08/12/2009 11:45

Mine always end up on the floor, but that's my ruffians children chucking them there. Then walking all over them. And never putting them back up again.

Actually, are you talking about your scatter cushions or the actual seat cushions for the sofa?

gorionine · 08/12/2009 11:49

are you talking about the cussions you sit on and against of little cussions addes to make it look nice? The seat cushions in mine are zipped onto the sofa frame so they do not fall.

gorionine · 08/12/2009 11:49

Take your pick for the spelling off cushions!

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BlueKangerooWonders · 08/12/2009 14:40

I mean scatter cushions! They slide, I slide and it's a battle to stay on! Having to brace myself is not the most comfortable way of relaxing in front of the TV.

Anyone else?

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llareggub · 08/12/2009 14:49

My leather sofas aren't slippy at all!

Poledra · 08/12/2009 16:51

My cushions don't slide off unless child-assisted. When I think about it, my leather sofas aren't really slippy at all. I have a theory about this - I think it's what they're stuffed with. When we bought ours, the cushions could be stuffed with foam, fibre or feather. We didn't like the foam as it made the cushions very hard and slippy (but was harder-wearing than the others) so our seat cushions are fibre and the back cushions are feather. This means the cushions have more 'give' than a classic foam filling.

This is no help to you at all, is it? I'll wander off and ponder sofa stuffing on my own shall I? Hope someone comes along with something useful to add.....

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BlueKangerooWonders · 08/12/2009 17:32

Thanks Poledra, but our sofa is exactly the same make-up as yours! and everything still slides...

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notsoteenagemum · 08/12/2009 17:44

My cushions are chenille and they don't slide even after I've just polished the sofa.

MrsJohnDeere · 08/12/2009 18:01

Cushions don't slide off our sofa. I think they're made of cotton.

Ds2 does spend all day throwing them off though

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 08/12/2009 18:04

Is it a new (ish) couch?

Fruitbatlings · 08/12/2009 18:18

Our cushions slide off all the time gets on my nerves as I'm constantly having to pick them up. They never stay propped up either. Just end up lying flat on the seat which looks crap.

I will keep my eye on this thread but I don't think there's much that can be done

hippipotamiHasLost77lbs · 08/12/2009 18:21

snort! I was hoping to buy a new leather sofa in the new year, but reading these descriptions of people bracing themselves and sliding off the sofa has left me worried

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BlueKangerooWonders · 08/12/2009 18:45

Fruitbatlings - I'm so glad I'm not alone! After this thread I was beginning to think I was going slightly batty myself!

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thisisyesterday · 08/12/2009 18:55

depends what kind of leather you have. IME quite often the cheaper the leather the shinier it is (this is from much searching for sofas recently!!!)
we tried some lovely ones in the multiyork shop which are made from semi-aniline leather which were just so soft and lovely and not slippery at all.

Fruitbatlings · 08/12/2009 19:02

Our sofa was far from cheap. Certainly doesn't look cheap either yet it is still shiny and slippery

thisisyesterday · 08/12/2009 19:04

ahh but there's cheap and there's cheap,. maybe inexpensive is a better word. anywaty, the nicest one i sat on was around £2000!!!! (hence me now looking at fabric lol)

FourArms · 08/12/2009 19:18

Ours was over 5K (3+2 seater), but our cushions often end up on the floor. Mainly down to the DSs I think though!

thisisyesterday · 08/12/2009 19:19

lol, yes my cushions are also on the floor, but my sofa is fabric! also have ds's... i sense a pattern emerging lol

Fruitbatlings · 08/12/2009 19:20

I stand corrected then. Ours was "only" £1000 - I still feel sick thinking about that kind of money

MissMoopy · 08/12/2009 19:24

Our cushions end up on the floor thanks to dd. But otherwise they are fine. They're a tweedy fabric.

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BlueKangerooWonders · 08/12/2009 20:11

and it is a Multiyork, exactly a year old and v expensive. and dammed slippery.

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thisisyesterday · 08/12/2009 20:14

haha well that's my theory out the window then!!!!

youcantlabelme · 08/12/2009 20:30

Ha, I have recently bought some cushions for my leather sofa (£2500-not cheap for us, but maybe for some MN'ers).

They keep slipping down, they looked l;ovely when I placed them startegically around the sofa-(big five/six seater corner style), but boy, is it proving to be a pain in the .

I thought it may be because I cleaned the sofa properly at the weekend and now the seats all seem really slippery, they weren't like it before-oops, have I done summat wrong?

And on subject of leather sofas, mine is cream so how does one keep it staying cream and not turning a manky grey type colour as have seen before.

Can you have a throw on a leather sofa?

thisisyesterday · 08/12/2009 20:41

won't the throw just slide off too??? lol

i reckon it's the cleaning, just don't clean it

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