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I Want New Living Room Furniture. Where Do I Start?
Just like every great painting, each decorating project starts with one key visual and builds from there. The sofa, often the largest furniture piece in the living room, can provide inspiration for all of our decorating decisions. For instance, the style and scale of the sofa can help guide other furniture choices, while the upholstery fabric provides the perfect starting point for building a color scheme.
The right sofa sets the tone for the living room’s furniture that reflects its owner’s sense of style and comfort.
So, how do you go about picking the right sofa for you? To start, think about your lifestyle. Is this sofa for the elegant, "we don’t go in there much," formal living room? How about the great room with the big TV and a big appetite for sports, movies, popcorn & fun? Or something in-between, do you have pets or small children? All of these variables should play a part in guiding your decisions.
The sales associates at Hanks, by knowing your lifestyle, can explain fabric choices and styles to take the mystery out of this decision.
Consider the fabric coverNow more than any other time you can buy what were beautiful but expensive fabrics at a fraction of that cost. Not only that, the fabric mills have become more technologically advanced and are now creating those expensive fabrics with more durability woven into the fabric. So between the new wearability factor in the fabrics and the Guardian fabric care products offered by Hanks, these sensational fabrics that were expensive and delicate can now be enjoyed by the most active family.
Beautiful, sensuous, fabrics are back in living room furniture because of the affordability. Intricate weaves such as satins, damask’s, tapestries and brocades are now regularly used as marvelous accent pillows, giving the sofa a very expensive look. Natural fibers such as silks, linens and cottons are also high on the list of sofa “chic.”
One of the most amazing advances in fabric manufacture is an innovative spinning technology that has created micro fiber. Micro fiber’s popularity can be attributed to its ability to repel moisture and its strength and durability. The fibers are so small that they can be tightly woven together, and as a result prove to be a perfect fabric for “lived on” sofas.
"Please, have a seat"
That's the only way to tell if the sofa or chair you're considering is the one for you. Choose the feel that pleases you and matches your needs. Most important, if the seat isn't comfortable, don't buy it. We have short sofas, long sofas, sleeper sofas, elegant sofas and casual sofas. Contemporary sofas, traditional sofas, sofas that have deep seats and sofas that don’t.
We have the sofa that you are looking for. So come see us, try them all, and see which one will find a home in your home.