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I once paid an arm and a leg for a suite made by the original Schriber group back in the late 70s, I had it recovered twice, but each time it was becoming as expensive to be done as a new suite would cost. In the end our eldest daughter scrounged it off us, and kept it until it became thread-bear once more. We then bought a Celebrity branded suite, which at the time cost about the same as a recover would have done, but the quality simply was not there, and after about a year the seat cushions became flattened and rather uncomfortable, so we then had to 'pump' it up by buying some separate foam seat cushions and covering them with a plain toning fabric. Its this suite that our next youngest girl has just taken to her flat with her, and we are left sitting on a couple of recliners out of our dining room until the new Harveys settees arrive mid May.

My point is though, that after buying expensive in the past, we have come to the conclusion that we do like a complete change every few years, so no point really buying a suite that cannot be disposed of on the grounds of high cost after about 10 years of wear, better to buy something more reasonably priced and be able to chuck it without too much guilt, although most of the time one of our offspring will be sure to snap it up for free!

Julia  

We've bought our last couple of suites from DFS - we actually like the fact that, after about 8 years, they really need replacing. My in-laws had a 20-year old sofa - looked flipping horrible, no matter that it was in a great condition!

Our current one is only 6 years old but still fine - it's leather and our cats have made a few scratches in it, so we've been back to DFS but can't decide on a new one.

The interest-free offer is genius - a new sofa for £20 a month? No-brainer...

Quote: Originally posted by nelmo on 22/3/2013

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 The interest-free offer is genius - a new sofa for £20 a month? No-brainer...

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Lazyboy was the brand we had 10 months of problems with, think their products are made abroad, when all got sorted we went with G-Plan made in this country

Hi Vectratrot i was told this morning that a lot of G Plan is now made in China,

i took my dining chairs to a upholsterers this morning to see about getting them recovered their  G Plan and cost me £1200 for 6 leather chairs. The upholsterer actually told me that the leather chairs were made of reconstituted leather which is basically the sh*t bits of leather all glued together which also means that they are only about 30% leather

The leather started to peel off after 2 years bear in mind these are the dining chairs so only get used every blue moon as we have a large table in the kitchen, when i phoned G Plan they just werent interested. I actually spent just over 3 grand on  G Plan furniture for our dining room i can assure you they wont get another penny now.

Bessie