| A sofa is a type of cushion furniture meant for sitting or lying.
The word "sofa" belongs to the Arabic world, which means clerical office. The Arab chancellery's walls had been attached with small cushioned benches. Sofas came from the Ottoman Empire to European culture in the 13th century.
How to select a sofa?
First, let us find out why we need a sofa:
It is a trivial question and answers to this can vary a lot. Someone wants to sit and some may have to sleep on that.
In the finest houses of Paris, it was customary to sit on chair, lie on a couch and sleep on a bed.
But we do everything on a sofa. So it is necessary to select a sofa with utmost care and consider the factors such as reliability, comfort and style. We need to select a sofa in such a way so as not to regret about that bloody spring which disturbed your last night in a very intimate private event of your important negotiations.
The sofa should perfectly fit in the general design of your home. Sofas and grand round chairs with wooden arm pads or decorative laps would fit with a classical interior with wall cabinets, cabinets and book shelves. For modern interior decoration appropriate articles of easygoing, elegant design without any additional ornaments.
Even before going to shop, one should sort out the space constraints of the room where the sofa is to stand. It is important to decide the location of sleeping places on the sofa-parallel or perpendicular to the wall. For instance, a sofa with “euro-folding” or a “click-clack” mechanism, one has to sleep along the wall, and in models like an “accordion”, camp-cot or draw-out bed one has to sleep vertical to the wall. If a very simple and user-friendly cushion sofa is needed, one needs to stick to the “euro-folding” or “click-clack” mechanism.
A no least important point for everybody is how much wall is protected from dirt when it is touched while we are asleep? In several models like the “euro-folding”, there are special welts meant for precautionary measures. For the same reasons bed-heads exist, which protect the wall from dirt and also support the pillows. |
