Dear LPG,

Here is a problem that I am sure I share with many others of all ages.  I suspect three and a half months of lock-down had something to do with it because all the time I have spent looking at the same environment day in and day out has brought me to a realisation.   The more I looked at my living room during that time the more it occurred to me.   I came to a decision that it needed a visual face-lift although I could not put my finger on what was wrong.  Just before the Covid-19 crisis I had the whole room decorated so I decided that it could not be that even though there was definitely something tired about what I could see. I finally decided that I needed a new , even though I tend not to sit on them anymore.

Isn’t it funny how, once you have decided on something new, you seem to only see adverts for that particular product between your favourite television programmes?   The adverts all seem to focus on the size, colour and depth these days and even though I prefer to sit on a higher chair myself, a living room without a sofa just does not look right.

I took a look around the internet in an attempt to work out what criteria one should be using to choose the best sofa and found some alternative points that we should look at.  I learned quite a while ago that my back and sitting on a sofa is a recipe for pain and I suspect that many years of sitting on badly designed but beautifully made sofas have something to do with it, so I asked Google for some advice.

I was quite surprised at some of the alternative factors that, the internet offers as important variables before you make your settee purchase, and wanted to share because although I have thought long and hard about the colour and design I would like to see, I think that I should be mindful about what the effect that sitting on it will have on my guests’ future back problems and, even though the advertisers seem to be sending us the underlying message that, when it comes to sofas - bigger is better, there really is more to it than that; and I haven’t even started on getting it into your house or how much free space for just walking around it will be left once you have it in your living room.

I hope that the links below might help…

LY, Catford

LY shares advice on sitting comfortably from the health point of view…

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…even if you are going to move it in yourself, the practical point of view…

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…and the long-term point of view…

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