A Modular Couch Is Worth It. Here’s Why

A sofa is 1 of nan biggest investments you tin make successful location decor, and nan past point you want is to make nan incorrect choice. A bully sofa will beryllium pinch you for a decade, and it should not only beryllium comfortable and look great, it should besides person nan versatility to accommodate to your needs successful caller spaces and seasons of your life.

You should see a modular sofa. That's nan benignant that comes successful individual pieces you tin propulsion apart, put backmost together, and rearrange to suit immoderate you fancy. Usually, you tin alteration nan colour of nan screen without buying a full caller couch. And erstwhile moving time comes, you won't request a squad of 3 aliases 4 well-built movers to get it retired nan aged doorway and into nan caller one.

I’ve been starring our sum of nan Best Couches for years, and galore of america connected nan WIRED Reviews squad person tested much than our adjacent stock of different variations connected nan living-room seat. Modular couches are nan measurement to go.

Switch Things Up …

If you move aliases recreation frequently, a modular sofa is easy to return apart. No much playing Tetris successful nan U-Haul, trying to fig retired really you're going to bring your aged sofa to your caller place. And it’s besides easy to reconfigure. Say you’re moving from location and you get a caller desk, and you request nan chaise information of your sofa to look a different direction. You don’t request a caller sofa, and you don't request to wholly rearrange your surviving room—you tin conscionable reconfigure your existing modular couch. Or possibly you get a caller java array and you don’t for illustration really agelong your sofa is successful comparison. Remove a seat. It’s that easy.

That's what precocious happened to WIRED Reviews squad head Martin Cizmar, who bought a caller location and recovered that his caller surviving room is functionally narrower than expected because of a ample aerial registry connected nan floor. Because he had nan modular sofa from Koala, he simply removed 1 of nan seats to move it into an L-shape and put nan other conception up successful his attic for imaginable early use.

While location are a batch of standard, rectangular, boxy options, you tin besides play astir pinch different fabrics and silhouettes. One illustration is nan Castlery Auburn Performance Fabric Chaise Sectional, a modular sofa pinch a fluffy, spill-resistant bouclé cloth and a bubbly, modern silhouette.

Modular couches tin besides travel successful useful if you person unconventional surviving arrangements. Do you unrecorded successful a seventh-floor walk-up? A modular sofa comes successful galore boxes alternatively than arsenic 1 gigantic package—you mightiness person much steps to woody with, but you won’t person to fork complete other rate for white-glove delivery, nor will you person to person your friends to maneuver a sofa up respective flights of stairs, cursing astatine nan banister and scraping their knuckles connected constrictive hallways. No ruined friendships because you said “To your left” and they tilted nan full sofa successful nan incorrect direction. No thrown-out backs aliases removing doors from hinges. I’ve gotten a fewer modular sofas delivered to apartments pinch stairs, and I was capable to get them into my flat by myself. (And, if your stairs beryllium many, you’ll only request to seduce 1 friend to thief you out—not a bunch of them positive a truck.)

…Again and Again

Modular sofas connection further elasticity erstwhile it comes to configurations. You tin make them an L-shaped sectional, a U-shaped sectional, aliases a accepted consecutive line. You tin take heavy seats aliases shallower ones, and location are a ton of different upholstery finishes ranging from durable pet-friendly capacity cloth to chenille. You could get a sleeper sofa aliases 1 designed for mini spaces. Most of them travel pinch removable, machine-washable covers, and immoderate moreover person other bells and whistles—like built-in retention aliases a measurement to complaint your phone. The Lovesac Sactional is afloat modular—we're successful nan process of giving it a dedicated review—and you tin adhd StealthTech to it, which gives it speakers, a wireless charging pad, and a subwoofer. A location theatre successful your reconfigurable couch, complete pinch reclining seats? It's much apt than you think.

Modular couches do thin to beryllium much costly than modular options, but nan convenience often outweighs nan first finance cost. For a modular sectional sofa, I find that it’s amended to spell with, astatine nan bare minimum, a modular three-seater sofa and an other portion specified arsenic a chaise lounge. That measurement you tin move things around, but you won’t beryllium stuck pinch excessively galore further seats, and you should still person room for an ottoman aliases a java table. Of course, if you want to spell pinch an oversized eight-seater, you tin do that too. There are immoderate genuinely gargantuan modular options available, for illustration nan Cozey Ciello XL. You tin moreover opt for an outdoor sofa, for illustration Outer's Teak Outdoor Loveseat, which comes pinch a built-in screen to protect your patio furnishings from nan elements.

And while they do thin to beryllium expensive, location are still immoderate comparatively affordable modular sofa options if you're connected a tighter budget. The Albany Park Kova has been an honorable mention successful our buying guideline for a mates of years, and it costs nan same—or little than—similar couches that aren't arsenic customizable.

The agelong and nan short of it is that a modular sofa is mostly akin to your standard, stuck-in-one-shape couch. You'll still get a coagulated warranty. You'll still get high-quality, high-density representation foam cushions, plush backrests, and comfortable backmost cushions. You still person nan options for coagulated wood frames and stain-resistant fabric. But astatine nan extremity of nan day, if needed, you tin alteration things up—something that's only easy to do if you person a modular sofa.

If you're successful nan marketplace for a caller couch, we've sewage plenty of recommendations successful each shapes, sizes, and styles. You mightiness besides beryllium capable to sojourn a section showroom—or simply pester your comfy-couched friends astir nan marque they chose. (Let maine cognize what it is successful nan comments!) And if you want nan champion of nan bunch that'll guidelines nan trial of time, you'll see a modular sofa.

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