Armless Sofa, Loveseat
and Daybed Options for Seating by Comfy 1
We can make armless sides for our
sofas, loveseats and chairs with lines somewhat similar to those
of our Virginia model, in many different lengths to order and
with many custom options.. This option can be ordered either for
completely armless furniture or also for just one armless end on
a couch or loveseat.
If you want furniture with minimum
bulk but maximum seating or lying-down space, this has obvious
advantages. The overall length of an armless sofa in our
construction is only 1 1/2" longer than the total width
(length) of the cushioning.
For daybed use,
or for stretching out: Our furniture can be well adapted
for these purposes, in the following ways. (1) If space for
furniture is limited, you can choose a relatively short sofa or
even a long loveseat with one or two armless ends, and a
reclining occupant's feet and/or the top of his head can extend
off the end a bit without significant sacrifice to comfort. You
can even use a shorter armless loveseat (or armless at one end)
combined with one of our ottomans to make a bed of good length.
(2) Our seats slope backward about 1" from front to rear;
to level them out, we can sell foam levellers, or you can use
towels, newspapers, etc. below the rear half of the cushions to
serve the same purpose. (3) Our standard or firm foam seat
cushions butt against each other closely enough that most people
can't feel any separations when reclining on them (especially
when the cushions rest on our standard padded wood base);
but if you prefer, we can also make a long one-piece seat. (A
very long cushion has some disadvantages: Fewer
alternatives for flipping the cushions over in case of wear or
stains on one side of a cushion, greater likelihood of wrinkles'
being left behind after someone gets up from the sofa, and
greater shipping expense.)
One important purpose ordinarily
served by arms on a sofa or chair with loose cushions is to keep
the cushions from shifting around with use. With other armless
sofas on the market, this problem might be taken care of by
making some or all of the cushioning to be fixed in place. But
this means that cushions can't be turned over and rotated, which
drastically reduces the expected life of the fabric and filling
compared with a sofa with loose cushions. In our construction, we
use loose cushions but keep them in place by means of
3/4"-thick wood at the sides, coming up the edges
sufficiently to prevent outward shifting during most normal uses.
If you'd like to have an arm at
one end but not at the other end, we can accommodate. The San
Fransisco customer who ordered this sectional was very short of
space at one end of the sofa but not at the other.
As shown here, armless sides can
be placed at one end of each sofa, loveseat or chair in an
L-shaped arrangement, and a 30" or 32"-square table
(just slightly lower than the seat cushions) can be placed in the
corner, to make a different kind of corner arrangement. (This
picture was taken years ago, when our cushions were less rounded
and the Virginia model arms less curved than they are now.)
Our armless sides can also be used at one end of a separate
sofa, loveseat or chair made in combination with our other arm
styles at the opposite ends. We can also place the armless ends
at both ends of a sectional sofa.
Lengths and Pricing of our armless
or one-armed sofa models: When reading these prices,
please keep in mind the major long-term savings that result from
owning this furniture (explained below) as well as the value you
receive from the customization, hand craftsmanship and specialty
designs we offer.
If you want an armless end at one
end of a sofa, loveseat or chair, subtract $75 from
the price of the regular model.
If armless at both
ends, the base prices are as follows: (these prices
include our standard 33" frame depth, 10-15 fabrics, a
fabric-covered back, and the 31" height: (10%
discounts are available: See below) Sofas: 74"
- $1660; 83" - $1840; 92" - $2050.
Loveseats: 50" long - $1465; 56" - $1555;
62" - $1645. Chairs: 26" wide - $985; 29"
wide - $1045; 32" - $1095; 38" - $1245.
These prices include 10 to 15 base-priced fabrics, a
fabric-covered back, the 31" back height (measured floor to
top, shown in all pictures above), and any of our standard wood
finishes. There is a huge selection of high-quality fabrics
available within $150 above the base price for a sofa, or within
$100 above the base price for a loveseat. (If precise
measurements are important to you, be aware that the above
measurements are all rounded off; the actual
lengths are 1/2" less than the lengths quoted.) The 33"
height adds $2 per inch of base length. A 35" height
adds $4 per inch of length. For a 30" frame depth,
add a one-time charge of $200 for non-sectional pieces,
regardless of how many are in a complete order, or $350 for one
or more sectional sofas); for a 36"
frame depth, add 25% to basic price. For a webbing
suspension, for softer support, add $1 per inch. The back can be
covered either with the same fabric as on the cushions or with a
matching vinyl, or an all-wood back is available for $2 extra per
inch. Toss pillows or arm pillows are $40 per pair, plus $0 - $20
or so for fabric. If you provide your own fabric, the price would
be reduced by $40, $30, or $20 for a sofa, loveseat, or chair.
Delivery in the D.C. beltway-Charlottesville-Richmond area would
add $65 to $90, packing and shipping to the U.S. west coast would
add 19% of the base price, and delivery or shipping to
other locations in the contiguous 48 U.S. states and southeastern
Canada would be somewhere in between depending on distance from
north-central Virginia. We do not presently charge sales tax on
orders shipped via common carrier to points outside Virginia
(although legislation is pending that could, at any time, require
us to collect other states' sales taxes). Special lengths:
Add $90 to the price of the next longer length, or (for
extra-long) add $350 plus $16 per inch to the longest standard
size.
Armless sectional sofas: The lengths
shown below are the standard lengths for either side of a
two-sided sectional. But we also make custom lengths (add $90 to
the price of the next longer length, or add $350 plus $15 per
inch to the longest standard size). A normal sectional requires
choosing two of the lengths (and prices) shown below. Note
that the same corner section (and half
of its cost) is included in each length.
53 1/4": $1395; 57 1/4": $1445; 60
1/4": $1515; 63 1/4": $1565; 69
1/4": $1665; 81 1/4": $1765; 87 1/4":
$1865; 93-1/4": $1965; 105-1/4": $2060; 114-1/4":
$2240; 123-1/4": $2470. Note: If your space if
very limited, keep in mind that molding at the base of many
walls, will keep the sectional away from the wall an inch or so.
Fabric charge if applicable: Add $15 per "+" level
for 53" to 69" sizes, $25 per "+" level for
81" to 93", and $35 per "+" level for
105" to 123".
Options: See options above, counting 53" to 59"
as a loveseat, 81" to 93" as a sofa, and 105" to
123" as a sofa + a chair.
Three-sided sectional: For the side that will be in the
middle, add 30" and $400 to any size above.
Discounts /completion times: Our standard
completion time, for orders at the list price, is five to six
weeks.* If you can wait as much as six months, we deduct 10%
off the base price of the furniture. But, to repeat, our
standard completion time is five to six weeks. Since our sales
levels fluctuate considerably and unpredictably, we offer
discounts to customers who don't expect their furniture soon.
This provides a backlog of orders to keep our people working
during lulls in sales levels; and it allows
easier handling of the full-price orders when we have a surge of
them, since worker hours can be diverted from long-term orders at
those times. If we don't have surges, the long-term orders come
through early, but the customer still gets the full discount.
Better advance knowledge of what we'll need to produce also
allows us to order supplies better, to hire and train at a
moderate pace, and to group our work into efficient batches of
similar products.
These products will usually be less expensive than ordinary
furniture in the long run, especially if they are given heavy
use, because they don't wear out like typical furniture. With
solid oak at locations where ordinary sofas usually wear out
first, and with our wide selection of heavy-duty fabrics (that
aren't normally available on residential seating), our furniture
will usually look good long after ordinary furniture has become
shabby. When our furniture eventually needs new covers or
cushions, replacing them is relatively easy and inexpensive. For
more details on this subject and on the costs of our small-scale
custom manufacturing, click here.
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If you would like to put two of our armless or one-armed
pieces side-by-side, you need to be aware of the fact that the
armless wood sides are each 3/4" thick, so that there will
be gaps between the cushions, which can be dealt with as shown
below:
People often put a "throw" over the back of a couch,
as a decorative accent piece, and a throw could be placed so as
to hide the gap between the back cushions. And we can make a gap
filler ($10) to go between the seats that should usually stay in
place reasonably well, although with loose items being sat on,
nothing can be expected to stay in place well at all times.
In place of a throw in a contrasting color to go at the back,
we would also make something out of the same fabric, although
most upholstery fabrics don't "drape" well; the
stiff-looking appearance of the same fabric might look more out
of place than a contrasting fabric that lies down well.
Gaps and unevenness between the pieces might be larger than as
shown, since they might be resting on surfaces that are not
perfectly flat, or one part might be on a rug while the other
part is off the rug.
A sectional arrangement made from an
armless or one-armed piece butting against a separate sofa or
loveseat has a few special complications:
1) If you want the front
corners of the three seat cushions in the inside corner of the
arrangement to align reasonably well (as opposed to having
unaligned corners as shown at the right), the cushion in the
corner has to be the right size: 30" wide.
That is the size that would come with one of our 64"
loveseats (or 71" loveseat in the Virginia model), or with
our 94"/101"-long three-seat sofa.
Of course, if you don't mind lack of alignment of cushion
corners at that location, there's no need to be concerned about
the above limitations.
The optional back cushion that you see on the right side of
the corner in this photo is specially shaped to go in that
location, to become about even with the tops of neighboring back
cushions (despite the fact that it sits on a higher, rounded part
of the seat). Because of the required special work that we seldom
do, we have to charge $110 for this cushion (which we call the
"level high arm cushion."
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2) Our seat cushions slope backward from the front, to provide
the slight angle for the seat that most people find to be
comfortable. Where you have the (sloping) side of one seat
coming up to the (level) front of a neighboring seat,
there will be a height difference of about an inch at the rear of
the seat (see at left and above). This unevenness will be
somewhat smoothed out by the presence of a gap filler there, as
long as the gap filler stays in place.
3) With our Florida, Virginia, or New Jersey models, the normal
curvature at the ends of the front rails would cause an irregular
apearance if the end of one front rail comes up to nearly meet a
middle section of another front rail (see below left). For $20
extra per complete order, we can make all front rails in a
5-1/4"-high, straight-across construction (below right). The
front rails for California and Maryland models are automatically
straight across.
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