Choosing new seating for our living rooms should be a joyful affair, shouldn't it? Because sofas are fun, aren't they? They're colourful and squishy and where we enjoy cuddles and cups of tea, family movie nights and sneaky snoozes. Yet it can be a deceptively hard task – namely because there are so many sofa buying mistakes to fall foul of.
That showroom excitement can quickly dissipate when your new sofa arrives and you find that it swamps the room, or isn't the colour you expected, or immediately becomes one giant cat-scratching post. Or worst of all, it doesn't even fit it through the door.
