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Sara Hesikova

How many cushions should you have on your sofa? Experts share the golden rule of getting it just right

A pink-painted living room with a cream 4-seater sofa with five patterned cushions.

Arranging a few scatter cushions on your sofa is one of the best ways to make your living space look cosy and stylish at the same time, while also injecting some extra colour, potentially pattern and texture variety at the same time. But how many sofa cushions should you have so that it doesn’t feel like too little or too many?

That’s exactly the question I’ve asked several sofa experts as I, myself, have been wondering this since I’ve been adding more cushions to my own best sofa with the start of autumn in an effort to recreate some of the cosy living room ideas I’ve come across.

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