Sure your sofa might look nice, but is it easy to put together, move to your new place or take apart to fit through our front door? Look for functional extras, like removable and washable covers as it makes maintenance through the years a lot easier.

Investing in a sofa made of quality materials is important, especially if it’ll be going through a lot of wear and tear. Look for high resiliency foams and hardwood timbers in your sofas to know it’ll be able to withstand the test of time.

Durability is tested using the Martindale test (also known as the rub test). A score over 30,000 is considered ‘heavy duty’ fabric, while decorative furniture scores 10,000 or under. To put this into perspective, the Everyday Sofa fabric scores 94,000, so you can lounge knowing that’s durable for life.

Some furniture companies pick sofas from a catalogue to sell whilst others design their sofas from scratch. Always pick those that have designed from scratch. They would have gone through all facets of design and development, including rigorous testing and sustainable material selection to create a high quality sofa to add to your space.