If you have children in your home, what sort of sofa should you
choose?
With kids in the house, you probably need more seats. A 1 seated
sofa is not as cost effective as a 3 seated sofa. You need 3
single seated sofa to seat 3 people as compared to just a
3-seater. The price of 3 single-seated sofa is significantly
less than the price of a 3 seated sofa.
That means, for a large family, you would save substantially if
you go for the 3 seated sofas as compared to several 2 or 1
seated sofas.
One way to see the best value is to calculate cost per seat of
that sofa.
For a single seat, the cost per seat is just the price.
For a 2-seated sofa, the cost per seat would be price divided by
2
For a 3 seated sofa, the cost per seat would be price divided by
3
and so on.
The best value would be the sofa with the lowest cost per seat,
everything else remaining the same.
Next, consider the dirt factor. I mean, kids, with their
tendency to jump on the sofa, would dirty the sofa very quickly.
Not only that, they would eventually break the springs in the
sofa. You could train the children not to walk, jump or play on
the sofa. But it is wiser to get a sofa set that can withstand
the stresses a kid would bring.
For one thing, the sofa would get dirty very quickly. A darker
color would be more practical. Leave a white sofa in a home with
naughty kids and you'll end up with a gray, or eventually black
sofa over time. Dirt shows up so obviously in a light colored
sofa. On a dark colored sofa, the deep color hides the gray or
black dirt stains. You don't have to clean it so often. It will
still look good months later.
Eventually, you still have to clean the sofa.
Our first sofa was a beautiful fabric sofa. It turned a dull
gray over the years. As there were no slip covers, we would have
to wash the sofa with an
upholstery cleaner or to leave it be. On the
hindsight, sofa sets with removable slip covers would have been
the better bet.
Alternatively, we could have bought 2 sets of slip
covers for our sofa while it was still new and rotated those
to protect the sofa instead. Slip covers can be washed, so you
can always have a clean sofa to sit on. To a busy mom with kids,
slip covers are a boon. Dump the soiled slip covers in the
washing machine and slip on clean covers.
Our next sofa was a leather
sofa. That turned black within weeks. The kids would pretend
to be Spiderman climbing the walls, with the sofa as the wall,
or Spiderman jumping from roof to roof, with 2 adjacent sofas as
the roofs. We bought a leather cleaner to clean it up. I wrote
about that experience in care of your leather sofa.
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