Having finally decided to shift our old futon upstairs into the spare room and get a sofa, the next step wasn’t as simple as I thought it might be. First off, inheriting or finding second hand stuff is more luck than judgement – how long can you wait for the right sofa to come along/become available? Basically we got sick of waiting and looking and decided to burn some cash on a new sofa.
That brings up it’s own issues. I’d not realised that the frame is made of hard wood. Typically I would assume this means tropical hardwood but getting information about sourcing of the timber from high-street shops is very difficult. dfs in Cambridge hadn’t got a clue and weren’t very interested in looking into the issue for us. MFI had nothing we wanted but Sofa Workshop were much more pro-active. I’ve yet to fully substantiate their claims, but apparently their hard wood comes from sustainable East European beech (mainly) and they were keen to discuss the concept (made a refreshing change).
