Sofas and Living Room in the Foshan market

The frame is the sofa, the cover is the dress

Most sofa chats on a showroom floor focus on cloth shade because cloth is easy to touch and price. Yet the inner wood frame decides whether that sofa still feels rock solid five years later.

Ask what wood builds the frame and ask to see a cut block or workshop photo. Kiln-dried hardwood is the gold standard, and solid larch or pine works well at sharper price points.

Lecong has a neat advantage here: specialist wood shops supply kiln-dried frames to many booths, who then finish them with chosen foam weights, down toppers and leather or bouclé covers. Once you know that, you can specify higher-grade foam and cover on the shape you love.

Three two-minute floor checks

Sit right on the front corner of the sofa, not the middle cushion. Corners show right away how rigid the wood rails and corner blocks are.

Press firmly along the top and side of the arm with your palm. You don’t want to feel bare board; it’s thick, even foam wrap over the wood edge that lasts.

Lift one end slightly to feel real timber weight, and you’ll want to unzip a seat cushion to check the neatness of the inner overlock seam.

Seat foam weight is the number to write down

Ask for the seat foam weight in kilos per cubic metre and put it on your order sheet. High-resilience foam at thirty-five to forty-five kilos keeps its bounce long after soft low-weight foam flattens out.

Test the seat at the start of your hall walk and sit on it again before confirming your order.

Packing sofas smartly for your container

Sofas take more cubic space per dollar than almost any other item. Unscrewed legs and split sectional backs gain real room across a forty-foot box.

Ask how the booth wraps sofa arms and corners. Thick foam corner guards under five-ply cartons keep leather and pale bouclé spotless all the way home.

Questions on sofas and living room