How pratical is a leather sofa with 2 under age of 4?

dora37

taxcollector wrote:

We have chocolate coloured sofa from m & s. My 2 year old has written on it with biro which I managed to get it off. To clean it you just use damp cloth. Brilliant quality & cannot recommend enough.

We have 2 M & S chocolate brown sofas - only had them a year though - however with 2 teenage boys and a 5 year old, they still look brand new.

Definitely go for a quality leather - it makes all the difference!

1jim

we have two cream/light beige coloured sofas from ikea, have had them approx 2years, have a 2year old a 8week old, love the sofas, easy to clean...just wipe sick/regurgitated mil etx off it, can be wiped/cleaned with baby wipes instead of leather cleaner
Have never found the sofas to be cold in winter and havnt really found them to be sweaty in summer
I would go for leather everytime, much easier to clean than fabric ones
jim

jackkelly

Thanks everyone going to keep this bumped up so that my husband can read it later. Cheers

Penny_Watcher

dora37 wrote:

Definitely go for a quality leather - it makes all the difference!

It's the quality of the leather that does it. Apparently they've invented machines that can spit a skin/hide into 2 or 3 layers now. Some of the cheap leather sofas are of shockingly poor quality.

We've had a chocolate brown Italian leather suit for about 5 years now. It if fantastic! I have two dogs, a mucky mountain biking husband, footy mad son and daughter who misses her mouth when eating biscuits etc. The sofa particularly gets very messy. Even I've dropped a cup of milky coffee on it :eek: A quick wipe down with a damp cloth and it looks as good as new. Try that with a fabric sofa!

We've never had the cold in winter - hot in summer thing

I suppose the heating is on in the winter so the sofa is always room temp, and in summer there is no direct sunlight onto the suite and there is a through draft from the front windows to the patio doors.

I would never EVER go back to a fabric suite.

md123

In 2000 we went to buy a new suite. I went into the shop determined I was having a fabric one and not a leather one as I felt they were cold. The shop assistant recommended the leather one, as we had a young daughter, telling us it would last a lot longer.

I ordered a blue leather one and I have never regretted it. It cleans better and I just use baby wipes to clean it. I definatly would never go back to fabric.