Sofa sets: Your experiences and recommendations of manufacturers

We also ended up with Freistil - the quality seems very good to us there and it is manufactured in Germany.

However, in our inventory there is still an Ikea sofa bed that is over 10 years old (I can't remember the name right now) which is used a lot and I don't think the quality is bad at all. Friends of ours recently bought the second couch from Ikea for their living room and are very satisfied with it.

In the end, it is certainly a question of price and taste...

... a few furniture stores, ....
... when sitting on some sofas, I could already feel the inner construction.

Did you take any sofa or can you recommend a manufacturer, .. .

Referring again to your first post, Sabine
I assume you have checked out the usual furniture stores. And when you talk about the inner construction, I also assume you have tried the mid-displayed “noname” sofas to take away.
Which is not a problem though: if I’m looking for something cheap (under €1200), I buy it there, based on looks and comfort, not on durability.

If you buy Rolf Benz, you spend about 10 times as much. I can’t say how durable they are.

As I said, a Schillig corner version also costs 3-4000, depending on where and what equipment. We bought ours between Christmas and New Year with a big discount and were happy with the price-performance ratio. However, you can see the upholstery’s 6 years now, but not the design. Still modern.

Before that, we had a Schillig leather sofa: also acceptable after 8 years, but we didn’t like leather anymore. It was slippery, you stuck to it in summer, and in the beginning it wasn’t cozy. But definitely washable for kids [emoji6]
By the way, light leather suffers from jeans fabric: it bleeds dye.

Personally, I also first look at Höffner, Kraft and co., but mostly just to tick the box.
Then it goes to Hamburg and surroundings to the more specialized stores, which don’t have single items, but not so mainstream, rather more classy, yet not too expensive due to the store concept.*
Afterwards, it goes to Ikea. I would probably buy my next one there - the price-performance ratio is right there, and the seating areas are a bit more generous. And the thing doesn’t have to last forever anyway.

*Over time, however, I have created a mental list of individual stores that vary in upholstery, cabinets, or lamps. The latter works well online, upholstery furniture does not at all.

Stressless, enormous quality and incredible seating comfort. We sold our old set after 8 years (NP 7500€) for 4000 and got ourselves a new one. Sure, it is very expensive but withstands everything... And by everything I mean many children and animals. And one thing Scandinavians can do better than anyone else: simple design

We also have Schillig, but which brother, I don’t know at the moment.

But it is actually a matter of style. What do you have in mind?
Filter yourself here ;)
Where should it fit, what is your style?

The couch should be modern and above all have at least 67cm seat depth. Today we were at Polster Aktuell and there they had a sofa from W. Schillig with 70cm seat depth and box spring construction, which was really very comfortable, but a few centimeters too long. The problem is that most sofas only have about 56cm seat depth, which is too little for us. It should not be leather either, as that is too cold for us. We will now search further and see what else is available from Schillig, it is supposed to be quite good.

Best regards
Sabine

Leather is usually not cold, or it becomes warm after 5 seconds. In summer, I find it worse when it has properly heated up. I also have 2 stressless armchairs. After 5 years, the leather is a bit more wrinkled than at the beginning, but otherwise there is indeed no wear. In the living room, we have a leather sofa with box spring bed and Longlife leather. It is mega comfortable, but I don't remember the manufacturer anymore. After 2.5 years, I still dare not make a long-term prognosis.

It should not be leather either, that is too cold for us.

Leather is usually not cold, or rather, it gets warm after 5 seconds.

It is not cold... yes. As "warm" as the room. But that is not enough for comfort. It just feels cold and has a cold tactile sensation. That's why I always say, also here:

It was slippery, in summer you stuck to it, and at first it is not cozy either.