High Quality Affordable Sofas: Models, Prices and Features
Convenience is priceless. This is why it always seems incredible to us being able to spend little by buying affordable sofas and sofa beds that are also high quality.
The ever growing online market, as well as the proliferation of chains and discount stores of home and garden furniture, offer every possible model of sofas and sofa beds, including corner sofas, at much lower costs than what we are at used to.
Are these perhaps poor products, sold below cost, or are we dealing with real bargains? The answer is one and only one: It depends. We don’t want to leave you in doubt, you just need to know how to choose and take advantage of those bargains and offers for quality cheap sofas that are hidden in the multitude of products to be avoided absolutely. Let’s try to clarify.
Choice of materials
First you have to look at the materials. We are in fact lucky today to have access to new high-performance fabric available at lower costs compared to the past. Eco leather, aluminum and microfiber are perhaps the clearest example.
Faced with relatively low production costs, these materials offer decidedly sought-after and appreciable qualities. Eco leather is extremely wear-resistant, washable and pleasant to the touch. An eco-leather sofa can be cheap but it will not lose its qualities over time.
Aluminum, on the other hand, is a material which does not rust and does not undergo corrosion but still remains extremely solid and resistant. Microfiber, on the other hand, is elastic, washable and soft while having the best resistance and durability synthetic plastic fibers. If we will find a cheap sofa with similar composition, we will know that it is a quality economic sofa.
New production technologies
It is not just about the “ingredients”, the “recipe” also has its merits. The last few decades have seen breakthroughs upon innovations in the production field and this is why costs have also been reduced for the consumer.
Many of the most famous brands take advantage of these innovations to release sofas that cost only slightly less than traditional ones and maybe spend the difference in advertising and marketing.
The production techniques are always the same in this globalized era and often the difference in price between a sofa from an established brand and one of a lesser known brand is all in the cost of advertising and maintenance of a production commercial system. “You pay for quality” is less and less true today.
New distribution channels
A range of new opportunities are offered by the web; this allows buyers to be in direct contact with producers at no cost of mediation. In this case the markups are reduced to a minimum and you can get your hands on full-fledged quality sofa for cheap: there are no extra costs to be charged to the buyer. On the contrary if we find our sofa or sofa bed in a “wasteful” context we are perhaps going to meet hidden markups that have nothing to do with the quality of the workmanship. In conclusion, you need to know how to evaluate.
If the cheap sofa we are considering has been produced with materials that are both cheap and high quality – such as those listed at point 1 – we may already have the suspicion that we are facing a sofa that is affordable but good quality. However, if we are faced with high brands advertised on traditional distribution channels we must ask ourselves what are we actually paying and evaluate if the price was unnecessarily inflated.
The market for sofas and furniture in general is still playing with the prices of the crafts at which we are historically used to and many tend to keep the prices higher simply to give the illusion of an artisan quality that has long since disappeared.
