Fabric is the most forgiving thing you can put in a living room: warm in winter, cool in summer, easy to spot-clean and available in more colours, patterns and textures than any other cover. It is where most of our customers start, and it is the largest part of what we sell, from two seaters for a snug to four seaters and corners for a family room.

A leather sofa is the sofa you buy once. Real leather softens and gains character with use rather than wearing out, it wipes clean, and it does not hold dust or odours, which makes it the practical choice for homes with pets and children as well as the smart one for a modern room.

A corner sofa gives you the most seats for the floor you have, and turns the corner of a room into the place everyone gathers. Left- and right-hand configurations, chaise ends and modular pieces let you shape the sofa to the room, and reclining seats, sofa bed mechanisms and storage chaises can be built in.

A recliner is the sofa for the end of the day: lean back, the footrest rises, and the television or the book is suddenly at the right angle. We sell two and three seater recliners, corner recliners, reclining chairs and lift-and-rise chairs, in fabric and leather, with manual levers or smooth electric motors.

A sofa bed is a spare room without the spare room. The test of a good one is whether you would sleep on it yourself, and every sofa bed we sell passes it: proper sprung or high-density foam mattresses on mechanisms that open in one movement, not seat cushions on a frame.

A two seater sofa is the piece that makes a smaller room work, and the natural partner to a three seater in a larger one. At roughly 150 to 175cm wide it fits a bay window, a snug or a box-room lounge, and it is the usual choice for a study, a conservatory or a bedroom sitting area.

The three seater is the sofa most living rooms are built around: between 190 and 220cm wide, deep enough to stretch out on and wide enough for three to sit together. It is the largest part of our range and the one with the widest choice of makers, covers and styles.

The right chair is the most personal piece of furniture in the house: the reading chair by the window, the recliner for the match, the firm high-backed chair that is easiest to get out of, the accent chair that lifts a plain room. We sell armchairs that match our sofas, accent and swivel chairs, reclining chairs and lift-and-rise chairs, in fabric and leather.

A footstool is the most useful small piece of furniture in a living room: a footrest, an extra seat, a coffee table with a tray on top and, in the storage versions, a place for the throws and remote controls. Matched to the sofa it gives a tailored look; in a contrasting fabric or leather it becomes an accent.

Ex-display sofas are the ones that have been on our showroom floor: sat on by customers, sometimes a season old in colour or style, and reduced to make room for the next arrivals. For anyone who wants a quality sofa quickly and at a lower price, they are the best value in the building.