Corner Sofas Offer Flexibility and Impact and They're Easy on the Pocket Too

The corner sofa has only relatively recently become popular again. Originally known as the modular sofa, the corner sofa has its roots in the US in 1944 where it began life as an innocuous original that only a few fell in love with and made part of their home.

Jump forward 30 or so years and you find that this kind of sofa has taken on the 'must have' tag and become the sofa of choice for many new families and independent young things about town.

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So how did this happen? How did 30 years take modular sofas from being an obscure idea that very few knew about to a design classic that everyone buying a sofa wanted?

Well back in the 70s families were just beginning to morph into something other than the traditional 'all sit around the fire' and talk entities. Families were becoming disparate and breaking up, people were beginning to go off and do their own thin. The idea of everyone sitting together around a three piece was being lost. Not only that, central heating was becoming widely available, which lead to bigger living spaces that you could heat far more easily. With the arrival of central heating, open plan living became not only fashionable, but once you knocked down a wall or two, became a viable and comfortable way of living!

How to fill all this lovely new space? Sofa that bent or went around corners, that's how!

The attraction of these modular sofas is without doubt flexibility. The original modular sofas had pod like structures that you could fit together in whatever shape or design you or your living space so desired. Even with today's corner/modular sofas that element of adding to and taking away from a basic structure still endures. Your L shape can be as long or as narrow as you choose or you can bend your structure as and how you feel necessary.

It is this flexibility that makes the corner sofa a great budget buy. You don't have to buy any more pieces of furniture than you can afford or accommodate. Whereas if you opt for a traditional 2 or 3 seater, you're pretty much stuck with the size the manufacturer or the designer offers you, with a corner sofa you have far more choice about what you buy and so you can tailor your budget accordingly.

I mean it's not difficult to find a trusted company offering a wide range of corner sofas that you can extend and limit just as I've described: to fit budget and space. You can choose between either leather or fabric and get a superior product that you'll enjoy for years to come.

Are corner sofas right for you? Well if you have space and you need flexibility, I'd say they're well worth a look.

Corner sofas are here to stay and Designer Furniture designers can offer you first class sofas. Just click the link to find out more about buying designer furniture