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When I started shopping for a new sofa I wanted something that would be resistant to cat scratches. I chose the un-upholstered birch style sofa because our cat loved to dig her nails into the back and sides of our previous sofa (of course in lieu of using her scratching post). Since there's no outside facing fabric on this one however, there's nothing for her claws to latch onto! That immediately solved the problem. She's simply uninterested in clawing at the couch because it's otherwise the same as the floors. The extended life I'll get out of this couch as a result is an immediate win. I also opted for the chaise add-on and I'm glad I did so because it gave her a place to curl up in a ball when the full length of the couch was otherwise occupied. In my house, we'll often find my partner or myself positioned with one of us sitting cross legged on the side with the chaise, the other laying down on the remaining two sections (typically with their feet in the others lap getting a rubdown) and our little fur-ball curled up on top of the chaise dozing away peacefully. This sofa is perfect for this kind of lazing; we love it! I also like that there's more than enough clearance underneath the sofa for our cat to run around. She likes this really big felt blanket for some reason, which we had left over from moving (as an aside, I really recommend getting a large piece of felt for any cat owners, it was like $5 at a moving supply place and is surprisingly versatile. It can be a cat bed, or a little cave if you position it right on the ground), so I've folded it up into a little kitty bed and placed it below the chaise. This has given her another place to hide for a nap! She didn't really claw at the cushions on the old sofa, just the back and sides, so I wasn't really concerned about that when getting the new one. She's similarly uninterested in doing so with this sofa so I can't really speak to the durability of the cushions from a cat perspective, however, I can say that from a human perspective these are very comfortable and easy to take care of. They're very well made and have held up quite well just over the 3 months I've owned the couch. I've taken to turning the back cushions around every few weeks just to make sure they're getting the same amount of wear from both sides (I do this with my cups in the back of the cupboard that don't get much use as well, yes I'm that person). I don't honestly know if that's strictly necessary but it makes me feel like I'm doing my part to extend the life of the sofa. I have only one quibble and it's with the chaise add-on. Sometimes I'd like the option to hide it away, like if my living room is full of people or if I just need the floor space for whatever reason. If I were designing this system, I'd have included the 3 normal, sofa-only cushions and to the chaise section added the fabric that keeps these in place on the sofa, providing an additional cushion for the chaise. What Floyd's done is taken away one normal sized cushion and replaced it with a double length one that covers the chaise side of the sofa in full. Since the chaise is attached to the sofa with some brackets underneath, this makes sense to do as it probably cost a little less because you don't have to add the foam and fabric section to the wood support on the chaise which would hold down a free floating 4th cushion. It also feels very luxurious which I'm sure is what they were going for. I was yammering on about this to my partner and she rightly pointed out that wouldn't make it a chaise but instead just an ottoman which is a fair point. I ordered a chaise and I got a chaise. However, I did buy the couch because it's insanely modular and easy to move. Having another section bolted onto the sofa's base and requiring a specialty cushion seems to undercut that principle in my mind. The other thing this results in is that the specialty cushion this requires doesn't get worn in quite the same way as the regular seating areas. This is probably not even exclusive to this sofa/chaise as well. All sofas are going to get a little divot where you put your butt most often, that's a fact of life. Any sofa that didn't do that would just be a bench. However, in this case one side of the long chaise cushion gets compacted much more quickly than the other because no one makes a habit of sitting just on the chaise end as much as the sofa end. When you are sat on the chaise, you've got your legs out over the protruding end, and your legs just don't weigh the same as your butt. That means this end of the cushion is going to stick up a little higher than the other seating areas because it's not being compacted under the same kind of forces. Having a more mobile and independent ottoman instead of a chaise wouldn't necessarily solve this problem (and it's not really a problem per se), but this would maybe make a little more sense as an ottoman that got occasional use. Again though, I'm the person who rotates their glasses around in a cupboard so take that with a grain of salt. All in all, this is the nicest sofa I've ever owned and I'm very happy with the purchase. It's solid and comfortable, as well as being incredibly easy to disassemble and move when necessary. I'm looking forward to having this sofa for a long time to come and I thank Floyd for filling the modular furniture quality gap where that big Swedish retailer leaves off. I'm happy, my partner is happy, and the cat is happy.

Got the blush round table and love the look of it but unfortunately the table is really hard to keep clean. Had to get it replaced once because I had a glazed plant pot on it that somehow left a big stain impossible to remove. New table is not stained but never looks really clean despite several rounds of the recommended linseed oil.