Steve Sechrest, COCOCOHome – Co-founder, Charlotte NC
There is just something about sectional sofas. It can divide space. It can provide maximum seating. More than anything it exemplifies “family”. It is where you live. Where your kids grow up, where lessons are learned. No wonder then, so many people are attached to having a sectional couch as the focal point of their living room. At COCOCO we make Fabric Sectional Sofas and Leather Sectional Sofas in a dizzying array of configurations and in any of our unmatched selection of fabrics and leathers.
First let’s get past what we won’t do. Reclining sectional sofas. Ok, we got that out of the way. Just about anything else a possibility.
We have a number of core styles such as our Brevard, Lexington, Monroe, Durham, and Matthews Sectional styles that come in a range of custom sectional sofas. We can make three piece sectionals in “L” and Corner sectionals in a huge range of dimensions. We can make plush “U” shaped sectionals in five piece sectional configurations. All of these can me made using a Radius Corner Wedge at a traditional Square Corner.
The way we scale our fabric or leather sectionals is perhaps unique in the furniture world. The size of the corner pieces and the arms is a constant. The variable we use to create such a range of elegant sectionals is the cushion size. We make cushions for these sectional styles in 24″, 27″, 30″, 33″, 36″, 39″, and 42″ widths. by varying the cushion size we can make the same configuration to create small or large sectionals. We also make these pieces in three depths so we can create a small apartment sectional or a deep loungy sectional. This creates unmatched flexibility in scaling and designing a distressed leather sectional or a contemporary fabric sectional.
Durham Square Corner Fabric Sectional 128 x 128 x 42 in Chartres “Malt”
Similarly, we can use the same process to create 2 pc sectionals in a Sofa Chaise sectional configuration. The seat of the chaise can be widened in those same increments to create a wide two-person chaise or narrowed to fit in as a small apartment sectional with the corresponding Sofa piece retaining proportionality to the chaise. Put a Chaise on each end of an Armless piece and you have a Double Chaise Sectional which is available in any of our styles.
Monroe Double Chaise Fabric Sectional in “Como Jade”
Tufted Sectionals such as our Classic Chesterfield Sectional or Arden Square Cornered Tufted Sectional which is an example of a Mid-Century Modern Sectional, or our Weddington Tufted Sectional or Eastover Sectional built off of our English Arm Sectional platform are handles a bit differently. The geometry of the tufting dictates the available increments so, for example, a Classic Chesterfield Sectional with a radius corner or Classic Chesterfield Sectional with Square corner will be available in 5.5″ or 11″ increments because the 5.5″ tufting pattern requires that to be the case. Cushion sizes are 27.5″, 33″ 38.5″ and 44″.
Soho Chesterfield Radius Corner Leather Sectional 117 x 117 in Bronx “High Plains”. The Soho style requires an 11″ tufting pattern.
It is important, if at all possible, that all of the cushions be interchangeable from one side of the sectional to the other. For example: say you were designing a custom leather “L” sectional in our Traditional Chesterfield Sectional style with a Radius Corner and your optimal length for the longer side is 117″ that could be achieved with the corner and a right or left arm facing piece with two 27.5″ cushions. Now say the short side, you could go up to 100 inches you could get there with a 38.5″ seat cushion on that side, but it would be better to stop at 89″ and have the same 27.5″ cushion on the short side as used on the long side. In this way the cushions are interchangeable and the visual proportionality of this beautiful leather sectional is maintained.
That brings us to one of the most important concepts to keep in mind when designing a sectional sofa. All sectionals will have a left and a right side. When describing a sectional, the orientation is always determined from the perspective of someone standing in front of the sectional looking at it. Never from the perspective of someone sitting on it. So a corner sectional would be said to have left and right arm facing pieces of equal length. An “L” Sectional would have one side that is longer than the other side. Using the Chesterfield sectional example above, if the longer side was to be on the right, then the two cushion section would be designated as Right Arm Facing (RAF) and the Left side of the sectional with one seat would be “Left Arm Facing (LAF).
When you are ready to start designing your perfect custom sectional sofa, the best way to start is to measure your space and try to figure out what dimensions would be optimal to fill it, and then which style of sectional you prefer. From that, we will be able to help you scale one of our sectionals to your specific needs. No one can do that better than COCOCO.