In the past couple of months my parents have replaced both of their living room sofas. Out went the camel back sofas that I remember picking out with them years ago and in went some beautiful tufted sofas. We didn’t want a matching set of sofas so we ended up purchasing sofas from two different sources. One from overstock and one from Home Decorators. Here was our experience with both.

The first sofa we purchased was the Lakewood Tufted Sofa from Home Decorators.This was a Christmas gift for my parents and I ended up picking it up when it was 30% off, which was a steal, but then adding taxes and the large shipping price of $165 we ended up at around $1,000. I placed the order and had the sofa was  hand delivered within 10 days. It was delivered in one box and brought into my house. All we had to do was slip it out of the box and enjoy. Win, win.

We all loved the tufting. I love how set in all of the tufts are. It really makes it look so fancy and high quality.

All of the seams were perfect and overall it was a wonderful sofa at a great price point.

My Dads birthday is in the beginning of January and guess what my Mom
Dad decided would be an amazing gift? A new sofa to finish up the living room. So, out went the camelback loveseat and in went the Dune side tufted sofa from Overstock. We didn’t want a matching set so this sofa was perfect for our needs. It had similar lines and tufting, but the tufting was on the sides. We went with a neutral tan because we didn’t want to get something in a color like the first sofa and have it not be a perfect color match and have it look off. Best part about Overstock was the free shipping on a sofa!!! With my coupon code the sofa came up to $598! Worst part? Yup, that meant the sofa arrived in 2 boxes and had to be put together.

A spent around 2 hours taking everything out of the boxes and using an Alan key to put in what seemed like a million bolts. Was it easy to do? Pretty much. Was it annoying? YES! I did it all by myself except when I needed a little help aligning the sides. I’m not handy at all and I was able to do it. I thought Jon would be super proud that I tackled it on my own and he was, but he also mentioned that his drill had an Alan key bit and if he had known I was going to tackle it without him he would have mentioned that to me to make it faster. Whoops!

Overall we were happy with the quality of the sofa. It was like the picture and really pretty and comfy.

{ I wish the tufting was set in a little bit more like the Home Decorators sofa, but overall it’s still a really nice detail.}

My only complaint was the back side of the sofa. Due to the sofa being in pieces you needed to get to the underneath and sides of the sofa to attach bolts, which means you have velcro seams on the sides that lift up so that you can get in.

Along with the velcro at the bottom corners of the backside you also have the seams of the sides/arms on that are more predominant on the backside. Is it horrible? No, but I do notice it and think how much more I would like it if it could as one big piece.

Overall everyone is super happy with them and the living room has a totally different look that didn’t break the bank. Would I buy a sofa again that needed to be assemble? Probably not. It wasn’t that much more to get something ready made. Time is precious and I could have used those 2 hours of assemble to tackle other things on my to-do list.