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Practical guidance on leather, frames, sizing and styling, written by the team who build and deliver the sofas.
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How to Clean a Chesterfield Sofa: Some Top Tips
Want to know how to clean your chesterfield sofa? Don't miss our latest blog here at Distinctive Chesterfields!
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Vintage Charm: 5 Homes Doing the Trend Well
Whether your home is modern or traditional in style, you can still add some vintage touches to it to add interest to the property. After all,
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Distinctive Chesterfields’ Spring Cleaning Life Hacks
Embarking on a spring clean? Distinctive Chesterfields recently put together a survey to discover how people in Yorkshire and beyond clean their house; the results are
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Home Cleaning Ingredients You Already Have in Your Kitchen
Want to give your home a thorough clean this spring? Take a look at our natural cleaning tips for a job well done.
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Maximise Your Living Room with These Top Tips
Want to maximise your living room? We tell you how, thanks to our handy guide here on the Distinctive Chesterfields blog.
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Preparing Your Home for Winter: Some Tips
With the colder weather in full swing, it won't be long at all until we're abandoning evenings out for nights spent in front of a roaring
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Key Interior Trends: What’s in Store for Autumn/Winter 2015
It's hard to believe that we're almost at the end of summer already. Not that we're wishing the warmer months away, but there is something quite
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
How about a corduroy sofa?
It may well be referred to as the 'poor man's velvet', but we say when done well, there's no reason why a chesterfield sofa or chair
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Want a Union Jack Chesterfield Sofa?
While we realise this is an interiors look that isn't for everyone, there's no denying that union jacks - or rather, union flags (they're only 'jacks'
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
On the Couch with…Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Psst! Did you know we're due to open a brand new, sparkly chesterfield sofa showroom in London? It'll be located in Clapham Junction and it'll contain
How To Guides
How To Guides
Guest Post: 8 Tips for Great At-Home Entertaining, by Elizabeth Rago
It's summer, which aside from the promise of beautiful weather means one thing: party time! Whether you're planning a family barbecue, or an indoor get-together with
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Five Ways with Flowers
So, the weather may not always be beautifully sunny here in the UK, but we can certainly pretend it is - thanks to the power of
Handmade Heroes
Handmade Heroes
Handmade Heroes: Meet Supriya of Jasmine White London
It's been a couple of weeks since we last posted a 'Handmade Heroes' post, in which we interview someone who makes a living creating something lovely
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See the leather and fabric in your own light
A hide or a weave that reads warm under showroom spots can turn cool beside your own walls and windows. Hold it against the room before you decide.
- Five leather or fabric swatches posted free
- Advice from the team who cut and stitch them
- A written quote whenever you want one
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Our bestselling Chesterfields
The pieces our customers come back to most, each available in any of our leathers and fabrics.
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Screens lie about color. Order five swatches and see them in your own light before you spend anything.
Before you buy
Questions we get asked most
The things people ring us about before they order. If yours is not here, the workshop is happy to talk it through.
Eight to ten weeks from the day you order. Every piece is built for you rather than pulled off a warehouse shelf, so the frame, the springs and the hide all start after your order is confirmed. That includes shipping to the US, and we absorb the tariff. We keep you posted at each stage and book the delivery date with you.
Yes. Almost everything is adjustable: overall width, seat depth, arm height, foot style and finish, and whether the back is deep buttoned or plain. Tell us the room and we will tell you what will and will not work in it.
Leather wipes clean and ages into a patina. Fabric is warmer to sit on and comes in far more colors, but needs the right rub count for daily use. We will send swatches of both so you can compare them in the same room before deciding.
Send us the width of the narrowest doorway, the turn at the top of the stairs and any awkward corners. We measure every frame before it leaves and will tell you honestly if a smaller size or a knock down back is the safer choice.
Twenty five years on the frame and the springs, which is where a sofa either lasts or does not. Leather and fabric are covered against manufacturing faults, and we keep a record of every hide we cut so a later repair can be matched.
Free swatches are the closest thing to seeing it in person, and we will post up to five anywhere in the US at no cost. A video call with the team is the next best thing: we can walk you round the piece you are considering and answer anything the photographs do not. Our showrooms are in England if you are ever visiting.
