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Practical guidance on leather, frames, sizing and styling, written by the team who build and deliver the sofas.
Holidays
Holidays
Make Space for Christmas: Five Storage Solutions for the Home
Hands up if you're welcoming guests into your home for Christmas! While it's undoubtedly an exciting time, the festive period can also prove extremely stressful. But
Holidays
Holidays
Happy Thanksgiving: A Quick Holiday Recipe
We wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our friends and customers from across the pond a very happy Thanksgiving today (Thursday, November 28) -
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Autumn/Winter Interiors Focus: Florals
Ever since the Great British Bake Off with all its twee charm popped up on our TV screens, floral prints have made something of a comeback.
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
The Show (room) Must Go On!
There's been quite a lot of change at our West Yorkshire premises of late. First, our old reception desk was ripped out, with a brand new
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Are You On Twitter?
Never miss a Distinctive Chesterfields update again by heading to our Twitter page here. You'll find everything from photos (check out the stunning oriental red leather Belchamp
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Autumn/Winter Interiors Focus: Embellished Walls
We've talked a lot about autumn/winter design trends on the blog lately, but there's just so many of them catching our attention this year. Apparently, embellished
Charity
Charity
Children in Need: Are You Getting Involved?
Today's Children in Need here in the UK! If you're reading this from across the pond, the annual event sees the nation raise much-needed funds for
Chesterfield Furniture
Chesterfield Furniture
Five Reasons to Join Us On Facebook
Are you a fan of Distinctive Chesterfields on Facebook yet? If you've not yet joined our page, today we’re bringing you five great reasons why hitting
Charity
Charity
Distinctive Chesterfields to Support Make a Wish Charity!
Great news! We're teaming up with UK children's charity Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK very soon! We'll be auctioning off one of our beautiful oriental red leather Chesterfields (as seen
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Autumn/Winter Interiors Focus: Tartan
A huge catwalk trend for autumn/winter, tartan is back! According to many, though, it never really went away. How could it? Cutting a bold statement, the
Holidays
Holidays
Thanksgiving: Is Your Home Ready?
Halloween is over and Bonfire Night’s been and gone, which according to the American holiday calendar means just one thing – Thanksgiving’s on its way. Our
Interiors Trends and Tips
Interiors Trends and Tips
Feng Shui: How It’s Done…
Christmas is on its way! And with all the chaos that’s bound to ensue in the weeks leading up to the festive period, an air of
Charity
Charity
Fancy an Autographed Chesterfield Sofa?
While you're tucking into your favourite Saturday night food later on this evening, make sure you switch over to itv AT 8pm to tune into this
Free swatch service
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.
Five samples, posted free Order your swatches
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.
