living room sofas

The beauty of sofas is that they turn any location into a place where you want to be. I am referring to a phenomenon that extends beyond your typical place for a couch, say, in the living room of your home. What I am talking about is when you see a sofa having ventured outside the usual confines; when you come across one sitting unexpected on the sidewalk or in a bar. There is some sort of quality to sofas that makes their presence in an outside or public setting seem like a pleasant little surprise. It's as if the disparity between the public landscape and the casual intimacy of a couch transforms the piece of furniture into a miniature thrill ride from its rarity. It's like testing out a bed in a furniture warehouse; it brings out the kid in you. There isn't anyone who, at least a little bit, didn't love to lie down on the beds in the middle of a department store and experience the world around them from that isolated perspective. In a mall, on the third floor, in a sea of merchandise and people, with elevator music playing in the background and mothers and children and couples wandering and chatting about, there you lie, cozily nestled among the puffy, pretty pillows, granted that space as your respite, an island unto itself.