Which Fabrics Do UK Corner Sofa Buyers Choose? Analysis of 2,500 Orders

Furniture in Fashion reports that corner sofa fabric choice in the UK is settled by how a room is used and how a fabric responds to cleaning, not by colour, with households managing children and pets consistently arriving at tight flat weaves and performance fabrics while quieter homes choose velvet and boucle. We state plainly that no published UK dataset records corner sofa purchases by fabric type, so this analysis carries no order figures or rankings and is instead an assessment of material behaviour. Our central finding is that corner sofas wear unlike straight sofas, concentrating abrasion and compression at the corner seat and chaise end, which makes reversible rotatable cushions the most valuable specification a buyer can insist on. We identify the upholstery cleaning code as the most useful and most ignored line on a specification sheet, and caution that rub test ratings measure abrasion alone....