New Sofa?
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New Sofa?
A question for all of you already in Australia - we need to get a new sofa which we will be shipping over to Australia when we (hopefully) come.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
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Re: New Sofa?
A question for all of you already in Australia - we need to get a new sofa which we will be shipping over to Australia when we (hopefully) come.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
Leather sofa's are common in Aus, would say having leather car seats would be more of an issue
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Re: New Sofa?
Ah, but we need a new sofa now - ours is really on it's last legs. We may not get to Australia until next year so can't really wait that until then.
Have loose covers at the moment which is great because it's never out of the washing machine with having the little ones.
Have loose covers at the moment which is great because it's never out of the washing machine with having the little ones.
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Yes leather is common here in Oz, as long as your prepared to sit in a pool of your own or someone else's sweat for hours at a time especially if you do not have air-con installed then go for leather. We chose fabric as we find the sweat soaks into it better LOL, no we chose fabric solely because of the heat, comfort and sweat issue, we had ours protected with scotchgaurd and will have it pro-cleaned once a year as per manufacturer instructions, it's down to personal choice really...
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Re: New Sofa?
A question for all of you already in Australia - we need to get a new sofa which we will be shipping over to Australia when we (hopefully) come.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm not sure whether to go for a fabric one or a leather one - does the fabric one get ruined because everyone is wearing suncream on their legs? Or is the leather one too hot and sticky in the Australian heat?
Maybe a bit of a daft question, but somebody else surely must have wondered about this? Any advice would be much appreciated.
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We also have leather, which I love because of the kids.
But we do have ducted air con and we usually try to keep the ouse at 24-25 degrees, so having a leather couch is no problem (for us anyway).
But we do have ducted air con and we usually try to keep the ouse at 24-25 degrees, so having a leather couch is no problem (for us anyway).
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Ah, but we need a new sofa now - ours is really on it's last legs. We may not get to Australia until next year so can't really wait that until then.
Have loose covers at the moment which is great because it's never out of the washing machine with having the little ones.
Have loose covers at the moment which is great because it's never out of the washing machine with having the little ones.
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We dont have Leather here in Oz,but wish we had got one rather than fabric when we came over..we went though the same thing,should we buy UK or Oz..
as somebody said with small kids Leather is the way to go...cant you get a cheap one to tied you over??
Steve
as somebody said with small kids Leather is the way to go...cant you get a cheap one to tied you over??
Steve