Choose your fabric carefully if the couch is going to get a lot of use. If there's a pattern, it should go all the way through and be thick and sturdy. Stay away from thin fabrics - save them for window treatments and throw pillows.
Otherwise, buy a good wood frame with eight-way hand-tied springs.
A good couch lasts forever. Our couch was custom made 18 years ago for well under $2,000. Every five or six years, we send it out to be reupholstered and for $500-$600, we get an essentially new one. He reties the springs and does any repairs needed inside before he puts on the new fabric. Every other time, we get new cushions.
Before we found the custom place, which unfortunately has closed, we had planed to be Southwood.
Otherwise, buy a good wood frame with eight-way hand-tied springs.
A good couch lasts forever. Our couch was custom made 18 years ago for well under $2,000. Every five or six years, we send it out to be reupholstered and for $500-$600, we get an essentially new one. He reties the springs and does any repairs needed inside before he puts on the new fabric. Every other time, we get new cushions.
Before we found the custom place, which unfortunately has closed, we had planed to be Southwood.