sofas & sectionals

What Makes a Sofa a Sectional?

People use the word sectional loosely — to mean big, to mean corner, to mean modular. The actual definition is simpler: a sofa becomes a sectional the moment it's built from two or more separate pieces joined together rather than one continuous frame. Once you understand that, everything else — the shapes, the trade-offs, whether to buy one large sectional or two sofas — becomes a much easier decision. Here's how we'd think through it.

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