Living Room Furniture Closeout Specials

Everybody is always looking for living room furniture closeout specials. Why pay full price for the latest and greatest furniture when you can get brand new discontinued styles for a fraction of the cost and no one but ever need know how great a bargain you got.

While there are a variety of pieces available for the living room, sofas, loveseats side chairs and recliners are the most common type of upholstered furniture. Coffee and end tables, entertainment centers and lamps are the most common accessories purchased. Most of the retailers offer �sets� at bulk purchase prices.

In living room furniture closeout specials beauty and comfort are the best criteria for choosing a sofa, loveseat or chair. While appearance is essential to creating the atmosphere of your home, comfort makes the furniture a pleasure to live with. Most upholstered furniture consists of three basic parts beneath the outer fabric cover. They are the frame, the supporting foundation, and the cushioning or padding.

The frame and supporting foundation are critical to comfort because they provide the structural support for the other components. Traditionally the best frames have been made of kiln-dried hardwood that resists warping. Today, quality frames may also be made of steel, plastic, laminated boards or a combination of these materials.

Next, there must be support above the frame. Manufacturers use webbing, sling straps, slats or springs of various types to provide the needed support structure. The design, size and amount of support or softness desired by the designer will determine which type of support materials the designer uses.
Springs can be single coil, double cone coil or zigzag (sinuous S-type) and can be connected with twine, wire ties or clips.

Eight-way hand-tied coil springing has been considered a mark of quality living room furniture closeout specials for decades. Each coil spring is placed in the seat by hand and a skilled craftsman ties the coil into place with twine and interlocks it with the other coils using an intricate set of knots. Each coil is set so it responds to body weight with the proper degree of support.

Although eight-way, hand-tied remains the standard of excellence for those who can afford the very best they also require ample space and can make the furniture bulky. The S-type spring is slim and strong and makes it possible to have good looking, light-weight, �slim�, comfortable, serviceable upholstered furniture at affordable prices.

Finally, the cushioning forms the comfort layer. Cushioning materials include cotton or polyester, polyurethane foam and, of course, down. Foam and polyester fiberfill wrap are commonly used padding materials. These man-made materials are durable, resilient, mothproof and mildew and fungus resistant. Foam can be used as a solid unit, wrapped with a softer polyester material or chopped up and blown into new shapes for arms and backs that would otherwise be hard to pad.

Now all you need to do is cover the furniture in your choice of fabric designs or leather. Of course, the ultimate test for living room furniture closeout specials is to sit down. How else can you tell if this sofa or chair is right for you?