{"id":103861,"date":"2019-02-10T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loveseat-sales-are-up-4500-are-we-madly-in-lust-or-just-short-of-space\/"},"modified":"2019-02-10T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:03:06","slug":"loveseat-sales-are-up-4500-are-we-madly-in-lust-or-just-short-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loveseat-sales-are-up-4500-are-we-madly-in-lust-or-just-short-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Loveseat sales are up 4,500%. Are we madly in lust \u2013 or just short of space?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHuge sofas are out and velvet loveseats are in. No wonder, when more and more Britons are crammed into shoebox homesWhen is a sofa not a sofa? When Valentine\u2019s Day is around the corner, of course, and it becomes a loveseat. According to the online furniture retailer Swoon, seizing on this marketing opportunity, its loveseats have become enormously popular, with sales rocketing by 4,500%.A loveseat is a small sofa, more bougie than a two-seater, on which you can stretch out languidly like a cat or, if you\u2019re feeling romantic, two people can snuggle up together (until someone\u2019s leg goes to sleep). \u201cIt\u2019s the new two-seater, using space more economically,\u201d says Sam Baldry, Swoon\u2019s head of design. \u201cThe Tulum, for example, has really low arms, so you can lie all the way across it. You can curl up on it in a way that you never could on an armchair, or two of you can sit on it fairly comfortably, which means that you are using two-thirds of the space of a two-seater.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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