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A sofa is one of the biggest, longest-lived purchases you'll make for your home and one of the easiest to get wrong. Most sofa regrets aren't about taste; they're about avoidable mistakes made in the excitement of buying: the sofa that won't fit through the door, the bargain that sagged within a year, and the color that looked nothing like the p...

Buy them separately, and it's surprisingly easy to end up with a mattress and bed frame that don't quite get along, a mattress that overhangs the frame, a slatted base that voids the mattress warranty, or a combination that's either rock-hard or strangely bouncy. Get them working together, though, and the result is a bed that's comfortable, supp...

It's a fair question, and a surprisingly hard one to answer, because sofa prices span an enormous range. You can spend a few hundred pounds or several thousand, and the sofas can look quite similar in a photograph. So how much should you actually spend, and what does the extra money buy you? This guide sets out the typical UK price bands, what y...