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The living room is the room that has to do everything. It hosts, it relaxes, and it entertains the children and, increasingly, doubles as an office or a cinema. Making it stylish is one thing; making it stylish and genuinely functional and inviting is the real challenge, and it's what separates a room that looks good in photos from one that's lo...

"Luxury" is the most overused word in furniture retail. It appears on £300 sofas and £8,000 ones, on solid oak and on printed laminate, and by itself, it tells you almost nothing. Which is a problem when you're trying to work out whether a price tag reflects genuine quality or simply a well-designed website. The good news is that real luxury fur...

Once you've decided a recliner is right for you, one question remains, and it's the one that genuinely divides people: manual or electric? Pull a lever, or press a button? It sounds like a minor detail. It isn't. The mechanism affects the price you pay, where you can position the sofa, how precisely you can adjust it, who in the household can us...