H&M sofas too big for doorways??

We've been looking at a Journey sofa. The smallest dimension is 39.5 inches and our doorway is 36 inches. One sales person we spoke with noted that H&M sofas are particularly large pieces, and sometimes people forget to consider how they will get them in their houses. Is this really an issue - that H&M sofas have trouble fitting through standard doorways?

With the Journey I think we can flip the cushions back and that will shave off a few inches. We'll have to find one somewhere to measure and be sure.

Am I missing something here, or is this really an issue?

Thanks!

Not an issue, Everything made by Hancock and Moore will go through a 36" doorway and 85% of the line will go through 34". Doesn't really get to be problematic until we get to the 32" and smaller doorways.

FYI, never move a sofa with attached cushions 'flipped'. If you catch the cushion on an edge of door frame and keep moving forward with the move, the leather can - and will - rip. If you have need more room on a sofa like that, its better to compress the cushions by wrapping them tightly to the frame with pallet clear film wrap, which picks up and inch or so and also protects the leather going through the egress points.

To measure a sofa for going through a doorframe, take the 45 degree measure as shown in this photo (attached). That's the number you need.

For anyone with questions about whether a particular piece of furniture will "fit", the undisputed expert in the field is Harry Lipsky.

Send him an email at his long-running blog with the exact dimensions of the furniture and the space you are trying to move it through and he will quickly let you know whether it can be done.

In the case of close calls he will tell you exactly how to position and move the furniture to have the best chance of getting through the door (or the stairs, hall, window, etc.)

He works with all types of furniture, but of course many of the questions are about sofas.

He can be reached at http://en.allexperts.com/q/Moving-Furniture-2016/ He does not charge for his services.

Jeff Frank
www.simplicitysofas.com

Great - this is all good to hear. We found that the cushions could be compressed considerably, saving quite a few inches. The 45 degree angle was still too big for the doorway but it's a useful measure for future reference! Thanks!!

Just wanted to share our experience of how we moved our 17 year old H&M Austin sofa to the basement through a 30" door opening... After giving this move a great deal of thought,which included measuring, measuring and more measuring, consulting this forum, reading posts from Harry Lipsky on the http://en.allexperts.com/q/Moving-Furniture-2016/ website, and getting a contractor estimate to remove or enlarge the doorway, we decided to just give it a try. First we secured 2 large 20 year old males, removed the front legs of the sofa, removed the top cushion from the bustle back, and then taking Duane's advice, tightly wrapped the sofa in pallet film wrap. Including the 2" non removable back legs, the sofa is approximately 32 1/2" in height, but easily moved through the 30" door opening without a single glitch. Needless to say, we were relieved that the move went so smootly and thrilled that our "old" sofa is going to happily live out it's remaining years in our finished basement! Now, all we need to do is wait for our new H&M sofa to arrive!

So if our door openings are only 33" wide at the most, will the Arrington or Ricki H & M sofa fit through our doors with no issue? The depth of our current sofa is only 32" high and depth is 37" and width is 84"-85" at the longest parts of the sofa (arms) and 82" from the bottom on end to end if we're measuring correctly, so we didn't have a problem getting it inside from what I can remember. The feet on our current sofa were not removable.