Re: Leather Furniture and what you can - and cannot expect
<laughing> I stop answering emails and forum posts about midnight, and start up again about 7 a.m....
Sonoma is a true suede and more coarse - made from the splits, Nubuck is a Top Grain pure aniline that is buffed down, so its a finer leather than a true suede however has limited colors. I am not a fan of either on a seating surface - you can't slide on either one and that's a real annoyance after a bit. We don't think about 'sliding' when in a sofa, but you do it every time you adjust your position, and most the time you don't even realize how much you do. However, I understand what you are going for in a look. My advice would be this - and it will cost you a bit of money to do it - go ahead and order it as you like, then buy an extra seat casing in the leather the main body is going to be in - assuming you are not doing the whole piece in a suede. That way you have them to fall back on and out of the same dye lot as the leather body in case you do tire of the suede or nubuck seat, or simply stain it to the point it needs to be replaced (both those leathers are very hard to clean).
I have better photos of the H&M nails here on the forum as a sticky than the H&M website photo. Click my photo three times and you get a nice, hi-res photo.
The software you speak of isn't going to happen - I've been beating that drum for almost two decades and they won't invest the money into that consumer web tool. Its expensive to do so, and would require a full time employee to keep up with all the frame and cover changes as well as frame adds and drops. THis is not a wealthy industry like many others. Margins are tight, and there is not much fat in it.
Duane Collie
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