Thanks for your comments needstuff and no need to apologize, you make valid points. The sofas will in fact be in a formal great room and not where we will be lounging around, we have another room for that. We won't even have a TV in this formal room. Although comfort is definitely important, in this particular room we're going for the visual look and quality, plus, since it's just my husband and I, chances are the Author chairs will get more use, unless I'm stretched out on a Teton reading a book.
Duane has been fantastic (even during this week of madness!). He checked with H&M and found out that the Teton sofa shown on the H&M website is in Mesquite Saddle Lightly Burnished... the exact same leather that we have been contemplating! So, we know it's the right choice for us. We've gone ahead and placed our order, which was fiddly and time consuming due to the customizing we chose. A big THANK YOU to Duane for being so patient and accommodating, we are so glad we found this forum and have been able to finalize the order today. We're delighted.