Hi from newbie and question re Weston Cane Burnished leather

[Mountainlion]

I'd like to say hi to everyone here and also to thank Duane very much for allowing me to participate in the forum from afar.

My husband and I have only just started our journey to furnish our dream home and we're looking for good quality sofas for the great room. Looking at H&M online, I came across this forum and haven't looked back. I've read, printed off, read again, followed your projects and viewed so many pictures, and started all over again when I forgot what I viewed first! I'm not sure if it's made the choice any easier though, there are so many beautiful examples here that we keep flip flopping from one style to another. I'm so grateful that we can view photos, since we're overseas and can't walk into a store and view samples, so I am grateful to you all for uploading pics.

We're going to need two sofas, two armchairs and two ottomans. We started off with the September range in mind, but now we've changed our minds and we're looking at a few possibilities to include:

- Seldon sofa and some sort of chair (to be decided)
- Teton sofa and Round Moore chair (this option may be discounted due to lack of comfort from Teton sofa)
- Rugby sofa and armchair (if this choice is made it probably would end up in our daylight basement in years to come)
- Sundance sofa and armchair (I love the sectional but our great room is a formal area rather than lounging area)

Tomorrow our choices may be different.

I'd like to apologise to Duane in advance, because if anyone is going to be the most challenging and send him round the bend, it's likely to be me. He'll never get to enjoy an Aston Martin, which by the way, I used to live near their premises in Newport Pagnell, UK many years ago, and it was like a tin rust bucket series of sheds, who would believe such beautiful cars could be produced from such humble beginnings. Anyway, back to the task in hand (although Aston Martin do good with leather too!).

I am totally and utterly confused. I have seen several photos of Weston Cane Burnished leather and it's so hard to decipher which photo depicts the color most accurately. I hope it's okay to attach other posters' pics here, if not, then let me know and consider my hand slapped and I won't do it again.

I'm not looking for a bright orange, I'm really looking for a deep, rich 'dirty' sort of color, well burnished, so the leather has depth and is not flat. I've no idea if Weston Cane Burnished is that, since the Utah sofa shown here is very orange, compared to the Author chair, which is more brown, and then there's the Rugby chair, which is a bit of both. How on earth do you choose a leather if the same color can look so different? This freaks me out a bit. Any words of wisdom? I'm wondering if a tiny sample is going to help at all or not.