Quick delivery sofas

Choosing a quick delivery sofa

A quick delivery sofa is the same sofa you would otherwise wait for, chosen from designs we have already upholstered rather than ones we begin from scratch. Because the cover is decided, the choice starts with shape, proportion and how you actually sit.

For deep, coastal ease there is the Long Island, drawn from our founders' travels along America's East Coast, with loose slipcovers, a flowing skirt and corner kick pleats. The Eliza came from the opposite direction: our design director, Fred, spotted the original while researching period sofas at auction, an Edwardian design with an exposed frame meant to be seen from every angle, and its single long seat cushion was a deliberate decision so nobody sinks into the middle. The Olivia is the quintessential English sofa, deep and sweeping with a double-arched backrest and turned oak legs on brass castors. The George shares those castors but sits more formally, with a scrolled backrest, pin-tuck tailoring and a reduced depth for narrower rooms.

For something more upright, the Eva traces a line of antique-style studs around a crisp silhouette. The Shoreditch is the most contemporary of them, architectural and full-armed, and made for larger rooms. The Lottie takes its cue from the Chesterfield, buttoned and high-armed in a two-seater footprint.

Sizes run from compact two-seaters through to four-seaters and L-shaped corner designs.

In-stock sofas, made the same way

Nothing here is a compromise on the sofas we make to order. The frames are kiln-dried tulipwood, assembled and upholstered by hand using the same methods that have kept antique sofas intact for centuries. Most designs are held together with traditional reinforced halving joints, while the Eliza uses mortise and tenon joints from rail to leg. Serpentine springs carry the seat across the collection, so support sits where it is needed rather than where the filling happens to be thickest.

The cushions are where the thinking shows. Neptune builds a seat cushion around a foam core and wraps it in feather, with fibre blended through on most designs, so the seat holds its shape between plumps rather than asking for constant attention. It is a slower way to fill a cushion, and it is the reason a Neptune seat settles rather than flattens.

The frames and springs of every design here carry Neptune's lifetime guarantee, with three years on the fabric and cushion inners. That is the same guarantee that covers a sofa made to order. Nothing is downgraded to make it quicker.

What changes when the sofa is available now?

One thing genuinely changes, and it is the order of things. Instead of choosing a fabric and waiting while your sofa is built, you are choosing from a design already finished in a cover we selected. The cover you see is the cover that arrives, so it is worth ordering fabric samples first if you are matching to a room you already live in. Neptune sends up to six free of charge.

Returns work differently here too, and in your favour. Made-to-order upholstery is non-returnable, because it has been built to your personal specification. These sofas were not, so Neptune's standard 28-day returns policy applies instead. Premium Delivery then brings the sofa to the room of your choice, unboxes it, assembles it and takes the packaging away for recycling, handled by our own two-person delivery crew rather than left at the door.

Some pieces here are Renewed: ex-display sofas, customer returns and photography samples, repaired where they need it by our Wiltshire team and priced accordingly. The collection changes as pieces sell, so it is worth looking again if the size you want is not here today.