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5 seater sofas, in a line or around a corner

Choosing the right 5 seater sofa

A five-seater sofa is the size at which Neptune's range changes shape. At the smaller sizes, the choice is between straight designs. At five seats, one design carries on in a straight line, and the others turn a corner.

The straight one is the Olivia. At 245cm wide and 110cm deep, it gives 200cm of that width over to the seat rather than the arms, under a 43cm seat height and a 53cm double-arched backrest. Turned oak legs on brass castors lift the frame clear of the floor, which stops a sofa of this width reading as a solid block along a wall.

The corner designs here are Long Islands, and they take the same five places around a corner instead of along a single wall. The Long Island five-seater corner sofa is square in plan at 260cm by 260cm; the five-seater L-shaped corner sofa runs 220cm across the front with a 290cm return down the adjoining side. The Long Islands sit deeper in the seat than the Olivia, at 70cm against 65cm, and they wear loose linen covers rather than fixed upholstery. Which of them suits a room, and which hand it needs, is settled on our corner sofas page.

The same designs run narrower through our four-seater sofas and three-seater sofas.

What the fifth seat costs

The Olivia is made at four seats as well as five, which makes the price of the fifth seat unusually easy to read. The four-seater is 225cm wide with 180cm of seat. The five-seater is 245cm wide with 200cm. Everything else is the same: 110cm deep, 88cm tall, a 43cm seat height, and 65cm of seat depth.

So the fifth seat costs 20cm of floor, and every one of those 20cm becomes seat. The arms do not grow with the sofa, which is why the extra width reads as somewhere to sit rather than as bulk.

What it does not buy is a wider straight sofa. A single frame stops at 245cm here, and the straight designs that go wider are built in sections instead. Past that point, the range changes what the sofa is rather than how wide it is, which is why the alternative at five seats is a corner.

How our 5 seater sofas are made

Every design here begins as a kiln-dried tulipwood frame, assembled and upholstered by hand and held with traditional reinforced halving joints. Serpentine springs carry the seat, and every cushion is built around a foam core wrapped in feather and fibre. The Olivia's turned legs are finished in Natural Oak or Darkened Oak, and it is offered in 25 fabrics, compared with 15 on the Long Island designs.

The frame and springs are guaranteed for life, with three years on the fabric and cushion inners.

5 Seater sofas FAQ's

Yes. The Olivia is made as a straight five-seater at 245cm, and it is the widest straight sofa we build as a single frame. It is worth saying plainly, because a search for a five-seater turns up corner designs far more often than straight ones, and arriving here expecting a row of straight sofas is an easy mistake to make. The Long Island designs in this collection reach five places by turning the seating instead. If the room has one long wall to work with, the Olivia is the answer. If it has two shorter ones, a corner design will use them better. The same Olivia is made at 225cm in our four-seater sofas.

Because five places in a single line need a clear run of roughly 2.5m with nothing in it: no doorway, no chimney breast, no radiator interrupting the wall. Most sitting rooms do not have one. Turning the seating borrows from two shorter walls instead of one long one, which is far easier to find in a real room, and it keeps the sofa out of the middle of the floor. Our Long Island corner designs are drawn on that logic, and none of them is a compromise on the straight version. They are made for rooms that have corners to spare rather than one uninterrupted wall.

On the Long Island designs, yes. Each is offered with a standard fill, a foam core wrapped in feather and fibre, or an all-feather fill wrapped around the same core. The standard fill keeps its shape with less attention, which suits a sofa in daily use. All-feather sits softer and sinks further, and it asks to be plumped rather than left, which is a fair trade on a sofa used mostly in the evening. The Olivia is made with the standard fill. Across a seat this long, the difference tells more than it would on a smaller sofa, because there is more of it to settle.

Five, though the shape decides how that feels more than the seat count does. On the Long Island corner designs, the seating turns, so nobody is left on the end of a row, and the corner itself has 70cm of depth to sit back into. The Olivia sets its five places along a single 200cm run, which is five at a squeeze and comfortable for the three or four who will use it most evenings. That is the honest way to read a five-seater. It is bought for the handful of occasions when everybody is in the room, and lived in by fewer.

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5 seater sofas, in a line or around a corner

Choosing the right 5 seater sofa

What the fifth seat costs

How our 5 seater sofas are made

5 Seater sofas FAQ's

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