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How to Create a Reading Nook

A reading nook comes down to three decisions: the right chair, the right light, and enough enclosure to make the corner feel its own. Hickory Chair, founded in 1911 in Hickory, North Carolina, buil...

How to Choose a Chaise Lounge

Choosing a chaise lounge comes down to three decisions: available floor length, orientation relative to the room's focal point, and the fill that suits how you actually use the piece. Highland Hous...

Linen, Velvet or Bouclé: Choosing an Upholstery Fabric

Linen, velvet, or bouclé each suits a different chair, a different room, and a different life. For accent seating from Jessica Charles, available through Sutter & Vale, the choice comes down to...

Nailhead Trim: Styles, Spacing and When to Use It

Nailhead trim is a row of small metal tacks hand-set along upholstered edges to anchor fabric or leather and define a frame's silhouette. At Sutter & Vale, Hancock & Moore sets the standard...

What Is a Customer's Own Leather (COL)?

Customer's Own Leather, abbreviated COL, means you supply the hide and the manufacturer builds the piece in it. Hancock & Moore, a leather upholstery house in North Carolina, accepts COL on mad...

Swivel Chairs: When They Make Sense

A swivel chair makes sense when one seat needs to serve more than one direction: conversation, a view, a television, or a nearby desk. Fairfield Chair builds the Tipsy in a fixed lounge version and...

How to Choose an Accent Chair That Fits the Room

Choose an accent chair by matching its footprint to your available floor space, its seat dimensions to the people using it, and its visual scale to the nearest large piece of furniture. Sutter &...

How to Care for Leather Furniture

Hancock & Moore leather furniture is built to last twenty or more years of daily use. The house selects each hide to a standard most upholstery makers never reach, then benches every piece in N...

How to Choose Between Upholstery Fabric Grades

Fabric grades at Highland House Furniture, available through Sutter & Vale, are a pricing structure, not a quality ranking. Each grade groups fabrics by what they cost the manufacturer to sourc...