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so good Carol O’Callaghan talks to interior designer Paula Condon about navigating the choice of sofas available to get the perfect fit for your home and lifestyle Carol O’Callaghan • Sofa feature with Paula Condon • Nov 2023
Remember the episode from Friends where Ross buys a sofa and carries it upstairs to his apartment to avoid the delivery fee? It ends badly and hilariously with the white sofa a filthy wreck, sawn in two, and the word ‘pivot’ now embedded in the pop culture lexicon. Maybe he ought to have enlisted help from New York’s equivalent of Paula Condon, interior designer at EZ Living Interiors, Pouladuff, Cork, who is a trove of experience on determining your sofa-buying needs to reflect your personal taste and practical needs, with effortless home delivery.
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“The sofa is probably going to be the most expensive piece in the room,” she says, “so speak to the salesperson. The sooner you tell us what you’re looking for, we can direct and help you eliminate too.” For customers down-sizing from, say, a house to an apartment, Paula cites the Anderson range for its modern looks, elevated on legs making a room look larger. For a young couple starting out, she suggests the Santorini or Preston. Both are high on comfort with clean lines, but sometimes it’s practical aspects that families prioritise for sticky-fingered kiddies and pets with muddy paws in need of wipeable microfibre or durable leather. Paula also encourages customers to walk around, and if a sofa catches their eye it can be delivered within the week, or there’s the EZ Living Interiors special order option to capture that longed-for jewel tone or warm neutral you didn’t see on the shop floor.
