The Investment That Most Households Don't Protect A quality sofa represents one of the largest furniture investments in most households — $1,000 to $4,000 for a piece that will see daily use for a decade or more. The care decisions that determine whether it looks presentable at year ten versus whether it looks exhausted by year five are simple and require minimal time investment, but...

The Chair That Gets Used for Everything The dining chair is the most multi-use seat in most homes: it's used for meals (obviously), for homework and work-from-home tasks, for lingering over coffee and conversation, and for any gathering where the dining table serves as a shared surface. Despite this intensive daily contact, most dining chairs are selected primarily for appearance — the visual relationship to...