Our couch is a Lago Vista from Couch Potatoes in Austin, and it is the best piece of furniture we have ever owned. It is the olive one holding court in the Found & Kept portrait — the stage everything else sat on.
The highlights: built in its own Austin factory, most pieces made to order in your pick of more than a hundred fabrics, and a firmness scale that runs from the Fluffy, a 1, all the way to the Brentwood, a firm 5 — more than twenty collections of varying firmness in between, most of them named for Austin streets and places. Our Lago Vista sits at a 3, right in the middle.
Mine hosts the tea tray and the fruitcake in between guests and easily converts to a generous sleepover surface by removing the back cushions and pillows, and the feet on this one plant it where it lands — voted “least likely to move” winner in couches. It is not moving again for anybody. When we move again, it's ten men and a truck.
Couch Potatoes stands behind what it builds. Our guarantee runs the other way: guests become couch potatoes on it — removal not covered, and we are not responsible for roots growing or the cost of twelve men and a truck to move them both.
Shop the Lago Vista at Couch Potatoes. The long version — the names, the hunt and all — is our love letter on the blog.
