This posses a basic problem of how to fit in the furniture and is the subject of a New York Times article in which our company Dr. Sofa was featured.
Here is an excerpt , you can read the whole article here:
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| Sofa stuck on a doorway |
"....In some cases — particularly in New York, where doorways and elevators are
narrow — big pieces bump up against simple laws of physics. Max Bar-Nahum, the
director of sales and marketing at Dr. Sofa, a Bronx-based company that
specializes in the dis assembly and reassembly of furniture, said he gets several
calls a day from people who buy a couch or chair and discover it’s too big to
deliver. The steel-frame couches made by B&B Italia and other modern
designers bring him a lot of business. “You have no idea how big these sofas
are,” Mr. Bar-Nahum said.
Granted, it can be hard to gauge the size of furniture in a store, where the
ceilings are often high and the showrooms loft-like. But retailers show no sign of dropping the biggest pieces from their lines, even at a time when many Americans are downsizing in response to the housing crash and recession. The median size of a new home, as of the third quarter of 2011, was 2,244 square feet, down from 2,308 square feet in 2006, said David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Homebuilders. He added that the square footage should level off at about 2,200 — a trend line that hardly screams Texas depth..."
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