Why do they make sofas too short to lie on?

[Devsman]

I swear they do this on purpose, because it is persistently within like three inches of being long enough.

[Devsman]

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I swear they do this on purpose, because it is persistently within like three inches of being long enough.

Well, there are differently sized couches. I have a few and two of them are long enough to lie-down and take a nap on, pillow included. I have some others that are not long enough to do that with and a few others that are designed like "feinting couches" but... suck at everything "couch."

But, furniture has to go places. That means it gets moved. That means it has to be able to be moved and fit in spaces and between things that do not move...

You can't move a really long couch up a narrow set of turning stairs with narrow corridors - It won't happen. That's why there are youtube vids of ropes snapping and couches falling from five floors up because someone is trying to haul them up and over a balcony to an apartment.

The majority of low to mid-grade furniture is designed to fit through doorways and narrow halls so that it can be purchased by everyone, especially budget consumers moving from apartment to apartment. High-grade furniture can be similarly designed, of course, but it's also more likely the class of items where luxury furniture and things like four-person couches or "full" couches are going to be found.

Cost of materials and final sale's price also matters - Big couches may need additional internal supports, middle legs/multiple, or even steel if they span a large distance. There's only so much force normal jointing techniques can take and wood that spans a long distance has to be thicker to support the additional stress, which means more expensive bits of lumber, fittings, jointery. And, is adding all that just for some sleeping space when it's not really designed for that in the first place worth it to the manufacturer? No.

Without all that stuff, a fat guy sitting on a long couch without it is going to end up breaking that couch. I have no doubt there is someone that visits this forum that can regale us all with a tale of a big/fat friend breaking a couch the first time they sat on it. (I've seen it happen several times, myself.) That's why longer couches take more stuffs to construct them appropriately. :)

Good point.