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Soft Rabbit by Elizabeth Snelling $850 on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

I thought this was an interesting post from Apartment Therapy<\/a>. Not only does it teach us a little something about furniture, but we also get a peek into some cool living rooms to see how other folks are living with art!<\/p>\n

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Jae & Devin’s Labor of Love in Brooklyn Image credit: Nancy Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n

Repost Via\u00a0Apartment Therapy<\/a>:\u00a0Here on Apartment Therapy, we tend to use “sofa” and “couch” interchangeably to refer to the place where you might entertain friends or plop down with a blanket for a Netflix marathon. But do the two words really mean the same thing? Where did they come from? And what, then, are a settee and a loveseat?<\/p>\n

COUCH
\nOrigin: The word “couch” comes from the French verb coucher, which translates to “to lie down.”
\nDistinction: None, really, between a couch and a sofa. The only difference is in the connotation. People tend to prefer the word couch when they’re talking about a casual, un-stuffy room. A “couch” is a place to lie down and veg out. Usually three or more cushions.<\/p>\n

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the couch by Daniel Grant $1,110 on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

SOFA
\nOrigin: The word “sofa” originated from suffah, an Arabic word that referred to a wood or stone bench.
\nDistinction: Again, it’s about connotation here. Most people use sofa when they’re trying to be fancy, or trying to charge you more at the showroom. A “sofa” is more of a proper place to sit than a lie-down couch.<\/p>\n

An NPR article by Linton Weeks called “The Deep-Seated Meaning Of The American Sofa<\/a>” features a great quote by Benjamin Parzybok, author of the novel\u00a0Couch<\/em><\/a>:\u00a0“The couch is the thrash-able object at the center of a well-used living room, upon whose back toddlers straddle, whose cushions teenager become permanent fixtures, and which, at the end of the day, after the children are in bed, a couple might relax with a short glass of bourbon.\u00a0<\/em>A sofa, on the other hand, sits under a trimly hung painting and lives in a house in which traffic passes it by. It would be white, of course, or another color begging for stain. And most people living at the house of a sofa would be forbidden to sit upon it at one time or another.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Creative Haven of Artist Robyn Rich Image credit: Leanne Bertram<\/p><\/div>\n

LOVESEAT
\nOrigin: It’s where you sit when you’re in love. It’s a mini-couch intended for just two people to sit cozy together.
\nDistinction: It’s much shorter than a couch. Usually two cushions.<\/p>\n

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A Portland kitchen from Jessica Helgerson Image credit: Lincoln Barbour<\/p><\/div>\n

SETTEE
\nOrigin: The word “settee” comes from the Old English word setl, which was used to describe long benches with high backs and arms.
\nDistinction: A proper settee should really have a high back and arms (like an extra-wide chair), but people use the word to describe all manner of upholstered mutli-seat furniture, it seems. It’s shorter in length than a sofa, and sometimes has a higher seat height.<\/p>\n

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Elo\u00efse & Jose’s Filled-with-Kijiji-Finds Montreal Loft Image credit: Marie-Lyne Quirion<\/p><\/div>\n

SECTIONAL
\nOrigin: It’s a couch, in sections.
\nDistinction: It’s a couch, in sections. Usually two to four pieces that fit together interchangeably and meet at a corner or angle (the “L” shape and “U” shape).<\/p>\n

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Read by Fahd Husain $255 on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The good news is that no matter what you have, even if only a chair, all of these things pair really well with great original art!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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