L-Shape Sofas made in Nepal

The L-shape is the fastest-selling sofa shape in Nepal right now, and it is also the shape most often sold badly. Walk through any furniture cluster in Kathmandu — Jadibuti, Kalanki, Chabahil — and you will find corner sofas at NPR 30,000 and corner sofas at NPR 1,20,000 that look nearly identical in a photograph. The difference is not the fabric. It is what sits underneath the chaise.

A chaise is a cantilever. It is a long seat with support at one end and nothing much at the other, and it carries a full adult body weight in the worst possible position. On a properly built L-shape there is a plywood deck across the chaise, carried on the same seasoned hardwood frame as the main run, with a leg under the outer corner. On a cheap one there is a webbing strap and hope. Both feel identical in the showroom. Only one of them is still flat in year three.

We build the RP Newa L in both hands — right-hand and mirror left-hand — at the same price, because roughly half of the rooms we measure need the chaise on the side the market does not stock. Standard main run is 240 cm with a 160 cm chaise, and we will build anywhere from 200 cm to 300 cm without changing the price band. Storage under the chaise is available, but it has to be decided before we build the frame.

One honest piece of advice before you buy any L-shape: measure the short side of your room. If it is under about eleven feet, the L will physically fit and will still be the wrong choice, because it will eat your walking path. In that room a five-seater on a single frame gives you almost the same seat count against one wall. We would rather sell you the five-seater and keep you as a customer.

Send a photograph of your room on WhatsApp and we will tell you which hand you need and whether the shape belongs there at all.

Ask about l-shape sofas on WhatsApp Call 9849239091