Corner Sofas

Corner sofas with an equal-sided layout

A corner sofa creates a connected seating area with two matching sides, making it a practical choice for family rooms, open-plan spaces and larger lounges.

Unlike an L-shaped sofa, which usually combines a longer sofa section with a chaise return, M&H corner sofas use an equal-sided footprint. This gives them a more balanced layout where both sides of the sofa are designed to work together.

Find the right corner sofa size

Corner sofas are not one standard size. The overall footprint affects how the sofa works in your room, which is why every M&H design has its own published measurements.

Left hand or right hand corner sofa, which do you need?

Neither. No corner sofa in this collection is sold as handed, because all 26 designs are published with runs of equal length.

Most of the market works differently. A handed corner sofa has one long side and one short one, so you commit to the side the corner sits on at checkout. Get it wrong and the sofa blocks the door it was meant to sit beside.

The terms are not even used consistently across UK furniture retailers. Some define the hand by where the shorter section falls, some by the longer one, and some describe it from a seated position rather than from standing in front of the sofa. The same two words describe two different sofas depending on whose website you are reading, so it is worth confirming the layout before checkout on a sofa built to order.

If the return side matters in your room a radiator along one wall, a bay along the other tell us the design and which wall you are working to, and we will confirm how that sofa is built before you order. A square footprint shows the floor area needed, but reversibility depends on the design, and we are happy to confirm the build details before you order.

L Shape sofas are a separate configuration and are handed differently. Compare that collection on its own terms.

Which corner sofa fits your room

A corner sofa is chosen on floor area, not on the word in front of its name. Small and large are shopping terms, they carry no fixed measurement, and they shift meaning with every retailer.

Across this collection the three smallest designs are the Monroe, Clara and Amelia, at 235 × 235cm; the largest is the Ashton at 260 × 260cm. Everything else sits between them, and the whole collection spans 25cm from smallest to largest along each run  less than most people expect.

Twenty-five centimetres still decides things. Roughly a radiator, or the difference between a door that opens fully and one that catches.

Tape the shape out on your floor before you order anything. Then open the doors into that space, walk the line people actually take across the room, and pull out any drawer or cupboard door that lands inside the tape. A corner sofa passes or fails on what happens around it.

Published corner sofa dimensions

Every M&H corner sofa publishes its own measurements. That is twenty-six designs and twenty-six sets of figures, each read off that design's own product page. No category average, nothing extrapolated from a sample.

The Rio and Ashton corner footprints are approximate.

All measurements in centimetres, and all of them describe the finished sofa from the outside. For the usable cushion width between the arms, ask us to measure the design you like.

As each M&H sofa is handmade, finished dimensions may vary slightly from the published measurements as a result of normal manufacturing tolerances.

Two things in that table are worth pulling out. Chelsea Line and Chelsea Chesterfield are the low ones, the only two here under 70cm tall, and the Chelsea Line shares the lowest seat, 40cm, with the Hazel, 5cm below every other design. Depth varies too, and it is easy to overlook. Four designs come in under the 90cm that the other twenty-two share  Monroe, Charlotte and MH Theo by a full 10cm, Romeo by half that. Where a walkway runs along the front of the sofa, those centimetres are the walkway.

Arm height is published on seven of the 26 designs and not on the other nineteen, so we have left it out of the table. If arm height is what decides it for you  you are matching an existing side table, or you want to lie down on it  tell us the design and we will get the measurement from the workshop before you order.

M&H Sofa Size Guide

Getting a corner sofa into the room

Fitting a corner sofa into the room and getting it as far as the room are two separate problems, and the second is where a corner sofa behaves unlike anything else we build.

A three-seater is one long object. It goes through a door or it does not, and you can usually tell by measuring the opening. A corner unit is a longer object that also has to change direction. The tight point is rarely the front door. It is the turn at the bottom of the stairs, the half-landing, or the pivot from hallway into living room, where the piece has to rotate through an angle rather than slide straight on. That staircase turn is worth planning carefully.

So measure two things, not one: the tightest gap anywhere on the route, and the room you have to pivot in when you reach it.

Three figures decide it, the depth corner-to-corner on the diagonal, the size once wrapped and whether the corner section separates, and they vary by design. So rather than publish one doorway number for every corner sofa, we check each route with you.

Send the design you are looking at, along with what you have measured  a door, a stair turn, a landing, a lift  and we will work it through against the drawings and tell you before you place the order, not after.

That check matters more here than on any other page, because the M&H 30-Day Return Policy covers faults, not sizing. Ten minutes with a tape measure to check the room and the access route helps delivery day go smoothly.

Send us your access measurements

Corner sofa or L shape sofa?

A corner sofa and an L shape sofa are two different products at M&H, not two names for one. Different footprints, sold separately  even though most of the market treats the words as interchangeable.

Every one of the 26 designs on this page is also built as an L shape. Take MH Lily:

Same range. Same fabrics. Two different shapes on your floor. The corner gives you two equal runs; the L shape gives you one long run and a shorter return, which is usually the better answer when one wall is broken up by a door, a chimney breast or a radiator.

Choose on the measurements against your actual room. The word is not the decision.

A note on corner chaise sofa, since people search for it: M&H's chaise layout is the L shape sofa, with a shorter chaise return. The sofas on this page are equal-sided corner units.

L Shape Sofas · U Shaped Sofas

Which fabrics each corner sofa carries

Six upholstery families run across the corner sofa collection. Naple and Conistan are the two constants; Plush Velvet, Chenille, Jumbo Cord and Teddy/Bouclé come and go by design. Not every design offers all six, and the count in the table above is the number available on that one.

Naple and Conistan are on all 26 designs. Plush Velvet and Chenille are on 25  Jumbo Cord is the one design that carries neither. Nine carry the full six: MH Serenity, MH Somerset, Aaron, Clara, Romeo, MH Luxury, Chelsea Line, Majestic and Oliver.

Jumbo Cord is both a fabric and a design name here, which trips people up. The Jumbo Cord Corner Sofa is a design, upholstered in Jumbo Cord, Naple or Conistan. Jumbo Cord as a fabric is offered on ten designs in all. Go by what the product page offers you, not by what the design is called.

Velvet or cord on a corner sofa?

The two fabrics buyers ask about by name, and the honest difference is in the construction rather than in any durability claim.

Plush Velvet has a short, dense pile with very little for a claw or a nail to catch on. Jumbo Cord is a ribbed weave. The channels are what give it the look, and the same channels hold crumbs, pet hair and dust until you go along them with a brush. On a corner sofa that matters more than on a two-seater, because there is simply more surface and one interior corner that nobody vacuums.

Both photograph almost identically on a screen and feel nothing alike in the hand. Order free fabric swatches before you commit. Swatches are free, so it is the easiest part of the decision to get right.

Velvet Sofas · Jumbo Cord Sofas

Corner sofa price and size do not move together

Corner sofa price and corner sofa size come apart completely in this collection. MH Windsor is one of the larger designs here, at 250 × 250cm, and also one of the lowest-priced; Majestic and Scarlet share its footprint exactly and cost £919.01 more.

The gap buys design and detailing. It does not buy floor area. Monroe, Clara and Amelia are the three smallest designs here, and none is among the six lowest-priced. Amelia sits in the upper half of the price list, Clara in the middle of it. Size is not the variable.

So if space is your constraint, work from the dimensions table. If budget is, start with the six designs under £999 and check the footprint second.

Corner Sofas Under £999

Corner sofas are made to order, not bespoke

Every corner sofa on this page is built after the order is placed. That still does not make it bespoke.

If you can pick it on screen  size, fabric, colour, configuration  it is a standard choice, even though no fabric is cut until the order lands. Two requests fall outside that. Contact M&H if you require a different sofa length or a fabric outside the standard offered range.

What the 10-year frame warranty covers

Every M&H corner sofa carries a 10-year commercial warranty on the internal frame.

The remedy under a covered claim is replacement of the affected covered part. Electrical components and sofa mechanisms fall outside it. The cover is on the frame, so it is worth reading it as what it is rather than as a guarantee on the whole sofa.

M&H Sofa Warranty