Next Sunday, Feb. 2nd 2104, is the Super Bowl, starting at 3:30 pm between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos and, if you live in Texas like my family and I do, Super Bowl Sunday is hallowed ground for entertaining and cooking.
Some of my interior design clients here in Midland, Texas ask me to design luxury *mancave* rooms for them. Don’t we all dislike that word? …but that’s what my male clients call it when they request I design a room for them, where they can relax, watch football, play billiards and practice their putting with their friends and spouses. Golf is big here, too, for both men and women.
The room above, designed by Twin Cities Construction, inspired me with its luxurious use of architectural materials and textures, while at the same time being elegant and gracious and incorporating all the features my clients would like to have.
THE PERFECT RECLINER FOR A MANCAVE:
The search for the ultimate recliner, for these types of rooms, especially for those of us that are interior designers, is never easy – especially as the most comfortable ones tend to be notoriously ugly. In addition, once you find one that’s a complimentary blend of masculine and feminine, often the choices for it are limited with respect to colors, fabrics and finishes.
Today, I am going to share with you a recliner I found that I like. { Tomorrow, I will share more recipes with you so that you will be prepared to welcome your family and guests, graciously.}
Is started last fall, when I attended High Point Market and was introduced to a manufacturer that had one of the most comfortable and best looking recliners I’ve seen, with all the options I needed: the AVA by American Leather.
An added bonus is that the company is headquartered in Dallas, making it very easy for my clients here in Midland to get delivery quickly.
Below, I’m sharing with you the AVA in different options.
As a designer, what I especially appreciate is that it can come with both legs and a swivel base and that that they will accept COM fabrics.
Here is the AVA in brown leather -which would look beautiful in my inspiration room above and would be practical when purchased with a treated leather so spills are easily wiped away.
The articulating headrest of the AVA recliner is a feature that makes it very comfortable to watch a big screen TV and still have your head supported properly at the correct angle – especially important for my clients that have their parents visiting or living with them. { I wrote earlier about living with multi-generations. If you missed that post and would like to read it, please click, here. }
This is also the AVA recliner, below, but shown with this articulating headrest feature and in a more modern version:
Here are 2 more pictures of the AVA, recliner, below, the first with a wooden leg option versus the swivel base in the 2nd picture, in a couple of fabric options I think my clients might like. What do you think? Which one do you like best?
I enjoy being able to choose different bases, leather and fabric options to give my clients the comfort they need and the visual uniformity often required in these kinds of rooms, but allowing me the creative freedom I need to design a visually stimulating room for them that’s not populated by 9 identical chairs in the same color.
Another option this company offers is TORAY ‘s Ultrasuede – which has a warranty of 10 years – and is very practical with small children, pets and the elderly and it allows for thousands of colors and combinations.
Here’s the AVA in TORAY Ultrasuede’s pale blue, very similar to Benjamin Moore’s 2014 Color Of The Year.
[ If you are contacting me to design a hospitality project for you here in Texas, where an order of 200 or more yards would be needed, I can also custom design an exclusive TORAY Ultrasuede for you in patterns similar to this one, below, developed exclusively for Hickory Chair. ]
Lastly, here’s another room that inspired me and that I think my female clients could live with, too. I could even enjoy sitting at the bar, watching the Super Bowl on this big screen TV..or, later, Downton Abbey. Could you?
Comfortable recliners are essential for gracious entertaining in a room designed to accomodate the men in our lives and their joys and hobbies and I hope this post has helped you know there are comfortable, beautiful, luxurious options when your husband turns around one day and says to you, “Honey, I’d like a mancave” and you silently cringe.
Have a blessed week ahead as you plan for gracious Super Bowl entertaining with your own family and friends and I invite you to please subscribe to my blog and visit Hadley Court’s homes on the web, here, here , here and on Instagram , here .
Leslie Hendrix Wood
Founder
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