The journey to making a dream home reality is rarely straightforward. Sure, flat-packed furniture and showroom sets may be an easy solution when putting together an interior design, but they don’t always fit the way we actually live or how we want our homes to look.
At the same time, homes today come in all shapes and sizes, from compact apartments to sprawling landed properties. Oftentimes, standard furniture doesn’t make the most of the available space — particularly so in smaller rooms, where every square metre counts.

Customised pieces can be made with specific fabrics and finishes to tie them in with other elements of a home. They can also be designed to fit one’s actual routines and preferences, not to mention floor-plan constraints like awkward corners and narrow corridors.
In this way, customising furniture offers a way to maximise both visual balance and utility. There are also intangible benefits to a custom piece; knowing that it has been made specifically for one’s home gives it a story and emotional weight that store-bought items can’t easily match.
To this end, Australian furniture brand King Living offers customisation options across all aspects of its sofas, from shape and size to fabric, finish and functionality.

Take, for instance, the Jasper sofa, which has picked up numerous accolades, including four Australian Good Design Awards and the Chicago Good Design Award. Introduced in 2003, this is King Living’s most customisable design; just about everything about it can be tailored to fit any style or type of home.
Pick from feathers, memory foam or firm cushions for different comfort levels. The armrests come either upholstered or with timber shelving, and wireless charging pads and LED lighting can be added, plus integrated storage beneath the seats.

A patented component system means the Jasper can be reconfigured in all sorts of ways. Seats, armrests, backrests and shelves can be rearranged to turn the sofa into separate pieces or even a guest bed.
This modularity, seen across most of King Living’s sofas, allows for better flexibility as one’s needs evolve. Additional modules can be pieced together to create something for larger groups — a feature that’s especially important for those seeking more mileage out of their furniture.
For upholstery, King Living offers removable covers in over 200 textiles — velvets, bouclés and leathers, to name a few. Each is designed and chosen by the brand specifically to be cohesive across the collection, so they can easily be mixed and matched. Replacement covers can also be ordered through the King-Care team as and when things need to be switched up.

To increase material cohesion, King Living has four timber options for legs and finishes: natural oak, smoked oak, onyx and American walnut.
Smart accessories can also be integrated into many of King Living’s sofas, including the Jasper, Cloud and Kato. In addition to having essentials within close reach, the optional Smart Pocket allows for the integration of lamps and speaker brackets, without the clutter from extra cables.
Of course, even as such design details are tailored to suit homeowners’ needs, King Living retains its high standards of build quality on the inner workings of each piece.
Every sofa comes with the brand’s signature precision-engineered steel frame, which provides a robust yet flexible foundation; this frame is backed by a 25-year warranty. There’s also the Postureflex seating system, which takes inspiration from the suspension systems of luxury European cars for enhanced comfort and support.
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