Blue is the colour people choose when the sofa underneath is the problem. It is dark enough to hide what a sofa collects, cool enough not to fight a warm room, and common enough in cushions and throws that you will find something to put on top of it.
Navy hides the most and shows lint the fastest, especially with a pale dog in the house. The mid and slate blues are the practical middle: they take marks without announcing them and they do not need a lint roller kept on the arm.
Five fits, from an armchair to an oversized sofa. Measure across the back of your sofa, outer arm to outer arm, and buy to that number rather than to the number of seats — seat counts vary by maker and inches do not. Quilted throughout with a non-slip backing, and a cold wash returns it to where it started.
