Cozy. Warm. Soft. Almost everyone agrees that’s what they want in a couch. But curved or straight lines ? High or low back? Modern or traditional? It’s hard to find the right one.

Here are some decent choices that I tend to gravitate to. Solid colors, 1-2 seat cushions, soft but not bulky, with fine detail (piping, buttons, hardwood legs).

(top left: pottery barn ‘marcel’, gold/williams ‘baxter’, jonathan adler ‘morrow’, crate and barrel ‘ross’, gold/williams ‘marlena’, room and board ‘jasper’, crate and barrel ‘petrie’, and pottery barn ‘arlington’)