The deep blue velvet is beautiful. This is not a couch you can flop on with force - the sturdiness is questionable. I think the firm seat cushion is comfortable. The legs are plastic- I’ll soon be looking for different legs. I was able to manage getting this couch, in the box, off of my front porch into the back of a pickup truck, off of the truck and on a dolly, then wheel it into my office. I put it together myself but I now realize why there is a recommendation for 2 people to put it together. It’s not necessarily the weight - it is the placing of the seat so that it evenly slides into the arms. It seems it would be easy to slide the arms onto the sides of the couch, but you have to lift the seat so it slides down into the connectors on the arms. And the zipper that connects the cloth of the seat to the back is tricky to align.