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Fake Leather sofas???

I am wondering how a faux leather couch holds up. How it does with time after its been used, with people sitting, stains, scratches, things like that. Will it still look ok after some time?? I'm looking into getting a couch that is fake leather upholstery.

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I, too, am interested in the fake leather. I have some real leather furniture and while it has held up pretty well, I have a couch that I've had for 8 years that just looks awful because my animals have scratched it up - I'm sure that if one of my kids were to stab it with a pencil, that would also make a hole in it, I don't really know if that is unique to fake leather. And my two toddlers love to jump on it and have also been known to take washable magic markers too it (washed off, but I'm sure that having washable markers helped with that). I also have a chair that was purchased at the same time and so far it looks good, but my animals don't sleep on it like they do on the couch. We have fake leather bar stools that we have probably only had for 3 or 4 years but we use them a lot for meal time and the kids spill all sorts of food on them and they are just as easy to clean as the real leather and they still look like new. Not the same use as a couch I know, but still, I haven't noticed anything staining them (of course, they are black). Maybe there are differences between good quality faux leather furniture and bad quality faux leather furniture? Not sure that this really answers your question, but I think that if you know that your couch is going to take a lot of abuse, maybe paying more for real leather isn't worth it. If I'm correct, another answer indicated that, with normal use a faux leather couch will last 8 years, and while my use probably isn't normal with my animals, that's how long my expensive leather couch has lasted.
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faux leather will start to crack with time (tiny small cracks/splits in the leather seating area mostly) this occurs at about 8 years if you use the sofa a lot.

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