They offer contemporary recliners, but also retro, classic, and just about everything in between. They don’t have as many headline grabbing offerings as La-Z-Boy have come up with over the years, but they do have a good range of recliners and if there’s not something that takes your fancy then we’d be truly surprised.

At one end of the scale is the Marseille Hi-Leg Recliner, which offers a classic look and would not feel out of place in our grandparents home.

Another member of the Lane Recliner ‘classics’ range is the Julia Hi-Leg Recliner. With a flared back and bentwood arm with a natural finish, this is totally different in flavor to the Marseille, and has a very classic look about it, the sweeping arms of the chair are a real stand-out feature.

Then, at the other end of the scale is “The Rebel” lane recliner. The Rebel is a leather recliner with co-ordinated leather ottoman in the same plush finish. This is much more of a contemporary recliner, something that wouldn’t be amiss in many modern households, and it looks really, really comfy.

The Angelo Leather Essentials Recliner features a swivel base and reclining back, with the added bonus of a correlating ottoman. This is more sleek and simple than The Rebel. And the choices go on and on.

Lane Furniture has been around since the early 1970s, and have established themselves as a market leader and a strong competitor in the Lazy Boy Furniture market.

This recliner offers eight preprogrammed massage programs, including Full Body Sore Muscle Relief; Sports & Back Therapy; Leg-Foot-Hip Therapy; Neck-Shoulders Relief; After-Work Stretch; Morning Wake-Up and Nighttime Soothing. Programs are accompanied by the Acupoint Detection System to ensure an accurate, personally targeted massage. There are also seven intensity levels you can chose to suit your mood.

This fantastically clever recliner features backrest heaters, so there’s no need to sit down in a cold leather chair, plus it can help relax tender muscles to aid the massage process of the chair the manufacturers also claim that a pulsating armrest vibration can improve circulation.

The chair, as well as being a really clever massage chair, is sold as a really comfortable automatic recliner, which can be adjusted at the touch of a button. While being promoted on its health benefits, this chair is surely just a great way to relax in style while imagining the leather chair pressing the flesh on your back is your dream masseur or masseuse, now THAT’s lazy boy furniture heaven.

Broadway is one of many modular seating systems that La-Z-Boy have produced over the years, and it’s the kind of seating that only the most privileged of lazy boys can indulge in, home cinema seating!

Home cinema seating could quite possibly the ideal form of lazy boy furniture, however we haven’t previously featured it due to it’s quite exclusive and limited nature. This stuff belongs in your home cinema setup, and unfortunately for the rest of us, home cinemas are still not in everyone’s financial grasp!

The Broadway looks superb, with so many choices and chances to personalise the chairs and ‘wedge consoles’, which can be storage compartments, drinks holders and tray tables all in one, heaven. Who wouldn’t LOVE to settle down in one of these fantastic recliners, with your favourite beverage and a ton of popcorn in the comfort of your own home?! Bring it on, PLEASE!

Lazy Boy Furniture.

So, you look for your ideas and inspirations for your perfect piece of Lazy Boy Furniture online. But be warned, all may NOT be as it first appears. It is our advice to consider online furniture shopping in a very similar way to how you would consider buying from a catalog, and if you’re considering purchasing from somewhere like eBay, perhaps via our own Lazy Boy Furniture Store, consider the situation very much like buying from free ads in your newspaper, but without the luxury of being able to feel the leather, test the recliner mechanism, or anything else before you part with your hard earned cash.

If you’re buying online from a recognized and well respected furniture store, or even other kind of established retailer, then you will probably have the confidence to buy online without worrying if the company will be around in a month when your seat cushions fall apart (not that they will, we’re just saying they might). But if you’re considering purchasing from a less familiar online furniture retailer, we would suggest you are more cautious. Legitimate retailers will not mind if you phone them first to check their contact number (not a cell phone either) is real, and they wont mind if you want to ask a few questions about returns policy and warranties.

The other obvious draw back of buying your Lazy Boy Furniture online is the fact you cant try before you buy. That contemporary recliner may look good in a quarter page jpeg image, but what if it feels cheap and flakey, or what if that luxurious leather recliner actually reminds you of the worst faux leather seats from the 70s?

This is how we would do it. Shop in real stores, get up off your chair and get your behind into lots of demo chairs at the high street, and even out of town furniture stores. Ask around, get opinions from trusted friends and sources you know you’ve agreed with in the past. When you’re confident you’ve found the seating solution for you, THEN you can always get back to the comfort of your own PC chair and start searching online for bargains.

You’re going to be sitting in your lazy boy furniture for some time to come, all being well, so it’s got to be worth the effort to get out there and try a few out before making a snap decision online. And when you do buy online, buyer beware, and you could get a real bargain.

Contender number one, the Sofa, aks couch. A piece of seating so popular they had to name it twice. The sofa is an ever present in most homes today, if people only have one chair, that chair tends to be a couch. Sofas are social seating, good for cuddling up on, good for sharing a pizza on while watching the sport on TV. In fact, a group of lazy boys stuffed into a couch, pizza and beer at the ready, watching their favourite game on the TV is pretty much lazy boy heaven. So the couch is a strong contender for the crown.

The downside is that they also attract women, this isn’t always a bad thing, but often you’re expected to ‘budge over’ or ‘make room’ for your better half when all you want to do is stretch out and relax in front of the box. So sharing your personal space, while often lovely, can also be counted as a mark against.

The Chaise Longue is our wildcard entry. It’s a chair for one, but the size of a sofa, so surely it’s ideal for your average lazy boy? However, there is one major drawback. They’re girl’s chairs. No idea why, they just air. You get them in hallways, and they come in more floral patterns than varieties of cow hide. Then there’s the poncey name. Girl’s chairs cannot be lazy boy furniture heaven.

The Arm Chair is another obvious entry. But an armchair is just a recliner with functions removed, or a shrunken couch, depending on how you look at it. Old people like armchairs, not lazy boys. So again, nice try, but in general, not a chance.

Gaming chairs must be strong contenders, you sit there wasting your time playing computer games, what more could you want in a piece of lazy boy furniture? Well, maybe comfort. Gaming chairs in general are like arcade machines with the capsule removed. Not great for lounging in. So close, but no cigar.

The Recliner. The recliner surely is the ideal lazy boy furniture. They come in all shapes and sizes, leather, fabric, they usually include a foot rest, and can even give you a massage. What more could you want?! The only downside is the room many recliners can occupy in your room, so you’ll need a bigger lounge if you want the fellas around to watch the big game together. But maybe it’s worth it anyway?!