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Best sectional couches you can get delivered to your home
Castlery
Do you spend a lot of time with friends and family sitting on the living room sofa? Need a bigger couch than you already have? Haven’t been furniture shopping in a few years? Then it’s time for a furniture upgrade. There are plenty of eye-catching sectionals available online right now, including ones you can customize to your living room.
To help you modernize your living space, our furniture experts scoured the internet to find the best top-rated sectionals that you can have shipped directly to your home. Here are our top picks for 2024.
The best sectional couches in 2024
A sectional is a couch that’s made up of modular units. Typically, a sectional is arranged in an L-shape or U-shape. But you can also use sectional pieces separately, or configure them in a more custom way. Sectionals have the benefit of being as big or as small as you need them to be.
Below, the coziest and highest-rated sectionals for your family living room, available to order online at Wayfair, Castlery, Anthropologie and more. Find sectionals in a range of colors, styles and sizes. There are even pit sectionals that the whole family can lay down on ahead.
Best budget sectional: Homall modern U-Shape sectional sofa
Walmart
This budget sectional recently went viral on TikTok and sold out, but it’s back in stock now — and it’s on sale. If you’re ready to upgrade your living room, you’ll want to act fast before Walmart sells out again.
The U-shaped sectional comfortably seats four people, with two standard couch seats and two chaise seats. The velvet sectional has loose back pillows for a sophisticated yet cozy look on a budget.
“I am pleasantly surprised by the high quality of this couch!” a Walmart reviewer says. “It looks elegant and is very comfy. I can’t believe it’s so inexpensive.”
Note that there is a $99 charge for shipping this item.
Dimensions: 110.2″ L x 50″ W x 33.4″ H
Best pit sofa: Home by Sean and Catherine Lowe Chelsea 6-piece upholstered sectional
Wayfair
After “Bachelor” stars Sean and Catherine Lowe commissioned a pit-like sofa, their Instagram followers wanted one of their own. Now the duo sells this pit sofa at Wayfair in two colors.
The medium-firm couch is ideal for movie night (or for watching reality TV), seating up to six people comfortably.
The Home by Sean and Catherine Lowe Chelsea 6-piece upholstered sectional is rated 4.6 stars at Wayfair. The sale price listed includes in-room white glove delivery.
Dimensions: 120″ L x 80″ W x 40″ H
Best high-end look-alike sectional: Janeen wide reversible modular sofa and chaise
Wayfair
This sectional by Grayleigh has the look of a more upscale couch (think Restoration Hardware), but at less than half the price. It features pillow seat tops and seats three.
Don’t worry about its light color — the fabric is moisture-repellent and stain-resistant.
This sofa is currently $2,500, reduced from $3,396. White glove delivery is included in the price.
Dimensions: 141″ L x 47″ W x 38″ H
Best sectional for small spaces: Anthropologie Katina petite chaise sectional
Anthropologie
Think a sectional is out of the question just because you have a small space? Think again.
This made-to-order chaise sectional from Anthropologie is relatively small and can be customized with different fabrics, colors and orientations. The fabric couches come with two throw pillows.
Allow five months for delivery of your custom sectional. White glove delivery starts at $149.
Dimensions: 84″ L x 63″ W x 34″ H
Best low-back sectional: Anthropologie relaxed Saguaro
Anthropologie
This gorgeous low-back sofa by Anthropologie comes in standard colorways, or you can customize your own (though delivery times for custom sofas are about 5 months out).
Choose the chaise’s orientation, the sofa size, the fabric type and color and the leg finish at Anthropologie. White glove delivery starts at $149.
Dimensions: 108.75″ L x 62.5″ W x 32.25″ H
Best customizable modular sectional: Burrow Range four-piece sectional lounger
Burrow
Choose from four fabric colors and three leg finishes in this sectional lounger from Burrow. Thanks to its modular design, you can add more pieces as your family grows.
The couch’s fabric is stain-resistant.
This sectional is currently $1,499, reduced from $1,799. You can add an attachable ottoman for $259, reduced from $325. Free shipping is included.
Dimensions: 91.5″ L x 60.5″ W x 28″ H
Best sectional deal: Arhaus Coburn six-piece pit sectional
Arhaus
This splurge-worthy pit-sectional option is stain- and spill-resistant. You can arrange it how you want thanks to its modular design.
Choose from eight colors in the Coburn six-piece pit sectional. You can order swatches ahead of time.
This contemporary sectional is currently $4,999, reduced from $7,399. White glove delivery starts at $299.
Dimensions: 124″ L x 81″ W x 28″ H
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have required new cars to beep at drivers if they exceed the speed limit in an effort to reduce traffic deaths.
California would have become the first to require such systems for all new cars, trucks and buses sold in the state starting in 2030. The bill would have mandated that vehicles beep at drivers when they exceed the speed limit by at least 10 mph.
The European Union has passed similar legislation to encourage drivers to slow down. California’s proposal would have provided exceptions for emergency vehicles, motorcycles and motorized scooters.
In explaining his veto, Newsom said federal law already dictates vehicle safety standards and adding California-specific requirements would create a patchwork of regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety “is also actively evaluating intelligent speed assistance systems, and imposing state-level mandates at this time risks disrupting these ongoing federal assessments,” the Democratic governor said.
Opponents, including automotive groups and the state Chamber of Commerce, said such regulations should be decided by the federal government, which earlier this year established new requirements for automatic emergency braking to curb traffic deaths. Republican lawmakers also said the proposal could make cars more expensive and distract drivers.
The legislation would have likely impacted all new car sales in the U.S., since the California market is so large that car manufacturers would likely just make all of their vehicles comply.
California often throws that weight around to influence national and even international policy. The state has set its own emission standards for cars for decades, rules that more than a dozen other states have also adopted. And when California announced it would eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, major automakers soon followed with their own announcement to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles.
Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, who sponsored the bill, called the veto disappointing and a setback for street safety.
“California should have led on this crisis as Wisconsin did in passing the first seatbelt mandate in 1961,” Wiener said in a statement. “Instead, this veto resigns Californians to a completely unnecessary risk of fatality.”
The speeding alert technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, uses GPS to compare a vehicle’s pace with a dataset of posted limits. If the car is at least 10 mph over, the system emits a single, brief, visual and audio alert.
The proposal would have required the state to maintain a list of posted speed limits, and it’s likely that those would not include local roads or recent changes in speed limits, resulting in conflicts.
The technology has been used in the U.S. and Europe for years. Starting in July, the European Union will require all new cars to have the technology, although drivers would be able to turn it off. At least 18 manufacturers including Ford, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan, have already offered some form of speed limiters on some models sold in America, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 10% of all car crashes reported to police in 2021 were related to speeding. This was especially a problem in California, where 35% of traffic fatalities were speeding-related — the second highest in the country, according to a legislative analysis of the proposal.
Last year the NTSB recommended federal regulators require all new cars to alert drivers when they speed. Their recommendation came after a crash in January 2022, when a man with a history of speeding violations ran a red light at more than 100 mph and struck a minivan, killing himself and eight other people.
