Yes, I know there are lots of solutions out there. But tell me what worked for YOU and your couch! I’m sick of having to adjust the couch position every time I sit on it!
We used these things. They worked really well, but some of them did fuse with the hardwood after several years, so when we moved recently I had to use a plastic scraper and some Goo Gone to get the rubber residue off.
Did the residue discolor the hardwood floor in any way?
I can tell you what DOESN’T work - any Dura-grip non-slip pads. It slides less, but doesn’t stop it. I won’t be buying them again.
Is the couch up against a wall or in the middle of the room? I had one against (near) a wall an cut a couple of wooden splits to fit between the feet and the wall so it wouldn’t hit the wall every time I sat down.
Not once I got everything scraped off, no, you couldn’t tell.
I did exactly this with a sectional.
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It’s in the middle of the room. There’s a shelving unit on lockable casters behind it. Eventually we want to get a bigger rug that we can sit at least the front legs on, but we can’t afford it right now.
My couch has fabric flaps so you don’t see the legs. So I screwed a long thin wooden slat to the floor. About an third of an inch high, inch wide, as long as the lenght of the couch. If I have to remove the couch, I lift it up over the slat, otherwise the slat contains the legs where I want them. You could have smaller slats just behind the legs, but that means more screws.
I also screwed a slat to the floor behind the back legs, so the couch keeps a two inch distance from the wall. I fastened a narrow shelf between the couch and the wall, about an inch below the top edge of the couch. Out of sight, but it gives an nice shelf for remote controls, books and tea glasses. And it replaces a coffee table. I hate coffee tables, they’re always in the way.
My couch has exposed legs so I’m looking for as subtle solution as possible.
I just cut some circles out of some black rubber gasket material and put it under the feet.
Cut some balloons to make little rubber leg socks for the couch legs. Cut come rubber shelf liners into disks to match the diameter of the couch’s legs, and slip them underneath.
Scraps of carpet.
My parents had some ‘coasters’ (looked to be be circa 1938) which had a hard cup on the topside and a curved bottom (think part of a large sphere) covered with carpet.
I was too young to understand the purpose. By the time I could appreciate them, we moved into a carpeted house - and i never saw them again.
Have no idea where to look for such a thing - or its modern equivalent.
You know those RUBBER wedge-shaped doorstops? Placing 2 in a ‘V’ shape behind the leg may produce enough friction.