The Greyson is one of those sofas people notice before they sit on it. It has soft curves, a low profile, and none of the bulk you might expect from a reclining sofa. Then you sit down, and the recline surprises you.

It has stayed on La-Z-Boy’s best-selling sofa list for years now. So it’s worth understanding what makes it work — and where it doesn’t.

Isabella Orbe is from the Lake Norman community outside Charlotte, North Carolina. She’s always been creative and hands-on — by her own admission, she’s never met an arts and crafts project she didn’t like. A beginner interior design class in high school was the turning point: it was the first time she realized that being creative and hands-on could be a career, not just a hobby.

Kamden Deines is from Savannah, Georgia. She grew up painting and drawing, but always thought of it as a hobby rather than a career. It wasn’t until she started exploring majors at university that it came together — interior design struck her as the perfect blend of the artistic and the technical.

Sydney Hooper is from Huntersville, North Carolina. Her path to interior design started on a college tour — she had visited plenty of campuses that all blurred together, but High Point University was different. When the school described its belief in creating an environment that inspires, prepares, and makes you feel at home, something clicked. She wanted to help other people find that same feeling in their own spaces.