If you picture a La-Z-Boy recliner in your head, you’re probably picturing something close to the Maverick. High biscuit back, sloping padded arms, a seat you sink into rather than perch on.

It has been a staple of the lineup for years. Because it comes in four different base types, though, “the Maverick” isn’t really one chair. It’s four.

Most reclining sofas make a trade. You get the comfort, but you also get the bulk. Thick arms, heavy backs, and a shape that announces itself from the doorway.

The Bennett is La-Z-Boy’s answer to that trade-off. It’s part of the duo® collection, which hides power reclining hardware inside furniture that reads as stationary seating.

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.