Cyfree,
Thanks for the advice. We live in a pretty isolated area of Oregon (I'm 50 miles from the nearest furniture store) and I doubt there are any local building codes. We don't have any Ikeas near us that I know of and I already asked about sectionals and was told they wouldn't work...
We are planning to finish our basement and set up a family room. The problem is that the basement stairs are only 24 inches wide at the narrowest point. I spoke to a furniture store sales manager and he told me that there were no sofas that would fit down those stairs. Are there any...