Cheap leather furniture looks nice initially, but the leather will be an unrepairable cracked or flaky mess in about five years. It's disposable on that timesca

Cheap leather furniture looks nice initially, but the leather will be an unrepairable cracked or flaky mess in about five years. It's disposable on that timescale. But good leather furniture is so expensive that the yearly amortized cost of the cheap stuff may still be lower. You're probably better off avoiding leather entirely, unless money is no object.