Hey--

I've got a curved row of berkline 90's (from craigslist), but I'd like to make them a row of 4 but remove the curve (to save space). How hard is it to remove the arms on the 90 series and then add on non curved arms? Thanks!

Taylor34

The arms bolt on. I've not actually done it but I'm reasonably sure its not difficult. I am more concerned about being able to to match what you have (fabric or leather and the color). I am also not certain we sell arms by themselves. I'll need to ask out parts department if this is doable. Do you know the cover (fabric/leather) number and color?

Also, check out the Berkline HT web site. The HT planner can show you the exact difference between the width of a 4 seat curved vs 4 seat straight. I'm just suggesting this so you can be sure its worth the time and expense.

I've reconfigured my 8 chairs a couple times due to changing space limitations. As previously said, the arms bolt on with 4 bolts to pieces of plywood that stick out past the seat cushion on the front and back.

I just cut the plywood to the correct length for the "straight" arm, drilled new holes and bolted them on. I've also had to re-configure one chair that the plywood was cut to hold a straight arm to lengthen them to hold a wedge arm - I just put the original cut piece back on and secured it with an aluminum "U" channel and some mending plates. I didn't have to find straight arms as I was removing 2 arms to have basically 4 chairs configured as 2 love seats. I also put in a second cup holder in the middle arm so that everyone would have a cup holder.

I have 090s that are 5 years old and I'm not sure that the newer chairs still use the plywood; they might use metal instead.

Bob

You won't have much difficulty removing an arm, but as Bowman721 pointed out, you cannot buy arms separately. I might suggest doing this if you want to save space and assuming you have the right chairs to do it.

If you have |OVOVOVO|, you may be able to remove the middle arm rest to form |OVOOVO|. Plus, wives and girlfriends usually like the fact that there is a love seat in the center of the setup. Good luck.

taylor34,

You will not be able to easily remove the armrest. You would need to replace the metal bars that the armrest(s) seat on for the shorter ones, and the Berkline does not sell these parts any longer due to warranty issues.

I like Ken's solution. It's simple, easy and safe. I spoke with our parts department. In order to do this correctly, we would need to know when the furniture was manufactured. The replacement parts will differ depending on the manufacture date. In addition to new arms, you would have to purchase new base rails (these differ between curved and straight pieces). Bottom line: in can be done but its more complicated than simply unbolting one arm and bolting a new one on.

Randy Bowman
Berkline

I was reminded to add one more note. Since you bought the furniture used, the warranty no longer applies. But if you had purchased these new, any modification like this would void the warranty.

Randy Bowman
Berkline

My current row of 3 is a curved row with arms all in between. I was hoping to remove the two curved arms (making a really long couch for a moment) then buy a chair with two normal arms, one that I'll remove (therefore making the chair-loveseat-chair config). Sounds like that is possible, I'd just have to do some research into how old my chairs are. Thanks for the input guys--I'll have to call Berkline when I order that last chair to make sure that I get the correct pieces to attach the arm to an older recliner.

Taylor34

Taylor34,

It will not work. Each recliner has metal rails on the bottom. The armrests are seating on those rails. Beacuse of that each rail has different length (depending on the piece). When you take the armrest off those rails will be sticking out, so you cannot really use it as an armless piece. You need to replace these rails with the shorter ones. If I am not mistaken the chairs with the wedges also have different length bars from the ones that come with the chairs that have straight armrests. You literally need to replace the rails and get the ones with the appropriate length.

Unfortunately as I mentioned before the Berkline does not sell these rails any longer due to warranty issues.

Taylor34,

It will not work. Each recliner has metal rails on the bottom. The armrests are seating on those rails. Beacuse of that each rail has different length (depending on the piece). When you take the armrest off those rails will be sticking out, so you cannot really use it as an armless piece. You need to replace these rails with the shorter ones. If I am not mistaken the chairs with the wedges also have different length bars from the ones that come with the chairs that have straight armrests. You literally need to replace the rails and get the ones with the appropriate length.

Unfortunately as I mentioned before the Berkline does not sell these rails any longer due to warranty issues.

Thanks for the info. I got confused when you said they didn't and then the berkline guy chimed in and said that they would work and that they sold the rails. Guess my plans won't work unless I do some major hacking and swapping of parts from other users.

Taylor34