How much to you is an arm and a leg? Motion furniture of decent quality is not cheap. I recently came across the invoice for a pair of Flexsteel recliners I bought eight years ago, they were $800 each.
Must have been a sticker shock at the time, because I remembered paying about $75 for a recliner I bought in 1970, but then that one was out for the trash pickup before 1974, as the wooden chair frame broke apart,
Most of the good stuff, the backs come off for transport and delivery, the issue being getting the pieces through doors. But then, what the manufacturers have in mind are 28-30 inch doorways with no immediate tight turns,