La-Z-Boy Greyson Leather Rocker Recliner Review 2024

Does your back hurt all the time? If it does, you’re certainly not alone. Chronic back pain impacts tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Unfortunately, your posture plays a big role in your ongoing back troubles, and the odds are that the furniture in your home isn’t helping. Most of it is poorly designed, at least from an ergonomic standpoint, which means that when you’re using it, you’re not getting the support you need, and much of it promotes poor posture.

Even if you use ergonomic furniture at work, any benefit you might see is being undone by the hours you spend sitting in poorly designed furniture at home.

The market has changed in recent years, and many companies now offer ergonomically designed recliners. While many companies selling these are usually smaller, less well-known brands, big names are starting to get in on the action. The La Z Boy Greyson collection is proof of that.

While it’s not a perfect chair, it has a very strong design and is a solid value for the money.

In the sections that follow here in our La Z Boy Greyson Leather Recliner review, we’ll tell you everything about the chair, both the good and the bad, so you’ll have all the information you need to decide if it’s the model you’ve been looking for.  

Sounds good? Let’s jump right in, then!

Key Features of the Greyson Leather Rocker and Recliner by La-Z-Boy

The first thing you’ll notice about the La Z Boy Greyson recliner is that it’s not the best-looking chair on the market. It’s not outright ugly, but you can tell that the design team spent most of their effort making a comfortable, functional chair rather than something that looked amazing.

If aesthetics are important to you, the Greyson will be underwhelming. If comfort and functionality matter more, its lack of striking design features won’t be off-putting.

Its bland design is one of the reasons we gave the model such high marks in aesthetic flexibility. Because it’s not striking, it doesn’t stand out, which makes it easy for the Greyson to blend in seamlessly with your existing décor, no matter what it might be.

This is aided by the chair’s charcoal and java split-grain leather upholstery. The two color options are underwhelming, but both are subdued, earthy tones that make it easy for the Greyson to blend in with your existing décor and color scheme.

A warning: It’s a fairly big piece of furniture, measuring 43” x 38.5” x 41” and weighing 95 pounds, which might make it too big to fit comfortably into homes with smaller living rooms.

Adjustability & Comfort

The La Z Boy Greyson Leather Recliner offers a surprising amount on this front. In addition to being a comfortable, well-padded recliner, it also offers the following features:

If you order the motorized chair version, the recline action will be smooth and quiet. Even better, La-Z-Boy offers it, so if you ever have any problems with it, you’ll have no trouble getting post-sales support.

Put all the factors above together, and you end up with a remarkably robust and comfortable chair. More than anything, this makes the La-Z-Boy Greyson Power recliner such a strong value for the money. 

Storage & Extras

While the chair doesn’t offer storage pockets, its rocking, and ability to be ordered in manual or motorized configurations (as discussed in the previous section) could be considered extras. Since we already mentioned them, we’ll keep this section of our La Z Boy Greyson Sofa review short and refer you back to the above.

No Assembly Required

This is a surprisingly strong selling point for the La Z Boy Greyson Reclina-Rocker recliner.  

Many lounge chairs we’ve reviewed on this site require at least some assembly. While a few companies offer “White Glove” service and professional assembly for an additional charge, the fact is that only a small minority of customers ever take advantage of it, which means that in practice, most people get stuck having to put their furniture together on their own.

It’s annoying. It’s time-consuming. It’s not fun, and Greyson takes all that off the table. It arrives. You put it where you want it, and you sit down. The end. What’s not to like about that?

Pros & Cons of the La Z Boy Greyson Leather Recliner

As our La Z Boy Greyson Recliner review shows, there’s much to like about the chair.

The leather rocker-recliner is super convenient in that no assembly is required. The chair arrives at your doorstep ready to enjoy. 

It can be ordered in either motorized or manual (lever-action) configuration and blends well with almost any home décor scheme. It also rocks and reclines (in two different positions, no less), and a well-known, well-respected company offers it.

The only two negatives are that it’s not an especially attractive chair and a bit pricey. The fact that it’s not beautiful works in its favor in one respect, though. 

The problem with striking designs is that they tend to have a specific aesthetic that sometimes makes the chair stick out like a sore thumb. That’s not the case here at all. The Greyson will, in many cases, disappear into the background.

La Z Boy Greyson Reviews Conclusion

Although the La Z Boy Greyson Leather Recliner isn’t the highest-ranked ergonomic recliner we’ve ever reviewed, it will probably be most people’s emotive favorite because such a recognizable brand offers it.

We recommend it to anyone. It might not be the greatest-looking chair ever created, but it’s comfortable and easy to use. While its unobtrusive design won’t win any awards, that can be considered a strength, given the ease with which it will blend with almost any home décor. 

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Official Manufacturer Support

References & Resources:

• La-Z-Boy Greyson, Official Brand Website.
• How Does a Rocking Chair Benefit Your Health, WellnessKeen.
• Sitting or Standing at Work: Why a Good Chair Matters Either Way, Inc.