Lane Boss Big Man Power Lift Recliner Review 2024

Are you a heavier individual? Have you recently had some surgery or suffer from chronic pain?

Do you have a mobility issue that makes getting in and out of your favorite chair challenging?

You will like what you discover in this review if you answered yes to any of those questions.

The Lane Boss Big Man Power Lift Recliner isn’t your average lift chair. It does everything you’d expect a good lift recliner to do. But as you’ll discover in this review, this model has a few surprises in store that aren’t found on most other chairs.

If you’ve been frustrated in searching for a good recliner built sturdily enough to support you properly, this might be exactly the chair you’ve been searching for. While it’s not a perfect offering, it gets many more things right than wrong. In the following sections, we’ll detail the good and the bad, giving you all the information you need to make an informed purchase decision.

Even if you ultimately decide to go with some other chair, we think you’ll be impressed by the Big Man. If intrigued, read on and see what this one can do!

Key Features of the Lane Boss Big Man 4602 Power Lift Recliner

Big and inviting, with a touch of class and elegance—that’s the first impression most people have of the Lane Boss Big Man Power Lift Recliner when they see it for the first time. The chair looks inviting with its sleek upholstery and abundant cushioning. It almost begs to be sat in and enjoyed. 

Available in neutral colors, it is designed along fairly conventional lines, which means it will blend well with a wide range of home décor schemes. Note, however, that this is a big chair and will tend to dominate whatever room you place it in rather than politely fading into the background, as is often the case with neutral-colored, conventionally designed furniture. This chair is almost sure to get noticed, and it’s easy to turn it into the focal point of the room you set it up in.

Before we proceed with our review, we’d like to note that if you try to search for this chair on Lane’s official website, you won’t find any model named “Boss” or “Big Man.” Instead, you’ll find the 4602 Attila Recliner. So, don’t be confused if we use the names interchangeably in the following sections. 

Chair Specifications

Now, let’s take a quick look at the core stats that define the Boss Big Man. 

As you can see, the chair is certainly aptly named. It’s a hulking piece of furniture, so if you live in a smaller home or apartment or are generally cramped for space, finding a permanent home for it may be challenging.

This is further complicated because the Big Man does not incorporate wall hugger technology into its design. So, you’ll need a good 18” of space between the back of the chair and whatever wall you place it near. Combine that with its impressive 76” length when fully reclined, and you begin to get a sense of the scale of the challenge.

Assuming the sheer size of the chair isn’t a deal-breaker for you, the seat dimensions and seat height will be a good match for a chair with a 450-pound weight capacity. The seat will likely be wide enough to accommodate you comfortably, even if you’re near the top end of the chair’s supported weight limit.

That, paired with the 22” seat height, suggests this chair is optimized for more extensive, taller, heavier users. If you’re short and heavy, this is not the chair you want. The seat dimensions virtually guarantee that your feet won’t touch the floor when sitting back in this chair.

Adjustability & Comfort

This is an infinite-position recliner with two motors: one for the seatback and a separate motor for the footrest. You can recline one, the other, or both to any angle you wish. While the Lane Boss Big Man 4602 Power Lift Recliner doesn’t lay completely flat, it comes pretty close, angling back to about 170 degrees, making it more than capable of being used as a napping chair.

A third motor controls its lift function. All three offer smooth, quiet action that won’t cause you to be jerked or bounced in the chair as it moves from one position to another.

In addition to offering unlimited reclining possibilities, the chair is also very well-padded.

Granted, no advanced comfort materials are used here. It’s strictly spring-supported high-density foam, but there’s quite a lot of it, and the seat is double-stuffed, providing a delightful seating experience.

Upholstery

Lane Furniture offers this recliner in fabric and leather options. Unfortunately, if you’d prefer the leather option, the company made one misstep, in our view: it cladded it in faux leather made of polyester and PU. 

It lacks genuine leather’s strength, durability, and suppleness. From a practical perspective, it will show its age well before you want it to. With heavy daily use, you’ll start noticing peeling and cracking.

With meticulous care, you can probably extend this to about two years. But after that, you’ll need to start thinking about reupholstering. The fact that the upholstery is single-stitched doesn’t help in this regard.

Given the size of this chair and the amount of material required to cover it, reupholstering is likely to be expensive. The good news is that you can select the perfect upholstery when that day inevitably arrives. The frame is durable enough to make this a good investment, and taking the time to do it will dramatically increase the chair’s useful life.

The other problem with faux leather is this: it’s not breathable. If you plan on spending several hours every day in the chair, you will get hotter and sweatier as the day grinds on unless you put a sheet down under yourself. Of course, doing that detracts from the natural beauty of the chair, so it’s a trade-off.

Finally, note that leather, in general, and faux leather, in particular, are not pet-friendly. If you have pets, their claws will puncture your expensive chair’s upholstery in about ten minutes.

But if you want longer-lasting upholstery, we recommend fabric options. The downside is that they are not water-resistant and are not as easy to clean as faux leather. 

Storage & Extras

This is where the Lane Home Furnishings 4602 Lift recliner shines. There are lots of extras on offer here. Most lift recliners have storage pockets on the sides of the chair, and this one is no exception. In addition to that, though, you’ll find:

This last item is a real treat because it allows you to use your laptop, your favorite heating pad, or other devices right from the comfort of the chair without having to bother with running extension cords all over the room.

Moreover, as with most lift chairs, the Big Man features a simple, effective battery backup system powered by 9-volt batteries. If the power should fail while you’re in your recliner, the battery backup system will enable you to engage the lift motor and get your feet back under you without waiting for a rescue.

Heat & Massage Configuration

This recliner is available in two configurations: lift recliner and Lift Recliner Heat and massage. The Heat and Massage recliner version has the same look and specifications as the lift recliner version, except for its frame and the six-motor heat-and-massage capability. 

No Assembly Required

The Big Man comes fully assembled and ready to use, although given its size and weight, getting the chair where you want it may be a challenge if you have mobility issues. 

Unfortunately, Lane does not offer White Glove service. The best you can get is curbside delivery, so you’ll probably want to have an assistant on standby when the chair is delivered so you have an extra pair of hands to get it into the room you plan to use it in.

Pros & Cons of Lane Home Furnishings 4602 Lift Recliner

As we said at the start, the Lane Home Furnishings 4602 Attila recliner is a very good chair. A company with an excellent reputation offers it for post-sales service and support. It’s comfortable, has lots of storage, and has a few other surprises to boot, which makes it incredibly versatile.

We like almost everything about it. In our view, Its one major failing is the poor choice of upholstery materials. We understand the decision. Grain leather would have dramatically increased the price of the chair, and it’s already relatively expensive. Fabric, while much more breathable and a better fit for long-duration seating, would not have provided the same elegant look. 

Nonetheless, our view is that most people who buy lift chairs intend to spend several hours each day in their chair, which makes leather in any form a poor choice, elegant or not.

Final Thoughts: Lane Boss Big Man Power Lift Recliner Review

The Lane Boss Big Man Power Lift recliner is a superb chair, but it will not be for everyone. This chair will swallow you whole if you’re shorter than 5’6”. If you don’t have mobility issues, then there’s no point in paying a premium for the lift feature you won’t use.

Having said that, if you are big, tall, and heavy, you struggle to get out of your chair. If you’re looking for something with tons of storage and the capacity to work and play with your favorite electronic devices from the comfort of your chair, this one’s hard to beat. On that basis, we provisionally recommend it.

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References & Resources

• Lane Furniture, Official Brand Website.
• Fabric for Recovering a Recliner and Sofa, SF Gate.
• Importance of Safety and Design in a Lift Recliner, Lift Chair Guide.
• Approximately How Much Fabric Is Needed to Recover a Recliner?, Hunker.