One of our downstairs rooms, originally the parlour, isn’t working for us quite as it should. Its function now is more akin to a library or snug. Currently, we have it furnished with bookshelves, specimen table, industrial drawers and two antique leather sofas.
We want to make it a more adaptable and comfortable space in which to spend time. We’ve been looking at the range of grey compact sofa beds available to buy. It’s probably the smallest room in the house, so getting a sofa / occasional double bed in there is a hard ask.
The room, wall-to-wall, measures about 429cm x 193cm. That means that if you extend the sofa out to form the bed along the length of the room – as would seem obvious from the dimensions – it would block both of the doors in/out of the room. Therefore, the sofa bed will have to pull out from the opposite direction – i.e. either 90º clockwise or anticlockwise. Consequently, the length of the bed can’t extend further than the aforementioned 193cm.
As you can see from the measurements we’ve included for each of the models, two of the three compact sofa beds that we’ve featured today extend beyond that ‘magic 193’. The Kip version is a mere centimetre out, with the ALGO, it’s a whole 5cm. I’d think that the mattress of the former could easily be wedged in snugly; the latter… perhaps not. Besides, as we have a guest double bedroom, whatever sofa bed we decide on will only be used as a bed on the rare occasion that we have more than two people staying overnight.
- Freya folding sofa bed, grey: £250.00, Homebase
Sofa: (h)80cm x (w)120cm x (d)90cm
Bed: (h)42cm x (w)120cm x (l)190cm - ALGO 2-seater small double folding sofa bed with cushion, grey fabric: £319.99, Daals
Sofa: (h)88cm x (w)123cm x (d)88cm
Bed: (h)31cm x (w)123cm x (l)198cm - John Lewis & Partners Kip small double sofa bed, Riley Storm: £399.20, John Lewis
Sofa: (h)70cm x (w)120cm x (d)84cm
Bed: (h)70cm x (w)120cm x (l)194cm
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