Sofa beds are perhaps the most exciting piece of furniture in your house, bar none. There is nothing more amazing or more impressive in the furniture world. These wonders of design don't just sit there being pretty like a sofa or a bed. Oh no, they move, they are alive. And, they come in many shapes, sizes, and configurations. They also come in a wide variety of upholstery: all sorts of fabrics, leather, fur, vinyl, denim, micro fiber, or just about any other covering material you can think of.
So let's break this down a little bit. A sofa bed is really two pieces of furniture in one. A sofa and a bed. A sofa alone is functional. It serves as a resting place. People plop up and down on them all day long without much of a thought. They make a great place for watching tv or for reading a book. They even act as a refuge for hubby when he gets in trouble. He may even spend a night or two on it, but generally speaking, the sofa is nothing special. It just sits there, no movement or anything. I mean, couldn't it be more? Of course it can.
A bed, while certainly home to a wide variety of, uh, activities, and a really useful and needed piece of furniture, is nonetheless just a static piece that really doesn't do much. I'm not knocking beds, I just think sofa beds are such a great improvement that a regular bed just doesn't hold a candle to them on their own.
When you combine the sofa and the bed together you experience how one plus one can equal three. It's the best of both worlds. A place to sit and talk and a place to sleep all in the same place.
When you think of sofa beds, think variety and options. You can find more than just the traditional couch looking bed. Manufacturers actually make these in a lot of different sizes and configurations. On the large side of things, they are offered as part of sectionals, those large curved couches that usually have a recliner on one or both ends. These are great because the bed can be conveniently pulled out to use the floor space in front of the sectional. No need to have a completely separate bed set up. On the small side of things, you can get a convertible chair bed that is about the size of a single mattress. They also come in the popular futon style sofa beds. Overall, the sofa bed has come a long ways from the early days, they are much more comfortable and stylish.
If you want to save space, have an extra place for guests to sleep without setting up a whole new bed or having to have an extra guest room, or if you just want to experience the magic of the most exciting piece of furniture alive, then you owe it to yourself to experience what sofa beds have to offer. When you do, you'll never be the same again. Every time you walk into the room where your sofa bed lives you'll just get a little grin on your face. You may even find yourself talking to it and touching it just out of shear love and admiration.