Where to buy a sofa bed… fankyouverrymuch

Who's going to sleep on it and how often? I 'slept' on a fairly expensive brand new JL one and it was awful. Wasn't sprung and was rock hard with annoying wooden railing on three sides to bash yourself on. We purchased a swyft sofa for our main sofa that is also a sofa bed and I've slept on it a few times and it's really comfy because it's sprung and has a soft topper layer. Folds down to a flat bed with no annoying sides. Was well over your budget but they may do more basic ones.

We bought a large 2 seater sofa bed from DFS last year. Has had good feedback from guests who have used it so far. I've used it a couple of times as well, no complaints here. We paid £649 so a little bit north of your budget.

I have a sofa bed in the music room. It's excellent. Comfortable as a sofa (always sit on it to play guitar) and extremely comfortable as a bed - according to couples who've stayed for a few nights. It's a standard double mattress and opens up into a proper height double bed. I wanted one without arms but they do a variety.

It's a Funky Futon "Shipley". In the spec I got it, with Mem Flex mattress and the Aquaclean upholstery it's now £582 including delivery.

The slats can be felt when sitting on it for an hour or so if you're a 92kg bloke but a thin yoga mat slipped underneath the seating area has solved that.

Theres that big Swedish place that sells meatballs and the odd bit of furniture, they might have sofa beds.

Actually they do cos I bought one from there. Looks similar to big johns, no arms but makes a very comfy decent size bed. This is the one we have, but without the cover as we got the frame out of the bargain corner and bought the matress seprarately.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lycksele-loevas-2-seat-sofa-bed-vansbro-dark-grey-s19387134/

Sofa beds - you either get a choice of a comfy sofa, or a comfy bed.  But you don't seem to be able to get both...So decide if you or your guests are more important.

Have you thought about a day bed?  They seem a bit better at both

Can you go wider? If so then something that you sleep across rather than out/along (ie the width of the sofa is the length of the bed) works better at the cheaper end IMO. We have the IKEA Hemnes daybed in our spare room/office, it does fine at both particularly if you get the better pocket sprung mattresses. Plus usually we just have one person sleeping on it so no folding out, just take the cushions off, add a pillow and duvet and you're good to go.

The sort with a frame that folds out into the room will be horrible at that price (but you could probably get a decent one secondhand), and the ones with three bits of foam that stack on each other are awful for both sitting and sleeping.

My parents have a Cocoon which I can thoroughly recommend but they're about 3x the budget.

Sofa.com has an outlet shop on the top floor of House of Frazer in Doncaster. If they have something you want, it’ll be cheap. Pot luck though, the whole shop is like a jumble sale of the various Ashley brands, bargains to be had but you need to sort through the dross.

We have the IKEA Hemnes daybed in our spare room/office

We have a couple of those little miracles of design - A daybed that opens out to make a nice size double bed and still manages to have loads of storage. I quite like the foam mattresses as well – I find them really comfortable.

Thanks all... I'll liaise with the chief and figure something out..

Thank you for narrowing down the search!

DrP

We had an Ikea Hemnes too. Wouldn't buy it again because it's a bit ugly imo but it was practical. We cheaped out on the mattresses (in retrospect) - thicker would have been better. Can be a good idea to buy the frame second hand but the mattresses new (and not from Ikea).

We now have a Ligne Roset that our very generous neighbour gave to us. It is very fashionable. It's crap as a sofa and crap as a bed!

I seem to remember that at one point IKEA were responsible for 20% off all uk furniture sales from 6 shops.

So I’d go to IKEA, where we have bought sofas and beds, but not a sofa bec

Got one of these earlier this year when on sale, as seemed stable and fitted the space. It is a small for a double but ok for odd night. The sofa is firm but comfortable enough for occasional use. Had more choice of colours when we bought ours though.

We ordered from store and managed to get delivery charge knocked off.

https://www.dfs.co.uk/cologne/d5712jptf

IKEA do a few other designs of that daybed now (Brimnes, Flekke, or the steel framed Fyresdal) if the Hemnes look doesn't suit.

We are happy with the IKEA Hemnes one. Found a YouTube video which covered the assembly far better than the instructions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3F6-Ym8lsmU