It might be a little off topic but do you have any ideas for providing guests a reasonable nights sleep and also having a good seating area for the other 99% of the time. I’ve had those awful 1 ton sofas and lumpy, uncomfortable futons. I want to encourage guests to visit but we also really need to keep this as a working family room.
Dorothy
Hi, Dorothy. In short, YES! (And your question is totally ON topic – this is what bossy blog is for.)
When I was in the Miami Design District recently, I popped into a Dileto showroom precisely because good sofabeds are so hard to come by. Their tagline is, “the perfect sofabed.” A challenge if ever I heard one.
Well guess what? Dileto actually may be worthy of the hyperbole.
If I understand correctly, you choose a style, and then a size: chair, love seat, sofa, twin bed, full, queen, or king. They have a huge selection of leathers and fabrics to choose from, too. (Ignore the blue leather above – never a good idea, blue leather – but I like the shape of that sofa. It’s the “Brando.”)
The sofas – and sectionals – adjust to the shamelessly titled, “TV position:”
And then the “sleep position:”
As sales rep. Katherine showed me, you just pull the bottom forward and it conforms; you don’t pull pillows off or any of that annoying stuff you have to do with a regular sofabed.
I lay down on the thing, and let me tell you, it was COMFORTABLE. No bars, no ridges, nothing.
The price point is higher than, say, Mitchell Gold, but call them for more info: 305-576-0909 is the Miami showroom. We’re talking the few- to several- thousand dollar range, not the $10k range. Honestly, for a sofa and sofabed this comfortable, I think it’s a good investment.
The next time a client asks for a sofabed, this is what I’m recommending.
