What do your guests sleep on?

lostinrates

MrsE wrote: »

I've slept on a blow up bed in winter & found it freezing too.

I wouldn't let people sleep on my sofa, it's not good for them.

I have a double bed in my spare room, it's not comfortable though, my dd took hers when she moved out & gave me her bfs instead, they swapped it for his.

I'm not sure whether its your sofa or the guests you are concerned for?

Two of ours are antique, have been slept on occasionaally for all dh's memory and are ok:). The very excellent sofa bed which is comfy just as a sofa too is twelve years old at least and going very strong. ( Its main problem is that its incredibly heavy to move). Planning to recover all three of those in the next few years, to fit in with our interiors rather than our parents' from whom The worst thing it suffers is me bending a cushion over to support my back. . It's fair to sayi accept that is somewhat abusive.

neverdespairgirl

We have three bedrooms - DS has one, we have one, and a spare.

In the spare, we have a double bed where half of it folds underneath the other half, when you aren't using it as a bed. So OH can do his yoga in there, and DS set up his lego train set, neither of which can happen if the bed's a double.

I hope that makes sense, it's a tricky thing to explain!

We also have a sofa bed, which is really comfortable - OH and I have slept on it several times, and it's not the sort which even when you were 17 and at mate's house overnight left you feeling as if your ribs had tied themselves in knots overnight.

IN February, we had an American couple staying with us for a month or so, and then my mother staying two nights because of having chemotherapy in London, and living in Kent.

The American couple kept the spare double, and DS came in with us (which he adored, he'd sleep with us every night if he could) and we set up the sofa bed in DS' room for my mother.

Both the Americans and my mother didn't like the idea of either DS' bed, or ours, both of which were offered. They all said that they didn't fancy ladders, if they needed the loo in the middle of the night. DS' bed is a high sleeper, with a wardrobe and chest of drawers underneath, and ours is a double high sleeper, with 4 chests of drawers and shoe racks. Both beds are 6ft above the floor, but no head-banging, as we have very, very high ceilings.

neverdespairgirl

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

The problem for older people is that most temporary guest-beds, if they are not sofa-beds is that they are far too low to get out of comfortably. Or at all.

OH and I used to have a permanent double futon. When we moved, we got a special double high sleeper with 4 chests of drawers under it.

My mother wonders what we have against normal beds (-:

Lunar_Eclipse

We have a sofa bed, air mattresses and a couple of full size foam mattresses from Ikea that we offer to guests.

The foam mattresses are by far the most comfortable. They are supportive without being too hard, like futons. I have been known to sneak one camping when space allowed before and thus highly recommend them. I think they were £60 each.

Having said all this, I would offer adults a bed, either the master bedroom, or a child's bedroom with proper beds (& sleep on mattresses myself.)

Spendless

Son has a trundle bed though we need a mattress for the trundle as it is slightly different in size to standard size single mattresses. We also have a sofa bed in our conservatory and then there's the settee in the living room.

Spendless

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

and a couple of full size foam mattresses from Ikea that we offer to guests.

The foam mattresses are by far the most comfortable. They are supportive without being too hard, like futons. I have been known to sneak one camping when space allowed before and thus highly recommend them. I think they were £60 each.

They sound like something I might be looking for. Do you have a link?

angeltreats

We have this sofa bed from Ikea. The in laws have the same one, with the same choice of mattress, so I've slept on it myself many times and find it very comfortable - rather firm but I prefer that.

We also have an enormous sofa which is wide enough and long enough to sleep quite comfortably, and one of our friends really prefers this to the sofa bed.

Brighton_belle

aliasojo wrote: »

I thought you were young too, dont tell me you're really an old fart. :rotfl:

By 'old fart' do you mean full of wisdom, grace and wit accumulated by attending the 'university of life'?:D

HeadAboveWater

When I stayed at my sisters, the sofa was too short, so we took the actual large cushions you'd sit on from it and an armchair, line them up, and sleep on that. Dead comfy actually!

Lunar_Eclipse

Spendless wrote: »

They sound like something I might be looking for. Do you have a link?

We've had them for years, but I imagine their current most similar product would be this: (Sultan Fonnes foam mattress if the link fails)

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10144418/#/70144420

There is also a cheaper, thinner mattress available (10 cms vs 12cms thick.)