Sofa bed?

textbook

Will need to use it 1 or 2 times a week. Worth spending £1000 on a good one from DFS? Or a cheap?


The good one had a memory foam mattress. Some others I found had pocket sprung mattresses which was nice as you could put a memory foam topper on top of them to make even more comfortable.


Any suggestions?

jackyann

Always a compromise, and if you are sleeping in it a few times a week, then concentrate on the mattress.
Personally, I find the relatively cheap blocks of foam, with a mattress topper on top, better than expensive sofa beds that can never have a good mattress, but is very personal.

theonlywayisup

http://www.johnlewis.com/house-by-john-lewis-kix-double-sofa-bed/p2055835?colour=Florence%20Steel gets good reviews on John Lewis for £245, add a nice topper and you've got a bargain.

Ikea do a range where you can choose from 3 types of mattress, add a coloured cover......we have the double with the best mattress and the storage box. Have had it a few years and are very pleased.

Mattress choices -

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S99849193/
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S09849201/
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S59849185/

If you use the name to check out the spec on the mattress page you can see a little more info.

I personally wouldn't touch DFS with a bargepole.

Davesnave

textbook wrote: »

Worth spending £1000 on a good one from DFS?

Doesn't compute.

Cisco001

How often would you sleep on it?

casper_g

Cisco001 wrote: »

How often would you sleep on it?

The OP says they'd use it once or twice a week, and I assume they mean to sleep on.

I'd say it would be well worth spending money on a decent sofa bed if it will be used this often. It's not just the quality of the mattress that matters - in my experience cheap sofa beds are not only uncomfortable but have poor quality mechanisms that will break with regular use, certainly within a year or two.

If you are considering spending up to £1000 or so I would look at John Lewis or Willow and Hall rather than DFS. Willow and Hall has a showroom in Chiswick now but we bought sight unseen from their website and haven't regretted it for a moment.

moneysavingmicromels

We bought a John Lewis pocket sprung mattress sofa bed. It's very comfy to sit on and sleep on. It did cost about £700 though. Our cheaper M&S foam mattress one is about dead after 8 years although John Lewis one is still going strong.

J_B

textbook wrote: »

Will need to use it 1 or 2 times a week. Worth spending £1000 on a good one from DFS?

Maybe wait till they have a 'sale'!!

Davesnave wrote: »

Doesn't compute.

:rotfl:

textbook

The sofa bed I looked at in DFS was this one-


http://www.dfs.co.uk/fling/3-seater-sofa-bed-tiana-101080132p--1#FAeipESiWkRgXi6W.97


And in SCS one (£1000 for double bed size)-


http://www.scs.co.uk/vigo-2-seater-sofa-bed-standard-back/L025051_5352-SKY-BLUE-AZTEC-PLN-CHENILLE_DARKWOOD.html?cgid=sofas-sofa-bed




The one from John Lewis was £1600.


Is it really worth paying £1600 for a John Lewis one?


The SCS was pocket sprung so could throw a memory foam topper on, but the DFS one was memory foam, so I guess you couldn't put any extra topper on!

Cisco001

Could you not got to their store and check it?

textbook

Is it worth paying the extra £600 for the John Lewis one. Actually the King size one from DFS is £1200 anyhow so it's an extra £400. The SCS is £1000 for double. Are SCS and DFS that bad?

Also, is it not a good idea to throw a memory foam topper on a memory foam already mattress?