For those who have frequent overnight guests but do not have the luxury of a guest room, sleeping arrangements can be difficult, especially if more than one person is staying, and you have only a sofa with room for one person to sleep. For those situations, sofa beds are the perfect answer.

Although they are more difficult to find that in days gone by, it’s still possible to find a nice sofa bed, and they are certainly easier to manipulate than the first ones that require the sofa to be opened by clicking on the back of it to open it. Not difficult in most situations, but it required pulling the sofa forward during the time it was open since you were actually taking the back of the sofa and laying it flat. Most modern sofa beds are easier, although it is necessary to move a cocktail table from in front of the sofa to pull it out for sleeping. In addition, the new sofa beds usually have a Queen Size sleep area compared to full size on the older sofas.

Sofa beds can also be a practical answer for temporary sleeping arrangements for someone who is confined to bed such as perhaps a spouse who had surgery and can’t climb stairs or a parent who is visiting and unable to get around well enough to walk up and down stairs. They may even do the job for a single person who has only an efficiency apartment and doesn’t want to reduce an already small space by including a bed in the room.

Whatever the purpose you have for buying a sofa bed, it’s a very versatile and practical piece of furniture that will serve you well. It also tends to have storage space underneath for the bedding so that you don’t have to pull things out of the linen closet when you need to use it. Other than the futon, there is not likely to be another piece of furniture so practical and space saving.