Futons

I have three futons in my house and no normal mattresses. I love them. I have one futon on a normal bed base, one on a nice sofa bed base, and one on a cheap sofa bed base. The cost of the bases varied from about 50 pounds to 200 pounds, but that has no relevance to the comfort of the bed once you are lying on it. The only differences in them are; 1) How nice does it look 2) How easy it is to get on to (my mother in law can not lie down on the low sofa bed ones, so can not stay with us). 3) How well constructed are they - i.e. how often can you put the sofa bed up and down before it breaks. Obviously, in general you get what you pay ...

Fabulous futons. A sofa bed. We have a Futon in The spare bedroom, used to be my daughters room (still is really) She is grown and married now has own house. It is a double Futon about 9 years old. We bought it new from a local bed shop for about 80 pounds. We bought it because we decided Sleepydormouse had outgrown her cabin bed .We bought a double as we sometimes have guests to stay and thought a double would be more useful. Also we thought it would not be many years before sleepydormouse found a bedmate. We also thought if she needed the space in her bedroom she could always fold it up. The futon we bought is a pine base one, it ...

When I moved into my most recent student house the beds left something to be desired. The mattresses were all encased in plastic, and it wasn’t the type of cover you could remove. I admit this saved the landlord money in the long run as he didn’t have to buy new beds every year. It was bed mite free and very clean (probably hosed down!), but I like most people my age don’t wet the bed, so the precaution wasn’t entirely necessary. The main problem was that this bed made noises, some dodgier than others. Also bed sheets and undercovers slipped off really easily in the middle of the night so I stuck to the bed, not especially pleasant. ...