The sofa we will find a place in any apartment and house, whether it's a luxury apartment or a small "Khrushchev". In the common room, they set it up so that it would be convenient to receive guests. Often it also serves as a bed. It can rest as guests, and the family themselves. There are many varieties of such furniture in shape, size, way of transformation.
Types of sleeping sofas for the living room
In form all of them are divided into:
- Direct;
- angular;
- island.
By size and number of seats:
- compact 2-3-seat small sofas with bed;
- Large - for 5 or more people.
By design:
- folding, changing shape due to the process of transformation;
- stationary, unable to expand and somehow change;
- Modular, able to change shape and without unfolding.
Straight sofas in the living room with a bed
A straight form allows you to install it along one of the walls. If this model is not folding, it should have a very long and wide seat, so that you can use it not only to sit, but also for a night's sleep. Direct sofas with a large berth occupy a lot of space, so they can not be called compact. But you do not need to make an effort to unfold - you just lay a bed on him and settle for the night. This kind of furniture is suitable for one person, since it is unlikely to be able to fit two people on it.
Straight sofas for a living room with a sleeping place can be transformable. In this case, there are many ways to unfold. Any of them is designed to turn seats into a comfortable double bed. If you plan to actively use it for sleep, it is preferable to choose the right orthopedic fillers in order not to suffer from back pain.
Compact corner sofa with sleeper
When there is a free angle in the hall, it will be practical to occupy it with corner furniture. Corner sofa sofas, as well as straight, can be folded and not folded. They have a number of advantages:
- Angular models can accommodate more people (seated) on their surfaces and cut off the need for additional seats;
- harmoniously fit in both large and small rooms;
- guarantee you a comfortable sleep;
- thanks to an interesting form fit well into modern interiors;
- with them you can divide and zonirovat room (for example, in the case of kitchen-studio ).
Modular sofas with bed
The most popular modern sofas for a living room with a sleeping place are modular models. They consist of several parts (modules), which can be arranged in any order, creating a single product and separate seats throughout the free territory of the room. Especially such a sofa with a big bed will appeal to a creative person, because the overall look and configuration of it can be changed as you please in accordance with your mood and needs.
Among the advantages of modular upholstered furniture are compactness and mobility. It is easy to transport, move and change the general appearance of the product. And from the shortcomings we can note a higher cost and a smaller assortment on sale. In addition, not all models have a comfortable sleeping space. Yes, and compact they can not be called - often they are bulky, so they are suitable for spacious rooms.
Mini sofas with bed
What kind of furniture is suitable for a modest room in size? Manufacturers have taken care of this - for small apartments there is a choice among small models, which, nevertheless, are laid out and provide a place for comfortable sleep. A short and narrow sofa with a sleeping place can be laid out in a full double bed. In the rest of the time, it will not take up much space.
Such a cozy sofa for a living room with a sleeping place will suit connoisseurs of comfort who are limited by space and can not afford furniture of standard size. The attractiveness of it is also at the same modest cost. Easy folding and the presence of a spring unit in the mattress makes it possible to use this baby every day for complete sleep and rest.
Folding sofas for living room with sleeping place
If you classify the sofas for the living room with a bed by the mechanism of transformation, you can name the most common of them. It:
- book;
- eurobook;
- click-clack;
- accordion;
- dolphin;
- withdrawable;
- sliding;
- clamshell (French, American, Italian)
It is difficult to say which sofa folding sofas are more convenient, easier to operate or more compact. All of them have their own peculiarities, pluses and minuses. Much will depend on the planned intensity of their use. So it is necessary to choose, having got acquainted with them in theory and having tested them in practice. Here are examples of several types of mechanisms that we will cover in a little more detail.
Sofa-eurobook with a berth
It features a very simple folding system that allows you to open it even to children or the elderly without much effort. The reliability of the mechanism guarantees a long service life - longer than other types. All that needs to be done to turn him into a bed is to pull the seat in his side, and then lay his back on the vacated seat.
An additional advantage of such a model is that there is a spacious box for storing laundry or bedding at the bottom of the Eurowalker sofa, while the sleeping place is a flat and wide surface. You can put it both at the wall and in the middle of the room, because the backrest has the same type of upholstery that the whole product. Eurobooks can be not only straight, but also angular. In the second case, one part is transformed, the second one complements it without any manipulation.
Sofa with pull-out bed
Practical and compact model, when the sliding part is under the seat. If necessary, you push it out and, pulling the loop, lift it up one level with the main part. As a result, there is a roomy bed for two, which even in the open state will occupy a minimum of space. Such sofa with sleeping place is installed in any premises - even in the kitchen.
Also there are models used as an alternative to baby beds, which in the open form have two or more tiers. The extended part remains at its level without the possibility to raise it level with the seat. Such furniture is convenient if you need to provide places for sleeping children who are falling asleep next to each other badly because of pampering or habit to spread out to a neighboring place. With this type of construction, everyone will have at his disposal a strictly defined space.
Roll-out sofas with a large berth
If you are interested in the compactness of furniture, but at the same time you appreciate a comfortable night's sleep, pay attention to 2-3-local lazy sofas with a sleeping place for the living room, having a roll-out transformation system. In the open form they consist of 3 parts: one of them is hidden in the back and when folded it rests on the place for the head, the second part reclines after you roll out the seat on yourself, the third one is the rolled out part.
Sometimes, instead of the hinged middle part, additional pillows are used. Such furniture is also called a "telescope", as the process of its transformation resembles the extension of the inner parts of the telescope. When folded, it does not take much space. However, it is necessary to provide space for its transformation into a bed - it will take a lot.