When you are furnishing your first home, moving to a new home, or making additions to your present home, you will want to plan to accommodate occasional overnight guests. When out of town family or friends come to visit, you want their stay to be fun and comfortable. If you have ever had to sleep on a couch, you know that is not usually a comfortable option.
Accommodating a sleepover guest for a child can be as easy as throwing down an air mattress on the floor. Or when buying a bed for your child, you can choose a bunk bed, a trundle bed, or a traditional double or queen size bed if the room can accommodate it. A bunk bed set can usually be arranged as two twin beds as well as one bed over the other. A trundle bed has a second bed under the primary bed that pulls out like a drawer. My sister used to sleep on a couch when visiting her daughter and twin grandchildren. Now they have purchased trundle beds for each child and now she sleeps on a trundle bed. Of course she has to take turns sleeping with each child.
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There are guest bed options for adults to fit a variety of space and price needs. These include sleep sofas, futons, Murphy beds, roll-a-way beds, memory foam stackable, and air mattresses.
A good quality sleep sofa for your living room or family room might be a good option if you do not have a spare room that you can decorate as a guest room. You can buy a traditional sofa that pulls out to make a bed or you can get a futon. Although originally introduced in the US as inexpensive and temporary furniture, the futons of today can be as comfortable and stylish as you can afford. They come in many styles and price ranges and frames are made of wood or metal.
The traditional roll-a-way bed has also been modernized for 21st century demands. A comfortable mattress stows upright on the bed frame and can be rolled into a storage area such as a closet or garage. Air mattresses have also come a long way from the camping mattress many of us remember from childhood. Now called airbeds, they come raised to almost normal bed height and in queen size. You can also get them with pillow tops. Purchase price normally includes a travel bag, patch repair kit, and a pump.