Posh (well £2000) sofabed?

[completetangent]

We need a sofabed for the guest room. Equal first priorities are good comfort for the guests sleeping there (sitting comfort is less important), and contemporary looks.

Been looking at Natuzzi - any other places we should visit?

[furtive]

These are supposed to be good:

http://www.thesofabed.com/sofa-beds

[Chris_]

Or how about this one from Laura Ashely? I know that most of their stuff is not exactly contemporary, but this one looks good, and I can vouch for the sleeping comfort

[RC1]

try this crowd

http://www.sofa.com/

bought a super corner sofa from them and since regret selling it. managed to recover almost half the initial outlay after 4 years which was nice

[completetangent]

Thanks for those. The Laura Ashley is a bit 'twee' but the others seem promising. Turns out the OH has a downer on both basic-sprung and memory-foam mattresses, so it seems I need to concentrate on pocket sprung?

[tonycordon]

furtive said:

These are supposed to be good:

http://www.thesofabed.com/sofa-beds

I have not bought a sofa from them but did consider buying the owner's Porsche 993 Targa a while back. He seemed to be a nice guy and his sofa bed set up looked good. (I didn't buy the car as I decided on a coupe.)

[jke11y]

I buy sofas from a few traditional UK manufacturers and got one Nottingham based company to make ours for home; traditional Howard style. I specified an Italian mechanism manufacturer called Lampolet, they do a king size mech. No word of a lie, every guest that has slept on it has remarked at the comfort - it's proper slat base with sprung mattress bed comfy.

Natuzzi went through issues a few years ago (some disgruntled uk dealer sent out an email of truths).

Edit; I see thesofabed.com mentioned above use Lampolet. Not sure if budget will allow, all in ours was £1800 inc. fabric at trade. The mech alone was £400ish +vat

Edited by jke11y on Sunday 13th January 00:10

[completetangent]

We're off to thesofabed.com workshop ASAP. (FWIW, they are VERY efficient at sending out fabric samples.)

Thanks all.

[Podie]

The most comfortable sofa bed I've slept on was made by Multiyork.

[furtive]

Interesting. I'd always heard that Multiyork was overpriced tat

[Podie]

furtive said:

Interesting. I'd always heard that Multiyork was overpriced tat

Can't commend on it's longevity (it wasn't mine) but it was the only sofabed I've slept on that I found comfortable. The number of sofabeds that seem to have a metal bar right under your coccyx is amazing

Might be worth a nose if there is a store near you.

[completetangent]

Multiyork didn't suit us, because they didn't have a contemporary style with a >140cm wide mattress.

The other thing we've now focused on is mattress length - many we saw on Tott Court Road were 180-190cm. The thesofabed.com ones are (it claims) 2m long. And 14cm thick.

[jke11y]

If they are similar model Lampolet mechs to ours, then yes they are 2m - we use normal king size sheets etc only real difference is the matt thickness.