Nowadays, if you're lucky enough to have a spare room, it’s probably a home office or storage space too. The bed will be competing for space with anything from an ergonomic office chair and printer to those bags and boxes you can’t bring yourself to sort through. The best sofa beds, which fold into a more compact piece of furniture between guest visits, are a no-brainer.
Sofa beds have, historically, been composed of clunky mechanisms, bumpy seat cushions, and paper-thin mattresses, resulting in furniture that leaves much to be desired. But fortunately for savvy space-savers, sofa beds have evolved, combining shrewd engineering, stylish designs, and even high-tech memory foam mattresses.
