Re: sofa beds in guest rooms? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kay Argyle (Kay.Argyle![]() |
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:53:27 -0800 (PST) |
The downstairs guest room at Wasatch Commons does double duty as a small meeting room. Based on our experience, even though a Murphy bed costs maybe twice what a sofa bed does (or as much as a high-quality one), it's worth it. The sofa bed we used to have there wasn't that great as a sofa, and worse as a bed. My brother would request a sleeping bag on the floor in preference (mind you, this is not some agile twenty-something, but a portly gentleman who has strangers stop him on the street to ask if he ever does gigs as Santa Claus). My elderly mother insisted on making the long drive home rather than try to sleep on the sofa bed. That meant she had to leave while there were still a couple hours of daylight so she wouldn't be driving after dark, which tended to cut her visits short. :( For a guest making a week's stay, we spent hours moving furniture to get a borrowed bed into the guest room. Admittedly, the sofa bed was a hand-me-down like all our common house furniture; maybe a new one would be better. Others in the community found it perfectly adequate. On the other hand, perhaps they never had guests with bad backs -- but because all we had to offer was the sofa bed, my household rarely did either. We found a used Murphy bed. Installation by a professional cabinetmaker added a couple of hundred to the cost. It can be gotten down or put away by a single not-very-strong person. When closed it simply looks like an oak cabinet, maybe 18" deep. Kay Wasatch Commons Salt Lake City __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5939 (20110309) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
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