Sofa Beds

What's wrong with a rocking chair in baby's room?

Anyway, we have seen several sofa beds recently. We ended up with a daybed/trundle bed type thing, so nothing that looks like a sofa.

Ikea had a few chaise longue type beds with loads of storage in the base. However, they probably weren't as "proper" as you want. I'd be looking at bed manufacturers rather than sofa manufacturers, if you know what I mean?

it wont fit!!! its literally big enough for a cot (and not a cot bed!) and a changing table! I wish i coudl have a rocking chair in it ☹️

Ahh, didnt think about bed manufacturers for sofa beds..guess i thought itd come under sofa more then anything!

If you want a decent sofa bed, be prepared to pay good money for it (sales/second hand excepted) but not as much as for a decent sofa. This is the sort of thing we've been looking at but I think you have to go and try it out.

Given that your family are local I'd be inlined to use the middle room as the baby's room for now - plenty of room (and therefore comfort) for you/husband when changing, feeding, needing some down time. When the baby is old enough for their own room, shift it in to the small room. I'd ant a room where everything for our comfort was in one place.

Could you keep 'your' room as it is but add a rocking chair to it?

not really no, the bed takes up quite a bit of the room!! plus 2 bedside cabinets, a wardrobe and a 4drawer chest fo drawer means not much room for anything else

If it was me, I'd get rid of MY room and turn it into the nursery, then the baby can stay in the one room until they move out.

We thought about it, but its such a big room, it'd be a waste fo space, esp as the smaller room is perfect for a nursery for what we need.

Plus we definatley need to keep it as guest room as we have people stay alot and visit (family mainly but also friends visit). Its no longer be my dressing room, ive moved all my stuff into our room so we free up storage space so thats a start!

Serious suggestion...

Keep the baby in a cot next to your bed and stay in bed to feed it.

That way, you don't have to wake up properly and can feed in a snooze and IT WORKS. Yopu'll hear the baby as soon as it wants feeding, so it doesn't get so distressed and feeds better, you soon get attuned to "normal sleepy snufflings" and you'll be FAR better rested than if you're cantering about the house at night trying to look like supermum.

Please, please trust me on this one.

this is what i intend to do initially anyway, we have a swing cot for our room for the first few months

This is less to do with baby but more to do with the storage as we are making room for baby stuff, we need somewhere to put all the officey stuff we have in the nursery and trying to just shove it all in the current wardrobe is going to be a nightmare, hence the idea of swapping the room around, getting in a sofa bed and being able to have better storage furniture in the big room

Hi Flow,

We've got one in our spare bedroom and its been great.

It's handy for when guests stay over, and its also comfortable to sit on.

They can be quite pricey, but its worth it for a comfortable nights sleep. We got ours from DFS

Here's mine (excuse the other stuff - the room is also used for storage!)

ah brilliant!! did you find it takes up much room when u fold it out or just standard doubel bed size?

Standard double sized bed.

We also use that room as our office (desk is at the opposite end of the room), and there is still plenty of space when its just a sofa.

I love how quick and easy it is to pull out/put away.

I did look at LOADS in Ikea as the there was a big difference in price, but just to be aware that they are considerably cheaper for a reason

Will the rooms always be that way round? If you're planning on swapping in the future, it might be best to get a cheap one in case the sofa bed doesn't fit anywhere if you do swap.

Could you knock the cupboard down to make the room bigger?

no and we wouldnt want to, its a deep cupborard that effectivly is over the stairs (so couldnt knock it out if we did want!!)

^^This.

Believe me, by the time baby is one you are going to need that big room for all it's stuff. There's 3 of us in a 3 bedroomed house and still I've been daydreaming of a 'playroom' since my girl was two

I know how you feel. We are preparing our lounge at the moment and having a clear out and putting in storage so I can try to stop it looking like a creche as much as possible once the baby is here. I said with my first that I wouldn't get them lots of stuff, but it soon adds up! I wish I could have a bigger nursery but I don't think my daughter would appreciate being turfed out of her room she's already had a staircase added to it so my son could move up into the loft room. Ha!

Oh, that's what happened in our nursery but the people that built the house kept it as a platform in the room.

One of the sofas in our lounge is a sofa bed. It matches the other sofa and you wouldn't know it comes out into a bed but we fancied the extra option if we had more than one couple staying and we've used it quite a bit. It was the same price as a normal sofa (from DFS) but it is much more comfortable than any other sofa bed I've slept on. I would say the key is getting a thick-ish mattress on it. As thick as you can. Having said that, all sofa beds seem to get flat the more you use them ☹️

Our sofa in the front room is an Ikea sofabed and it is brilliant. It's called 'Karlstad'. Folds out into a double bed and has storage underneath. I love it.