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Futons?
Ok, so my mom is coming to visit in June. I made the mistake of telling her we might get a futon for our office. Well now she is "hoping" in her words that we buy a good futon for them to sleep on. I mentioned we might be buying a couch with a hide-a-bed and she said "oh honey no matter how much money you spend on those things they are always awful". I honestly have NEVER slept on a comfortable futon! I need some futon suggestions/thoughts?
Re: Futons?
I've never slept on a comfortable futon either... I am no help, sorry!
Maybe Ikea if there is one in your area?
I'm not sure Ikea is the place to go for comfort. It's a style place, not a comfort place.
I wish I were more help to you, but to jump in - I agree. I have never slept on a legitimately comfy futon, and have slept on plenty of really, really nice sofa beds.
My parents had a futon for years in their basement and my brother and SIL were not fans of it. But what seemed to work was putting an air mattress on top of the futton mattress. Classy, not so much....but it took care of the firm futon pad and not ending up on the floor in the morning when the air mattress lost air through the night.
Futons aren't great, but they are way lighter than a hide-a-bed couch. I also think that futon might be easier to sell down the road to some broke college kid looking for furniture for his party pad.
I second Ikea, I love that place! My husband's aunt did her whole beach house in Ikea stuff and we slept on her hide-a-bed couch. It wasn't great, but it was a lot better than other couches I've slept on. I'm not sure about futons from there, but they do have some durable stuff...it's not just style!
I should probably save this for tomorrow but I confess that the Mr. and I spend the first 6 years of our relationship on a futon. We'd go look at mattresses and debate and decide to buy and then just not. By the time we threw it out it was tied up with string and held up with milk crates. So hot!
We just threw out a hide a bed and I was a little bit sad about it. It was awful in therory but like someone else said with one of those foam mattress it was pretty comfortable for a night or two. When we were painting our bedroom we slept on it for a few nights and it wasn't bad.
These look more comfy but I haven't tried them so I can't really say
http://www.futoncreations.com/futon-set-packages.html
They have a foam core.
You could also get any futon frame and put a different mattress on it. Some mattress companies make ones just for futons, they're thinner so they bend but they have springs or foam.