Guest/daybed?

[bunnymendelbaum]

We are starting our junk room to guest room/playroom and junk closet to lower bath construction project.

I'm thinking ahead to furnishings. Originally, we had thought of doing a Murphy bed. Now I'm wondering about a daybed that converts to a queen, like this ikea one. That way, there would be a comfy place in the playroom to read, watch movies w friends (when kids are older), etc.
I'm just worried that it will not be comfortable for my parents and ILs who stay 4-5 nights at a time.
Anyone have one of these daybed? Or recommend one?

[bunnymendelbaum]

And here it is open. You lay length-wise on it instead of like on a pull-out sofa.
I've read that it just depends on the mattress you get for it, but ppl recommend get a nice one and stacking them when it is closed. That is with the Hemnes version which is a similar daybed w 3 tall sides to hold the mattresses in place, but that is odd because the inner sleeping person is boxed in!
I'll pip that too.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Hemnes w 3 sides.
I'm on the mobile version, do I don't know how to do multiple pip.

[tarheels]

I haven't seen that before, so I can't speak to it, but I will say perma-folding a mattress in half doesn't seem like it'd make for a good night's sleep. My grandparents put in a Murphy bed about 5 years ago and I sleep like a rock on it. The mattress is somewhere between sofa bed and normal. They have regular furniture in the room for how they usually use the room the rest of the year.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Good info on the Murphy bed. I've never slept on one.

What I've seen for these daybeds is you have 2 normal twin mattresses stacked when it is a daybed, then side-by-side in bed configuration. So you sleep on a twin, not on the crack.
The cheaper version without the side walls does look like a folded foam mattresses, which, even though you sleep parallel to the fold, seems too thin to be comfortable.

[pamela]

We have the hemnes (opens to a king). It's tolerable with their mattresses, but only a bit better than a crib mattress. We add a feather bed for guests. Stacking 2 traditional coil mattresses is too tall and uncomfortable because it's too springy.

[sierramist03]

We had a daybed for our guest room for a while due to space issues. it was nice to be able to sit on it and watch tv when we didn't have company. We never had any complaints and our moms like sleeping on a mattress rather than the floor.

[heygrey]

i think i'd look more towards a traditional trundle bed that can store a twin mattress so that it's a king when popped out. those thin mattresses look miserable.

that said: didn't jenna sue put two of the first styles mentioned in her sun room?

[TBM]

Jun 30, 2012 16:05:55 GMT -5 pamela said:

We add a feather bed for guests.

I highly recommend adding a featherbed or even a non feather alternative. It makes everything so much more comfortable....even the horrible futon we have in one of our guest rooms.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Thanks! We are driving by Ikea soon, so maybe I'll go check it out in person.
I also need to do a google search for other daybeds w pop-up trundles, but I have a feeling they are going to be $$$.
I'd like to do a Murphy bed, but that would be added a whole custom cabinetry wall to this project. Ugh.

[lmdbww]

I loved the second one you posted. When I was thinking about our guest room before we moved, I planned on getting that one (because we were putting our desk in the guest room as well) but we now have room for a regular bed (probably a full size).

We had a futon in our guest room in the old house and nobody that slept on it ever complained too much about it. (but of course no other bed is ever as comfortable as your own).

[orangeblossom]

There are a lot more options out there for Murphy Beds these days that don't involve custom cabinetry.

Article about murphy beds:
washingtonexaminer.com/article/126793


Murphy Bed Resources (list comes from the above article)

hardwoodartisans.com
morespaceplace.com
tailoredliving.com
murphybedcompany.com/home.php

What about those chair and half or small love seat sofas that open into a full-size bed. Though not as comfortable as a queen, that could be an option.

Also, I just saw quite a few non-built in murphy beds on pinterest/

[downtoearth]

My parents did something similar (different beds, but two twins put together for guests). They had one of these: www.amazon.com/Create-King-Bed-combine-Secure-Comfortable/dp/B004223XT2
Plus a mattress topper like this: www.amazon.com/Natural-Comfort-Anchor-Mattress-Full-54/dp/B001D3SWDK/ref=sr_1_7?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1341249361&sr=1-7&keywords=matress+topper+king

I stayed there for a week or more at a time and you couldn't tell at all.

[mrs.jacinthe]

We have your first posted daybed. It opens to a king, not a queen. Two twin mattresses. We sleep on it in the direction of the mattresses, because that's the direction the support slats go and I think you're supposed to lay across the slats and not between them. (Although I could be wrong).

We love it. The mechanism is smooth. We upgraded the mattresses from the ones they have on the in-store demo, but you really should stick with foam, latex, or memory foam mattresses instead of spring, like we got. Reason: when you pile up the mattresses on top of each other (when the daybed is closed), two spring mattresses are a) tall and b) unstable. Foam would have been a better choice.

[mrsbird1129]

Can someone post links to these beds? Are they just ikea daybeds? I've never seen them, but I think they may be perfect for what we need in our guest bedroom! Thanks!

[bunnymendelbaum]

Thank you everyone!
-That is exactly what I was worried about with the brimnes daybed.
-For the Hemnes daybed owners, is it weird to have the inner sleeping person boxed in on 3 sides?
-We got into really planning this and realized that because we will likely sell this house in the next 2 years, we need to build a closet into this room so it is considered a real bedroom. So we will probably just build a closet/built in wardrobe and stash the mattress when don't have guests.

Links to daybeds:
www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30080316/
www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60207470/

[mrs.jacinthe]

Bunny, what were you worried about with Brimnes? I think we're talking about the same thing ...

The Brimnes and the Hemnes open in the same way and you sleep on them the same direction. With either one, the mattress thing will be a minor concern because of the slats - Hemnes has slats too.