Which couch would you get rid off? PIPs

[sju]

One of these will stay in the office. We bought them while furnishing our old house and we have no place for both. We like transitional and plan to redo the office with the Ikea bookshelves to make them look like built-ins; like Centsational Girl did. I would love for my house to look like hers but less formal. Does that make sense?

#1- Basset sofa. Please ignore the pillows and wall :-) We have the matching chair in our bedroom creating a separate seating area. The office is also the guestroom so we would get an air mattress.



#2- LA-Z-BOY love seat with pull out bed. The bed is not very comfortable but we put cardboard under the mattress to make it more firm and it is fine.

[sassafrass]

I like the look of the first couch better but I see real value in a pull out, comfortable or not, so I think that I'd lean towards the La-Z-Boy.

[MrsAxilla]

Personally, I'd keep the pull-out. They always come in handy.

[brooklyn]

I'd keep the pull out, and maybe upgrade the mattress in it. I hate air mattresses though.

[kaylie]

I'd get rid of the pull out, the other one is more visually appealing to me and I'd only make someone I didn't like sleep on a pull out.

[lolc]

It depends on how often you have guests? Do you have guests often? If you have guests over often, then I'd keep the pull out. But if don't usually have overnight guests, then I would keep the first one. The first one is definitely more visually appealing but I also see the value in keeping the pull out couch.

[UMaineTeach]

keep the 1st one

[sjh722]

May 16, 2012 20:03:14 GMT -5 kaylie said:

I'd get rid of the pull out, the other one is more visually appealing to me and I'd only make someone I didn't like sleep on a pull out.

I wouldn't even make someone I disliked sleep on a pull out.

[KaraOrNot]

I like #1 better.

[housegeek]

Air mattresses are only right above a bed of nails on the comfort scale, so if you have guests with any sort of regularity I vote the laz e boy.

[sierramist03]

I'd keep the first one. Pulls outs are soo heavy.

[amblor]

The first one is definitely more visually appealing.

Air mattresses do kind-a suck, but if the pull out is so uncomfortable you have to put card board underneath, is it really that much better than an air mattress?

How often do you have guests and for how long? If it's just the occasional someone crashing, they may opt to just sleep on the sofa and forgo a pullout/air mattress all together.

[roeshel]

I would keep #1 and get an air mattress for occasional guests. If you have guests more often, I'd probably go with a full sized bed for the room.

[mrsfurmom]

May 16, 2012 20:03:14 GMT -5 kaylie said:

I'd get rid of the pull out, the other one is more visually appealing to me and I'd only make someone I didn't like sleep on a pull out.

I agree. Plus if that Bassett sofa is as comfortable as mine, a single guest would be quite comfortable right on the sofa! I know mine is my favorite place in the house for a nap!

[sratsey]

I'd keep #1

[floridakat]

I much prefer #1 as far as the couches go. And I think a good air mattress is preferable to a bad pull-out.

[sju]

Thanks for all the replies. We have overnight guests about every 4 months. It is usually MIL and she stays for a couple of nights. When my parents visit (separate because the are divorced now) they stay for about a week. They come once a year max. DS has a full bed and we will get DD a bigger bed too. I think we can make it work.