When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Growing up, my parents had a pull-out sofa bed that my friends and I used during sleepovers. It was ...

Growing up, my parents had a pull-out sofa bed that my friends and I used during sleepovers. It was the kind with a metal bed frame and a super thin foldable mattress that had the thickness of a ...

'To visualise how the sofa bed will sit within your space, I find that it's useful to lay out pieces of paper in the shape of ...

A sofa bed’s conversion mechanism determines what kind of mattress it can contain. Metal pull-out mattresses are typically thinner, between 3.5 and 5 inches, since they have to be folded three ...

The fold out sofa bed: This is a more 'traditional' sofa bed design, which basically involves the 'bed' concertinaing underneath the seat of the sofa. When you pull out the bed, the arms and back ...

This comfortable twin pull-out sleeper sofa is perfect for hosting guests in a small space. Made with foam-filled cushions, it turns into a very firm bed and back into mid-century modern seating ...

With an A-frame sofa bed, the back of your sofa becomes your sleeping space. Pull the whole sofa toward you and push the back out to reveal a flat bed. As you need to pull it right out to reveal the ...

Yes, sleeper sofas are still a thing—but if a creaky contraption with lumpy springs comes to mind, then your idea of one is as dusty as the pull-out mattress in your memory. Admittedly, I was ...

Then, I made sure each sofa bed and sleeper met the following criteria: a) that it was indeed a sleeper sofa with a mattress or a pull-out sofa bed (not a futon), b) that the cushions were soft ...