My parents are coming to visit in a couple of weeks, for the first time in almost a year that either LOML's or mine have come over: and in the interim the sprogs have grown bigger, and we have moved rooms around, and there is now nowhere for visitors to stay.
And so today we went on a trek: to find temporary sleeping quarters for LOML and me to use while parents use our nice big comfortable bed. Our thought is to put a bed/sofa in the children's room, so we can use it to sit and read most of the time, and as emergency sleeping when needed.
The problem is that our house is a mishmash of post revolutionary style: there are parts of the house that we can easily date back to 1870, and for various historical, stylistic and other reasons, we believe that about a third of the structure dates back to 1820 or so. And the rest of the house was added on in 1914 and 1970.
As a result, there is no rhyme nor reason to our layout; and the room we'd like to put the sofa-bed into has a door which is only 28 inches wide. Apparently this means that our option is precisely a futon: it is the only sort of sofa-bed which we can find around here which will fit through the door.
Complicated up-and-downsides apart, we found a futon set we like, and are going to phone and order it tomorrow, so that we have time to make space for where it will sit before it gets delivered.
So we didn't actually drive the bed, it will get driven to us.
Yours, unsprung,
N.
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Good for you! We're going mattress shopping soon - not looking forward to it.
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geeesh.........the things we do for our parents! lol
We have a futon in our guest room, which I find VERY comfie (two futons on top of one another) However, my parents don't find it that way. SO......we too are looking at new options since they are heading east for Thanksgiving next month.
Good luck with the futon- I have slept on them in the early days at one of the children's. It will be lovely for the grand parents to see how their little darlings have grown. As a grand-parent I know we can be a pain at times but it will probably be the highlight of their year. Hope it all goes well. Michele says hi!
Hope you do find what you are looking for.
And I have tagged you here
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