Corner Settee

In an understandable turn of fate the futon has become incredibly popular, perhaps more popular than the ubiquitous corner settee. Why not? After all, they are cheap and you can use them to sleep on, or to sit on. There is a dark side to futons however. Actually, no. Just having laugh. Though not a dark side per say, futons are inferior to the traditional sleeper sofa in a number of crucial ways.

The first thing to consider is comfort. If you are having a relative or even a friend stay over, it’s not proper to have them stay on a futon. They’re narrow and not terribly comfortable. Most of them don’t even have a proper mattress, just a stuffed bit of cotton. A sleeper sofa on the other hand offers a much larger bedding area, usually with some springs underneath to make sleeping on it better than simply bearable. Offer your guests something they can stretch out on.

If you have a couple stay over, your parents for instance, then it would be incredibly rude for you to force them into separate beds. Especially tiny separate futon beds. No, what you want is a big corner settee with a section that pulls out into a double bed. You might be thinking that you have a guest bedroom so you don’t really need a sleeper sofa. Bollocks. Turn that guest bedroom into a home office, a martial arts dojo, or a video game dungeon for yourself and stuff your parents on the couch.  Yes indeed – that is why you bought that corner sofa after all.

Now, let’s say you’re young and the only likely house guests you’re likely to have spending the night are a bunch of drunk mates. Well, again sleeper sofas win. You can only realistically fit one mate per futon but you can cram about three or four drunk ones onto a double bed. You’re saving space and money all at once since you’re going to have at least one sofa anyway and now you don’t need to buy six futons for Barry, Larry, George, Benny, Bart and Bret. Four on the double bed, one on the floor, one in the tub and there you go.

If you’re not yet convinced about the superiority of sleeper sofas over their tiny futon cousins then consider this: Your sofa is in front of the telly. Your telly is hooked up to your console gaming system of choice. Having a sleeper sofa means you can play Xbox in bed. Call of duty just seems that much more realistic from the prone position, and sitting while repeatedly pressing a button can get tiresome. So what are you waiting for? Get that corner settee you’ve always wanted with the pullout bed.