Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 13:49     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Order a foam mattress from costco.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 09:24     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:THIS THREAD IS FOUR YEARS OLD

But obviously of interest as evidenced by new questions from new posters with similar problems
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 02:32     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:Not OP, but resurrecting this thread to ask if there are any recommendations on a comfortable sofabed/day bed or something else for a guest room used as an office 95% of the time.


Start new threads you idiot.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 02:31     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
THIS THREAD IS FOUR YEARS OLD
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2025 23:25     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Suggest a Murphy bed instead
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 18:14     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Just get your daughter a new bed
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 18:05     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Go to ikea and try out their sleeper sofas/futons. Some are great for bad backs.
Or get the Hennessy day bed unless your guests are tall.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:05     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:What about a daybed with a pop-up trundle for the guest room? That way it takes up less space during non guest times but is still a real mattress and decently comfortable for your mom

This is what we did and it's working well. There's a point in life where you can't sleep on a sofa bed without paying for it the next day and our regular guests all have reached that point.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 00:12     Subject: Re:Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Get a wall/Murphy bed for the guestroom. You can use pretty much any mattress you want on them. They are not cheap, and ours was a full day job to put together for my very handy husband (and heavy to lift for me and him). I'd get one from a place that installs them too, if you're not handy and fit. We love having the floor space back when guests are not in town (aka 95% of the year).


Yes, this is a great solution. Our friend did it at his house and loves the extra space.

We have a day bed with a pop-up trundle which is good unless you are like me and use the bed for storage


Two things we do:
1) Guest room: we did the firm Ikea mattress, with a foam topper from Amazon, and an inexpensive headboard from Wayfair. The room looks great. When I am sick, I love sleeping in the guest room so I don't get anyone else sick, but I really love the bed and the room.

2) In a second room that doubles for an office, I did the Ikea firm twin mattress with Amazon topper as well for a daybed. I got the pop up trundle, and did the same mattress and topper situation there.

We liked the Ikea firm with the topper so much that when we needed to replace our king mattress in main bedroom, I did the same thing with another Amazon topper. Good, relatively inexpensive solution.


can you link to the amazon toppers you bought? thanks! we, too, have a daybed with trundle, and the mattress on the trundle (8”) just fits under the daybed, I didn’t think we could add a topper and get it to push back under the daybed.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 21:46     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:Give your kid the guest room bed. Make the guest room more "functional" as you'd like. When your mom comes to visit, kick teen out of her room for a few days and put her on an air mattress or sofabed in the guest room.


Yep.

This is what we do
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 13:03     Subject: Re:Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Some of the air mattresses these days are very comfortable- I have slept on them for a few months at a time while transitioning on major relocations and waiting to invest in full bed setups.

They come in tall versions too so no worries with grandma getting up and down from the air mattress, or you ask the kid to sleep on it when grandma visits.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 12:57     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
If you’re planning to stay in your house long-term, what about a Murphy bed? Then the room can be other things and be converted when you have guests, who can then enjoy a real mattress.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 12:53     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We have a guest room that is rarely used by guests. My mother comes once or twice a year and has a bad back. We have a comfortable queen sized bed in there for her.

Our teenager's bed has reached it's last legs. It's an old bed and the mattress is sagging.

I don't want to spend $1K or more on a new bed for teenager's room, but she needs something comfortable because every night she's been sleeping in the guest room. She loves that bed.

Question is - I'm thinking of moving the guest room bed into the teen's room and making the guest room more functional (for Zoom calls, meditation, TV, etc.). I'm afraid if I get a sleep sofa though, my mother won't be able to sleep on it. Is there such a thing as a very comfortable sleep sofa or should I scrap the plan and just get my daughter a new bed?


OMG

Just buy your kid a new bed. What's wrong with you?


LOL!!!! Kid loves the guest room bed and is sleeping on that every night. She's Autistic. When she finds something she likes, she likes it. We thought this is a good opportunity to make the guest room more functional. What is wrong with ME?????

Let her sleep in kid’s room on her occasional visits.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 12:52     Subject: Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:Give your kid the guest room bed. Make the guest room more "functional" as you'd like. When your mom comes to visit, kick teen out of her room for a few days and put her on an air mattress or sofabed in the guest room.



This is the way
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2025 12:50     Subject: Re:Overwhelmed with bed/guest room situation - please give me suggestions!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Get a wall/Murphy bed for the guestroom. You can use pretty much any mattress you want on them. They are not cheap, and ours was a full day job to put together for my very handy husband (and heavy to lift for me and him). I'd get one from a place that installs them too, if you're not handy and fit. We love having the floor space back when guests are not in town (aka 95% of the year).


Yes, this is a great solution. Our friend did it at his house and loves the extra space.

We have a day bed with a pop-up trundle which is good unless you are like me and use the bed for storage


Two things we do:
1) Guest room: we did the firm Ikea mattress, with a foam topper from Amazon, and an inexpensive headboard from Wayfair. The room looks great. When I am sick, I love sleeping in the guest room so I don't get anyone else sick, but I really love the bed and the room.

2) In a second room that doubles for an office, I did the Ikea firm twin mattress with Amazon topper as well for a daybed. I got the pop up trundle, and did the same mattress and topper situation there.

We liked the Ikea firm with the topper so much that when we needed to replace our king mattress in main bedroom, I did the same thing with another Amazon topper. Good, relatively inexpensive solution.