Leather Sofa Bed

I am very excited to report that the architect has visited to discuss the loft. Now I know I have form with architects but this one comes highly recommended and also when it comes to lofts you really need one as you have to have proper drawings and not just sketches on graph paper which is what I used for the rest of this house.

So naturally having had a short conversation about the space, the requirements, the technical issues, the council and the building regs blah blah, my thoughts turned immediately to shopping.

Furnishing this enormous studio atelier that exists only in my head is taking up a fairly significant part of my saving space, as my youngest likes to call his brain. I am resolutely ignoring the fact that it will ultimately be a narrowish rectangle under the eaves. You know how I love a day bed and we will need a sofa bed up there too. At the moment, these two requirements are not behaving themselves and being the same thing. I want the one in the image above, which only translates into a large single/not quite a small double bed. Cue much gnashing of teeth. Although for the rare occasions anyone will actually need to sleep up there, I am wondering about the possibility of buying two that could be pushed together but I’m not sure the final room will be big enough for that.

I am also pondering, as it’s only for the odd night, and probably only for me and ‘im outdoors, if it would work on an occasional basis even if it was a bit small. I could promise to take a sleeping pill and lie entirely still WITHOUT MOVING A MUSCLE the whole night long. That’s a plan isn’t it? Sometimes I really see where the Ugly Sisters were coming from. They just wanted that shoe to fit more than ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL. I feel a bit like that about this day bed…

These are questions for slightly further down the line, but in the meantime, this is a piece of furniture that I love and adore and WANT. I saw it at the Heals SS15 launch just before Christmas. Their version is called the 40 Winks and costs £1,495.

The top image, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing, was designed by Per Weiss for Innovation Living and there is also a similar chair as you can see. I have considered if there’s a way to put the two together to make a bigger bed but all you would get is a longer one. Unless… you use the matching chair and create something like the second picture so you could sleep at right angles to each other and wave. I’m not ruling that out. It might be fun. Then you get a really good seating arrangement too. So it’s probably a really practical solution when you come to think about it.

In the meantime, I am sharing this with you in a totally selfless way so that if anyone of you needs a sofa bed for a large single person or a very small couple then you know what you can have. Furniture designing readers, should you have a spare moment, then please create me one that’s about 20cm wider when folded out. I would settle for 15. I could diet.