Innovation Living Furniture

Innovation Living has been making sofa beds in Denmark since 1971, and it builds them the opposite way round from almost everyone else. Instead of a thin pad folded inside a steel frame, the mattress is the piece of furniture and the sofa is built around it.

The difference shows up at two in the morning. There is no bar under the shoulders, because there is no pull-out frame. There is no separate mattress to wrestle out of a cavity. Most models fold or slide flat in one movement without removing the cushions or finding a second person, and nothing unfolds from underneath, so they can sit closer to a wall than a traditional sofa bed. It takes a few seconds, which is the whole difference between a guest bed you use and one you apologise for.

Because the frame is simple, the specification is where the character comes from. Wooden legs warm a piece; chrome or black metal sharpen it. The cover decides whether it reads as a sofa, a daybed or something closer to a lounge chair. Those choices are made at order rather than swapped later.

The deeper models work as an everyday sofa without compromise. The narrower daybed formats are honest about being occasional seating that sleeps properly. Choose for sitting depth first, since you will sit on it every evening. The questions below cover comfort, conversion and options.