At the very least, these anecdotal claims could confirm the mattress would fit, fold up, and maybe feel okay to sleep on. Having spent several years as a home editor here myself, I knew this meant I was bushwhacking into new territory, and that the only way to really get an informed opinion (short of ordering a half-dozen mattresses and trying them out myself) would be to look at user reviews. Manufacturers represented among the picks in Wirecutter’s guide to mattresses didn’t offer a lot of options in the sleeper-sofa category. And we weren’t trying to go all-out, but we did want to get something supportive and decent, as we planned to use this sofa bed for visits from older relatives. We actually thought this would be the only thing we needed to change. The upgrade, for us, started with the mattress. It wasn’t until the nearly new, unaffordable sleeper of dreams showed up, with all the same problems, that I realized there must be something people can do about this.
These sleeper sofas had either been beaten to hell in the back of a U-Haul or parked so permanently on the carpet that no one in living memory could tell you when they arrived. This has been the case with every other sofa bed I’ve known in my life-the one my cousin slept on for years at my grandmother’s house, the one my roommates and I hauled from apartment to apartment in college, the ones I’ve crashed on in various basements, grateful it was too dark to see details. The decrepitude of the mattress came as no surprise. The mattress sagged so much in the center-and tacoed up on the sides-that it almost enveloped the person lying in the middle. But when we maneuvered the thing into position and got the bed out for a test rest, it was as bad as every sofa bed I’ve ever used. Finally, I thought, a luxury sleeper sofa, here to allay a lifetime of complaints about flimsy mattresses and crossbars jabbing into backs. My wife and I recently bought a barely used, secondhand West Elm Rochester Queen Sleeper Sofa for an amount that still stung even though it was about 90% off the retail price.
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