It’s not going to win awards for the comfiest night sleep.The boxes are heavy and you’ll need two people to put the sofa together.You won’t fit the boxes in a standard hatchback car, so delivery or a ute is your friend.You might find the three large boxes the sofa comes in hard to transport.One end features no arm, which means it works well in small spaces (your eye glides over it).If you don’t want the chaise option, it also comes in a standard three-seater.The chaise lifts up so you can store bedding or anything else inside.The chaise can go on either end of the sofa (so it’s versatile if you move house).There’s no creaky metal bits and pieces like in sofa beds of the past.It folds out easily – not in the traditional sofa bed style (you’ll see what I mean in the pictures).It comes in a variety of colours – five to be exact – and the fabric is pretty soft.The sofa bed got delivered the next day and my partner Gavin and I put it up a LOT quicker than some of the other IKEA furniture we’ve purchased in the past. I went into Richmond IKEA when the doors opened at 10am, purchased it, organised delivery and was back home within half and hour. Trust me, I asked and they declined lol).

Clearly nothing did, because I purchased it this weekend just gone (and no, IKEA did not give me the sofa. So it was always a frontrunner unless something better caught my attention. This was when I was living in Sydney a few months back and I was really impressed with how it looked. It felt like nobody had invented a new sofa bed since 1992, and I really didn’t want that typical two-seater that folds out with all the springs and steel.Ī friend of mine actually purchased the Friheten Sofa Bed for his living room. I think you’ve seen the types I’m talking about puffy arms, chunky cushions, thick bases that go all the way to the floor. The biggest issue I faced on the search for the idea sofa bed was coming across a whooole lotta ugly. That’s what a decorating addict does and I won’t apologise for it! I searched high and low for a decent IKEA sofa bed review, couldn’t find it, so decided to turn my own thoughts into one! That’s what occupies my mind most of the time, actually thinking about what decor I can buy, where it can go, and what pieces in my home it’ll work with. Truth: as soon as we got approved for this place I began looking for furniture to fill it with. I’d been on the hunt for a sofa bed the last few weeks. I gave the office component of this space a makeover recently, so the bedding aspect was all that remained to make the room feel complete. Keep scrolling to read my IKEA sofa bed review. With most of our friends and family in Sydney, we’re expecting a few interstate visitors from here on in, so making this zone function and look good was imperative. What a luxury it was to move into my new Melbourne home recently and have a spare room big enough to use as an office and guest bedroom.

Ikea sleeper sofa