Flip this lump of foam one side and you’ve got a seating area. Flip it out all the way through and you have an extra sleeping or resting area. Best to go inside a child’s bedroom or a teenager’s.

The Rainbow Bed is designed by Joe Earley.

Via Glimpse Online

The Warhol has a lot of uses as a single pieced furniture. Out of one piece, you can get three different kinds of pieces —- a sofa, bed and table. It’s a lounge, a sleeping space, and a work station all in one. The best thing about it is its compact, functional simple contemporary design.

From the design idea of Simone Brewster from Britain.

Sofa bed accommodations aren’t the most comfortable to sleep on. But maybe putting a bar blocker like this from Domestications, may improve the conditions for your house guests. They will surely appreciate you as their host.

• Cut-out handles make it easy to position and remove
• Folds under the sofa cushion(s) when not it use
• Big enough to cover bars on both sides
• Measures 48″x48″ when open; 12″x48″ folded
• Made of lightweight, durable double-wall honeycomb plastic
• Wipe clean
• Imported

The bed blocker is priced at $17-$19.

Some air mattresses available in the market today are fairly compatible with sofa beds. Ask any weekend visitors around and they would all chime that a sofa bed alone tend to be very uncomfortable.

Using an air mattress on a sofa bed is simple — you only have to put it on top of the mattress frame and inflate, which should only take less than three minutes. Cover these air mattresses on sofa beds with standard sheets. And then you’ll have a really homey environment, especially for your weekend visitors or overnight guests.

Your guests can in turn adjust the mattress to their comfort level, as most air mattresses today have knobs and features that allow that.

Photo: Kaboodle Air Mattress

If you own a Peter Guild sofa mattress and you need the mattress replacement for wear and tear, Life and Health Section of The Guardian has this tip:

Peter Guild no longer makes sofa beds, and replacement mattresses are hard to source - the assumption seems to be that people just buy a whole new sofa bed.Martin Cave at Peter Cook International, a supplier of furniture components and accessories, is optimistic that he can help, provided the folding mechanism (ie, the number of times the mattress folds in on itself when you put it away) matches what they have in stock.

Via Peter Cook International