Spare Room Sofa Beds

Yes, when the sofa is designed as a sofa first. Koala builds these to sofa proportions and sofa comfort, so a spare room, home office or studio gets a lounge that earns its space on the hundreds of nights a year nobody is staying over.

Assembly is slide-and-click and tool free, which makes the sofa easy to move when the room changes job. Covers on the Koala Sofa Bed [4th Gen] are removable and machine washable at 30°C, and the fabrics are water resistant. The Wanda Sofa Bed [2nd Gen] adds a chaise storage compartment measuring 153.5cm by 78.5cm, deep enough for spare bedding, pillows and everything you want out of sight before guests arrive.

A good one is, yes. Select models in Koala's range use the same open-cell foam technology as our award-winning mattresses, built into the seat itself, so the sleep surface holds up night after night like a proper mattress. Don't just take our word for it, read what actual guests and hosts think.

Most Koala sofa beds go together with tool-free, slide-and-click assembly, and simpler models can be done solo in a matter of minutes. Larger pieces with more components are easier with two people, so it's worth having a second pair of hands free before your delivery arrives.

Vacuum it weekly on a low suction setting to keep the fabric looking fresh, and wipe up spills quickly with a clean cloth since covers are treated to be water-resistant. Removable covers can be cold machine washed at a maximum of 30°C, then reshaped while damp and line dried in the shade, avoid the tumble dryer and the iron.

A sofa bed usually has a proper frame and cushioning built for both sitting and sleeping, with the mattress hidden inside until you need it. A futon is typically a single mattress on a foldable frame, so the same surface does both jobs without switching between them. If you want a sofa that looks and feels like a sofa when it's not in bed mode, a sofa bed is the better fit.

Measure the room for both the sofa bed's footprint as a couch and how far it extends once it's pulled out into bed mode. Koala's range runs from 117cm wide up to 207cm wide, opening out to roughly 222.5cm to 225.5cm deep depending on size, so there's a fit for a tight box room and a fit for a larger guest space. Our sofa bed sizing guide walks through measuring your room if you want a second opini