| Having a guest bed on hand makes it easier to | | | | years ago, but we think the MemoRest is superior to |
| accommodate family, friends, or guests when they | | | | the original! This model is also now available in three |
| come to visit or stay over; and provides a little extra | | | | different sizes (instead of just one), and comes at a |
| flexibility for the unexpected. There is quite an array of | | | | significantly lower price than its predecessor. |
| guest beds available on the market -- from trundle | | | | Other great beds are the sturdily constructed |
| beds and sleeper sofas to futons, futon chairs, and | | | | wooden-slatted rollaway guest beds, of which several |
| ottoman styles; from slatted rollaway beds on wheels | | | | models are available. The differences between them |
| to spring-supported roll aways; from plain foam mats | | | | appear to be in the sturdiness of the frames, the |
| to upholstered folding memory foam folding beds; and, | | | | length and width of the beds, and the type and |
| of course, those inexpensive airbeds you can get just | | | | thickness of mattresses. Nevertheless, any of them |
| about anywhere. | | | | should be more comfortable than a spring-supported |
| And, indeed, there is probably a time and place for | | | | rollaway - that is, unless you like that type of support |
| every style, though some seem much less impressive | | | | system or will use it so seldom that you just want |
| than others, such as the trundle bed, the | | | | something inexpensive and easily available. |
| spring-supported roll away beds, and cheap airbeds. | | | | About furniture guest beds - well, it is usually a love or |
| Am I the only one who finds saggy mattress support | | | | hate story -- you may have no issue with them or you |
| to be miserably uncomfortable? Either I am, or a lot of | | | | may avoid them like the plague -- that is, unless you're |
| other people are satisfied with whatever their local | | | | low on storage space or could use the extra furniture, |
| retail merchants are offering, without considering | | | | while wanting a bed option at the same time. |
| whether the product is really comfortable. | | | | Fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, all of |
| Nevertheless all the styles are out there, offering | | | | these collapsible folding furniture beds use a |
| varying degrees of comfort - those that lay flat on the | | | | spring-supported sleeping surface. On the other hand, |
| floor, and those that elevate the bed above the floor. | | | | the narrower models found in the form of ottoman |
| Some models fold and store flat (folding beds), while | | | | sleepers or futon chair beds are small enough that |
| others fold and roll into a closet or empty space | | | | hammocking should be minimized. |
| (rollaway beds); some deflate and fold up for storage | | | | But, if you are open to the idea of a futon on a folding |
| (airbeds), while yet others fold together into a piece of | | | | wooden frame - one which can take the shape of a |
| furniture (sleeper sofas, futons and futon chairs, | | | | couch or chair and fold out into a bed - then you have |
| ottoman styles) that can provide a different sort of | | | | the best of both worlds, assuming that you're a "futon |
| functional comfort in your home when not used for | | | | person" to start with. Keep in mind that lumpy futons |
| guests. | | | | are mostly a thing of the past, as modernization has |
| If you're really into comfortable memory foam, and | | | | also come to the futon world in the form of all kinds of |
| don't mind your guest sleeping on the floor, the | | | | foam cores that make them more lightweight, |
| MemoRest Folding Guest Bed is a real winner -- | | | | lump-free, and inherently springy. If, however, you |
| manufactured with 3" of support foam and 1" of | | | | prefer all-natural materials, cotton and wool varieties |
| memory foam for optimal comfort. It was originally | | | | are still available -- including those manufactured from |
| designed to replace the Isotonic Folding Guest Bed | | | | organic materials. |
| which was discontinued by E.R. Carpenter a couple of | | | | |