Rest is an essential part of everyone’s life.  Without rest we become less healthy and productive.  If we sleep on the average of eight hours a day, we spend this time on our bed and rarely on something else.  For those who hardly have time to go home, needless to say even to their beds, the ingenuity of man “brought” their beds practically anywhere and anytime they need it.  These beds are called the sofa bed futon.  The beds are made of pliable materials stuffed with cotton and are foldable after use.  Beds of this type originated from Japan and are flat mattresses made up of various fillings such as cotton, wool or synthetic materials.

The sofa bed futon was developed out of the Japanese concept of “folding and storable bed”.  Sofa beds are space savers for small homes and apartments.  Best uses of these types of beds are for bachelors’ pads or single bedroom units.  Even some top executive private offices would have sofa bed futon as one of the furniture.  We’re talking here about small and cramped spaces but the truth is, even larger homes would have this kind of furniture.  It has many advantages aside from just being an ordinary bed.  Many residents of a home sometimes get to sleep in their living room while watching television, that’s one.  Another would be, if there is no other room or bed available for overnight guests in a house, the sofa bed futon is the alternative.

The world is not getting any larger.  Population is growing and “space is shrinking”.  As building construction expands vertically to save space, beds have become also multi-purpose to save on space.  The advances in technology have also provided synthetic materials that have “memory”.  This means that the sofa bed futon could have the “memory filling and construction” to extend itself as a bed, even after it has been store-folded for quite some time.