Furnishing a New-Build Home: How to Choose Your Sofa Bed
New build homes come with their own set of constraints. Rooms tend to be compact and regular, with few alcoves to absorb furniture, radiators and sockets positioned to suit the building rather than the layout, and stud walls that limit what can be fixed in place. Choosing a sofa bed for a property like this works best when you start from the measurements rather than the look. This guide covers the three figures that matter most, room size, delivery route and opened bed footprint, and explains why access through a narrow hall or a lift often rules out more designs than the room itself does. We also look at specifying differently for a main sofa, a guest bed or a daily bed, using a sofa bed as a divider in an open plan space, and warming up the blank neutral canvas a new build hands you. Planning the whole room on paper first avoids the usual expensive mistakes....
