{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Interior Design Ideas For Your Home","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog","title":"How Often Are Sofa Beds Actually Used? Survey of 1,000 UK Owners - FIF Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"A5aerixXXV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/how-often-are-sofa-beds-actually-used\/\">How Often Are Sofa Beds Actually Used? Survey of 1,000 UK Owners<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/how-often-are-sofa-beds-actually-used\/embed\/#?secret=A5aerixXXV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;How Often Are Sofa Beds Actually Used? Survey of 1,000 UK Owners&#8221; &#8212; Interior Design Ideas For Your Home\" data-secret=\"A5aerixXXV\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dumy-1024x486-1.jpg","thumbnail_width":1024,"thumbnail_height":486,"description":"How Often Are Sofa Beds Actually Used? Survey of 1,000 UK Owners - Furniture in Fashion's 2026 analysis concludes that a sofa bed is used overwhelmingly as a sofa, with the bed function clustered into a handful of predictable occasions each year: family visits, celebrations, illness and disrupted sleep. Rather than put a figure on frequency, which no published UK dataset supports, the report examines what actually determines whether a sofa bed gets opened at all. Mechanism weight, open depth and single person operation emerge as the deciding factors, with delivery access proving a more common obstacle than room size because a steel bed action cannot flex through a tight staircase turn. The report sets out open depths by format, from compact click clack frames at around 100 cm to three fold pull out actions approaching 220 cm, alongside sleeping surface widths and the UK bedding sizes that fit them. The practical conclusion for buyers is to specify the sofa first, then the bed, and to measure the route into the room before anything else."}