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Nothing can quite match the dual functionality of the sofa bed. For many years these incredible contraptions have doubled the sleeping capacity of our houses and made our subconscious home image so much larger. Family get-togethers and holiday celebrations are made as easy as a brief argument about how the sofa should open.

The added security of having a good sofa bed in case of guest emergencies will let many a family sleep better in their conventional beds.

What reason might you want a leather sofa bed? I hear you ask. And what might it be? What it is not is a leather guest bed. The bed and bed mechanisms will be identical to the non-leather sofa beds, merely using leather as an alternative covering for the sofa. I am sure if you searched far enough there would be a leather bed version too, after all the sofa bed and the rock and roll lifestyle practically slept together for many early years.

So what it comes down to is if there is any difference in selecting leather over fabric to cover a sofa bed. Two of the perennial problems with sofa beds in years gone by are that they were often not as comfortable to sit on as normal sofas, and were often considered a bit of a joke. Modern designs are rarely noticeably less plump to sit on or less orthopedically shaped, but there is still a slight sense of sofa inferiority in my mind at least, when considering a sofa bed in concept. After all, how could a multipurpose sofa bed be as good to sit on as a dedicated, specialist, designed just for the job normal sofa.

It is of course untrue, and most modern sofa beds are indistinguishable from their  underperforming sofa cousins, both to look at and to sit on. If you wanted to be absolutely sure that the Joneses didn’t know that you had a sofa bed, cover it in leather.

There has always been a very slight snobbery about leather furniture being better. Leather evokes both the traditional and the racy lifestyle when you see it, in a way that fabric furniture rarely does. You imagine, mostly incorrectly, that the majority of major historical events must have taken part on a leather sofa or at least with one nearby.  Mostly correctly you also know that anyone who is truly anyone would own only leather furniture.

If the Queen uses it then it must be the best. Right or wrong, leather furniture gives us a feeling of Empire and history, of affluence and permanence. Leather is a symbol of man’s covenant with nature and induces feelings of power over our environment. You surely cannot forget the old, musty halls of museums and castles and universities where the leather furniture took pride of place below the paintings.

My point is that a leather finish is the most effective way to keep a sofa bed a secret, as no one would possibly believe that that leather would hide a bed, not even the Joneses.