When we moved into our house last summer, we had planned to get a sofa bed for the lounge, but dsis and BIL offered us their very comfy corner sofa as they were replacing theirs. We gladly accepted so no room downstairs for a sofa bed. I’d vaguely mentioned that I’d looked at the Ikea site and seen a small one which may fit in the boys room.
They came down to visit, went to Ikea on the way and bought us the sofa bed as a housewarming gift. It’s currently in the boys room, which we are about to decorate.
Unfortunately this sofa isn’t ideal - it takes up all the free space in their rather small room when folded, it’s insanely uncomfortable even to sit on, and it’s pretty ugly. We’ve currently got an old futon mattress on top of it as without that it’s ljle sleeping on the floor. Had I seen it in person and measured up for it, or sat on it, i wouldn’t have bought it. I so appreciate the generosity and kindness of the gift and now I’m stuck. For reference it was about £100 I think.
As we are really ripping their room apart and redecorating, I would quite like to get rid of it. If I’d bought it myself, I would get rid of it, but because it was a gift I feel terrible about it. They’re the only people who’ve slept on it, twice, and they agree it’s insanely uncomfortable. I want to put some kind of comfy seating in there for the boys for reading etc which I can’t do if this is in there.
There’s literally nowhere in our small terraced house it would fit. I’ve asked my DH if we can disassemble it and put it in the loft so that we can use it up there when we’ve converted the loft but that’s at least 18 months away. That feels better than getting rid of it. We have an air mattress guests can use which is honestly more comfortable!
What would you do?