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Just looks too uncomfortable to function as a sofa and ugly as a bed.

More of a design piece than any sort of day-time use (as far as sitting goes) but really beautiful, nonetheless.

Is it me or is it really low to the ground? That would be horrible as a sofa and a bed...if my bed was that low, it would be so much easier to roll out and then use the bed to help myself up - LOL.

I love the look of it but the back is too short to be comfortable as a sofa. I live in 300 s.f. and my bed doubles as a sofa.

The wide wide base would take up WAY too much room! Not my favorite...

No way you could sit back on that monstrosity as a sofa.

Just to be the sole dissenting voice, I'd love to have that in my guest bedroom/office space.

I think the surrounding rails are too low to really support the kind of large pillows you would need to actually use it as/like a couch.

it looks good... ok, may i just rave about the mirrors at the back?

i love them. are they set on wheels? vintage bike's wheels?

I'm not crazy about the design of this. Looks most uncomfortable!

Golly, I'm the one who usually hates everything. But this seems pretty nice for a spare bed. Couldn't function as your main reading/TV watching couch, for sure, but as a guestbed in the spare room, just fine. Right now, I've got Ikea's folding foam chair to use when there's a guest. Now that is a really sitter-unfriendly object.

checked this out in-store... imho, only really useful as a bed (or lounge, if you have someone to feed you grapes)... even as a bed, i didn't find it that comfortable -- a disconcerting "sinking" feeling when sitting/lying... like it was full of big, hollow, less-than-supportive springs. we're waiting for a modern, affordable, comfortable daybed (i.e.: works well as a sofa by day and transforms quickly to a small bed when needed)... this was not it. modernica's case study daybed still tops the list, but is a bit pricey for what it is... i can't figure out why ikea hasn't come up with something...

I think this looks pretty nice. Obviously not going to be comfy enough for a primary couch/bed, but for a guest room this would be lovely.

Funny how different poll is from the comments. Looks like everyone who dislikes this left a comment.

Look, nothing that holds a twin mattress is going to look exactly like a sofa. That said, this is a fairly attractive daybed IMO. I like it.

It looks like it could be ok as a bed but in my experience with daybeds, you need way more support along the back than throw pillows offer. They look nice but they just aren't enough when you lean back on them.

Several people say that it's too unconfortable to serve as sofa, well, if you want a sofa you should buy one, not a daybed (except me of course because I don't seem to be able to sit in my couch, I always seem to end up lying down). I think, like someone else said it would work very well in a guest room/office.

I like the look, but to me function is even more important. Daybeds in general are too deep to be something comfortable and supportive to sit on without a ton of pillows to fill the space between where your back hits with your feet on the floor and the actual back of the daybed. Then you have to deal with all those pillows if someone wants to sleep there. Also, I personally am opposed to foot boards. (I'm short, but I scooch down on the mattress and dangle my toes over the end when I sleep on my stomach -- a foot board would damage my toes! Maybe nobody else ever would worry about it, but I never choose footboards for that reason, and daybeds just automatically have them...)

So for me, a multi use option would need to be a sleep sofa or a futon, where the sitting is at least as comfortable as the sleeping. (And ideally also permits two to sleep comfortably.)

I love this so much....have been looking for a good solution for our sunroom, and this would be perfection....The $1099 price tag, however, is out of my budget for now. Hopefully I'll find it on sale some day.

I like the JRT

having tested it, this isn't even comfortable as a bed, imho... far less comfortable than a twin mattress on a platform. also, too deep for many/most twin fitted sheets... also worthy of note i that it is marketed as a sofa (from the CB2 site: "Get horizontal. Studio sofa accommodates lots of throw pillows for hanging out by day, twin sheets for out of towners by night..."). would have been more of a win with thick back cushions (for a more shallow sofa-seating) and a thinner, more supportive seat/mattress. as it stands, it looks like it's missing pieces (back cushions, specifically) and is too fat/tall (the "back" is dwarfed by the thickness of the seat which creates a weird proportion). i s'pose, you could use the frame (which is nice) and get a more comfortable mattress and have back cushions made, but...

While I like the appearance - but I could see pillows easily falling through those wide gaps in the frame...

The general shape and style is nice, but seems lacking and as already been noted, the cushion nearly dwarfs the arms and back and it looks awfully thick for most twin sheet sets IMO to begin with.

As a place to curl up in, might be OK, but the lack of sides makes that difficult without shoving it into a corner, which would hide its nice, if somewhat clumsy lines.

Going against the grain here...but I like it. Might work in my playroom....I'd get a bolster pillow made to go along the back and then for slumber parties..we'd have an extra bed.

Reminds me of a crib.

While I appreciate CB2's design efforts, this one misses for me. It looks like it would make for some uncomfortable lounging. At the very least it should come with a back cushion/bolster option like the daybeds at West Elm.

And is it just me, or is the CB2 price point rocketing skyward? Some of the sectionals they sell cross the $3K mark (before tax and delivery) once you add up the pieces.

ambivalent leaning toward NOT!

Don't like it at all. There is absolutely no way someone could actually use that as a sofa, especially not in the place where they have it positioned in that photo. How do you recline on it? The rails are too low all the way around to support that. Might be fine for sleeping, but that's about it. Ick.

Love it, and I'll take the dog in the top left corner, too!

NO
For the space you would have to sacrifice to fit the depth, it had better be uber comfortable, which has been stated above, it is not.
NO again...for those stairs/ladder....and I love big dogs....
One postive, the rug.

The removable cover is a nice feature, though I'd prefer a machine washable fabric, and the option to purchase additional covers. As others have commented, the size might be a problem. Daybeds often are used in rooms with limited space, so the 48" frame depth may not be practical - that's even deeper than most regular sofas.

I have the west elm Tillary, which is kind of a daybed too, since twin sheets fit the base. I like it, but some guests have a hard time figuring out how to sit without scooting the bolsters off the back.

It's nice that we have more choices now, anyway - years ago when I looked for daybeds they were mostly black metal powdercoat tubes or the white wrought-iron-look leaves and flowers!