Not sure why this handsome, clever convertible mattress costs as much as a couch, but if money is no object, here's a nice solution that allows your kids to have a reading chair in their rooms that can be transformed into a lounger and then into single bed for overnight guests...

Designed by Paola Verzona, the Lit Lea 2 is available from File dans ta chambre. And it looks grown up enough so that you could consider it an investment that could follow your child into adolescence, college and their first studio apartment.

- Kristin Hohenadel blogging from Paris. She can be reached at kristin @ apartmenttherapy . com