Our visitors used to sleep on our sofa bed in the loungeroom. We had a couple of problems with this: 1) neither Andrew or I really liked the sofas, we were constantly adjusting the cushions to make them comfortable, and 2) when people used the sofa bed it meant that the loungeroom was a bedroom, and I was wondering how we’d manage to have visitors in our flat once baby arrives….particularly in the middle of the night if the lounge/kitchen area was a sleeping area for others. We were spoilt at our wedding and received a number of cash gifts, and so we decided to buy a nicer lounge suite with the money. We are very happy with the leather lounge that we got, but there is no sofa bed. So our solution was to purchase an Aerobed that would fit into the baby’s room. It’s probably easier to move the baby elsewhere when there are visitors than to have visitors sleeping in the lounge!
The Aerobed is an inflatable bed with an inbuilt pump. The bed we got rises to 2 feet off the ground, so that it’s like a real bed. We thought that would be easier for our parents to use than one that is little more than an air mattress on the floor. The bed pumps up in around 3 minutes and is really quite comfortable. Yes, it’s a bit squishy in the baby’s room with little space on either side to walk, but hopefully it will be acceptable to our guests. We recently had Aurelie and Nico stay 3 nights on it, and they said it was good.
Oh, as you can see from the photo above, the wardrobe has now been finished as well! Andrew complained about the amount of inconvenience in getting it to this stage (something like 9 installation dates set, 4 when work was actually done, we had to do a lot of running around to make sure we would be home all of those times and rearrange the room each time they were supposed to come, and the job was finished 2 months late), and got us out of paying the final 10%!!
