My partner and I are looking to move in to a new place in a month, and are looking at furnishing options.
It’s a rental house/unit (so not our forever home), around 90sqm. Given it’s our first move, we didn’t want to spend too much on furnishing as we don’t think it’s the right time to apply the “buy once cry once” rule. We are planning on buying a forever home in the near future (sometime within the next 2 years, largely dependent on where our jobs take us), and so we think we could potentially furnish it nicer/better if we needed/wanted.
At the moment, we have on the cards a koala queen sized sofa bed + ottoman that a friend is offering to sell to us for $1100 (RRP $1800, receipt and invoice included, they paid full price) that they bought new last year in March. They haven’t used it very much and were hoping to use it as a spare/for family to stay over. But thanks to Covid, their family weren’t able to visit much and thus they have not been able to utilise it as much as they would have liked.
We don’t know much about sofas, and are of the opinion that furniture can be a minefield with price, value, quality etc. So we’re throwing it out to the Ozb experts to share some tips:
- What’s a good value couch at $1000 (It does not have to be a sofa bed, our friend's just so happens to be one).
- Is the koala sofa bed any good? (This koala thing seems to be an ageing new trend)
Thanks team!
https://www.ikea.com/au/en/cat/vimle-series-37814/
Modular design so pick your preferred layout.
I bought a 3 seater (non-sofa bed) and have guests sleep on it frequently. It’s very comfortable as a bed.
But there is also now a sofa bed option if that is preferable.