The Guest Bed That Spends Its Days as a Sofa

Architectural Digest's editors have tried out a range of pull-out sofas and named the fifteen they consider the best. Plenty of American houses have no spare bedroom, and the overnight visitor still needs somewhere good to sleep. A well-made sofa bed lets the living room do two jobs: a real place to sit during the day and a real bed at night. It is a small bit of planning, and in a well-run house, the planning is what guests remember.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.