Why You HAVE to Have a Fouton

Having a futon is very important when living in a dorm room. The main reason behind this is that it functions as a couch as well as a bed for guests or for you whenever you do not think it wise to sleep in your loft bed, bunk bed or regular bed. The fact is that you have different options for seating in a dorm room. One could use several tailgating seats, and while this is cheap, I feel it is a bad idea because they are not very comfortable and sometimes one might want to lie down and watch TV or if one does not feel well then they can also lie down. Also, when one has friends who visit from out of town or down the hall who want to spend the night, well that's just not feasible with several tailgating chairs. Another option is to get a couch which is a bad idea, because unless you plan to throw the couch out at the end of the school year, it will be very upsetting if you get stains on it, which you will (unless you put plastic over it but I really don't think that you want to be compared to somebody's grandmother). Also a couch is heavy and you want to think about moving your stuff in and out of your dorm room. Futons are easily put together and are typically cheap. Plus you can pick them up and vacuum under them, which I'm sure is the top priority in any college students life.

I know firsthand that a lot of guys do not want to get futons because they do not think that their fella freinds will sit next to each other on a futon. This is stupid. Even if you have a larger than normal amount of guy friends, they will make due. Here is an idea, get some of your female friends to come over and use them as chikee buffers so that there is no accidental male leg touching male leg contact. The guy thing is problematic also because of the futon becoming a bed and most guys do not want to sleep in the same bed as another guy. This I cannot help you with, you just have to tell them to stop being big babies.

A typical futon will seat two or three people and will fold out into a queen, full or twin sized bed. In a college dorm room, it will most likely be a full sized bed. There are many different types of futons out there in a range of prices. If in a college dorm room, however, I would keep the price as low as possible seeing as how you will probably be moving around a lot over the following years and might not always have the space necessary for a futon.

Futons are also very helpful because they make a room appear more homey and fit perfeclty underneath a loft bed. It is highly suggestible to buy your futon from the same place that you buy your loft bed. This is becasue then it is more likely that the futon will be a perfect fit for the space underneath the loft bed.

Both of the items found on this page are located on the target website target.com. (from top to bottom) The first item is the Portland convertible sofas and it costs $529.99. This sofa comes in Dark Chocalate, Sage, and Black Microfiber. It is very nice because it is a sleeper sofa, however one then runs into the sofa problems. Then next item is the Mali Flex Futon in blue and White. This futon costs $188.99 and folds into a twin sized bed. I like this futon because it comes in a wide array of colors. This makes it very easy to coordinate to whatever color scheme that you are going for in your room. The last item on this page is the Convertible sofa bed in camel microfiber. This costs $429.99 and once again is a sleeper sofa.

There are futons out there that are much cheaper than the ones listed on this page and many universities have companies that sell loft beds