IKEA Hemnes Daybed Alternatives

The four things people are replacing

Break the brief into its parts and the choice gets much easier, because no single frame on this page is best at all four.

Notice the trade that runs through the whole table: drawers and a second bed use the same space. One frame here does both — the ONBRILL — and it pays for it in depth, at 47.24 inches with the trundle stowed, which is six or seven inches more than an ordinary daybed. Everything else picks a side.

If storage is what you are really after, the fuller list is the best daybeds with storage. If it is the second bed, go to the best daybeds with a trundle.

If what you want is a single that becomes a double

This is the part of the brief people care about most, and it is worth knowing that the American market solves it differently from the European one. Instead of a frame that pulls out to a double, you get a pop-up trundle: a second twin rolls out and then lifts to the daybed’s own height, so two twins make one level surface about 76 by 75 inches — king width, twin length.

That is wider than a double and shorter, which is the honest difference. For two adults it is more width and five inches less length than a standard full. For a parent and a child it is better in every respect.

Three frames here do it. The ONBRILL publishes over 880 lb on thickened metal bars and ten legs. The Deolme publishes 300 lb on the daybed and 250 on the trundle, in solid pine under velvet, at the smallest footprint on this page. The GIANTEX uses a plain roll-out trundle at floor level rather than a pop-up, and publishes 250 lb and 200 lb — modest, and stated, which is more than most of the category manages.

The catch on every pop-up frame: the two mattresses must be the same depth or the surface never levels, and none of these makers publishes a maximum mattress thickness. Buy both mattresses together and ask the seller for the depth limit first. The format in full is in the best daybeds that convert to a king.

If what you want is the timber

Three of these five are genuinely solid timber, and the listings say which: solid wood with thick slat panels on the GIANTEX, solid plantation hardwood with a mahogany finish on the JULYFOX, and solid pine with thirteen slats underneath the velvet on the Deolme.

The JULYFOX is the one that most resembles a plain wooden daybed: headboard and footboard, wooden side rails, 400 lb published, and about 9.6 inches of clear floor underneath. There are no drawers — the space under it is open shelf, so whatever you store there is on show — and there is no trundle. If what you liked about the original was the timber and the look rather than the mechanism, this is the frame.

The Bellemave is the opposite choice: the frame is wood but you never see it, because the daybed is upholstered in polyester over foam with two storage drawers built into the base and a USB point in the left armrest. At 41 lb it is the lightest frame here by a long way, which matters if it is going up a staircase. No weight capacity is published, which is normal in that construction and worth knowing.

The material comparison in full is in the best wood daybeds, the best upholstered daybeds and the best metal daybeds.

The thing no daybed includes

Whichever frame you buy, the photograph has cushions in it and the box does not. A daybed is 39 to 47 inches deep with a rail at the back and nothing behind your shoulders, so until you add back support it is a bed you can perch on rather than a sofa.

What fixes it is a bolster or a wedge. A 36-inch foam wedge, five inches deep at the top and nine at the base, turns the back rail into a sofa back; two of them span 72 inches of a 75-inch daybed. The cost is depth — a nine-inch wedge takes a 39-inch daybed to about 30 inches of usable seat, which is a normal sofa.

Our picks for that are in the best daybed bolster pillows, and the covers and bedding in the best daybed bedding.

Who should buy which

Buy the ONBRILL if you want the whole brief in one frame: a second bed that levels, two storage drawers on wheels, an upholstered headboard, a built-in power outlet and a top shelf, with over 880 lb published. Accept 47.24 inches of depth with the trundle stowed, 96.7 lb, and no published maximum mattress thickness.

Buy the GIANTEX twin with trundle as the budget pick. Solid wood with thick slat panels, a roll-out trundle, 73 lb, numbered parts — and the only separate capacity figures on this page. Accept that 250 lb and 200 lb make it a frame for one adult and one child.

Buy the Deolme twin to king if the room is tight and two adults sleep there. Solid pine under velvet, a pop-up trundle that levels, the smallest footprint here, USB and Type-C in the armrest. Accept 135.1 lb, a 300/250 lb split, and velvet in a house with pets.

Buy the Bellemave upholstered twin if storage beats a second bed and the frame has to go upstairs. Two drawers in the base, USB in the armrest, 80 inches long, 41 lb. Accept polyester and MDF over a wood frame, no published capacity, and no trundle.

Buy the JULYFOX frame if it is the plain timber daybed you were after. Solid plantation hardwood, headboard and footboard, 400 lb, 9.6 inches of clear floor underneath. Accept open storage rather than drawers, and one sleeping surface.