The Best Futons for Tall People

Measure the width, and compare it to your height

Convert your height to inches, add two for a pillow, and compare it to the open width on the listing. 5 ft 10 in is 70 inches. 6 ft is 72. 6 ft 3 in is 75 - the same as a standard twin mattress, which is exactly why twin mattresses are 75 inches long and futons generally are not.

Those last three rows are not bad products - the Mopio is the default recommendation in the best futons for small spaces and deserves to be. They are simply the wrong purchase for a tall sleeper, and the listings do not say so because the listings do not know who is reading.

Why keeping the full width is rare

On most split-backs the arms are fixed and the back folds down between them, so the flat surface is the seat width rather than the sofa width - typically ten inches less than the number on the box. The OSP Sawyer opens to the same 66 inches it occupies closed, which is the whole reason it is first here.

It also publishes its open bed size, 66 by 38.75 by 16.5 inches, which almost no other fold-back futon in this registry does. For a tall sleeper that is the second-most-useful figure on the listing: a taller frame is usually a heavier one, and a thin deck over a wood platform bottoms out at the hips first. A 15.7-inch seat height finishes the case - getting up off 16.5 inches is noticeably easier than off 15.

The honest costs: the Victorian legs and slim sloped arms give you nothing to lean against, it is 64 lb assembled, and it opens 5.25 inches deeper than it sits (33.5 to 38.75 inches).

The answer with no length problem at all

The CosmoLiving Liberty sectional is second, and in pure fit terms it is first: 76.5 by 68.5 inches open. 88 inches is 7 ft 4 in of bed length and 66 inches of depth is more than a full mattress is wide. Nobody is too tall for it and two people are not cramped on it. 600 lb stated, and the chaise does the work so there is no pull-out mechanism to fail.

What it costs is the whole subject of this site. Closed, it is 55.5 inches deep - more floor than most futons occupy when they are open - and 136.5 lb assembled. In a studio it is the wrong answer however well it fits your body. In a spare room or a basement it is the obvious one.

Third is the CouCouchmans memory foam futon with its open size unpublished, which covers up to about 5 ft 11 in with a pillow. It is the comfort pick of the fold-backs - responsive memory foam over high-density foam with a 15.7-inch seat height - and it is on this page as the honest ceiling for anyone around six feet rather than well over it.

The route that fixes length and comfort together

The fourth pick is not a sofa. A standard American full futon frame takes a 75 by 54 inch mattress, and the Royal Sleep Products 10-inch pocket coil futon mattress is exactly that: 75 by 54 by 10 inches, pocket coils with CertiPUR-US foam and cotton batting over them. 75 inches is a true twin length, eight inches is more depth than any fold-back futon publishes, and the mattress bi-folds with the frame.

So if the room can take a futon frame rather than a convertible sofa, a frame plus this mattress gives a tall sleeper more length and more support than any of the three sofas above. The cost is ten inches of mattress on a frame that has to fold - stiff for the first dozen folds, and a light tube-steel frame will feel it. The whole field is in the best futon mattresses, and the sizing systems are untangled in futon mattress sizes.

Who should buy which

Buy the OSP Sawyer Convertible Futon Sofa if you are up to about 6 ft 7 in and want a futon that still looks and sits like a normal sofa. A published open bed, 7.5-inch published mattress, 600 lb.

Buy the CosmoLiving Liberty sectional if the room can give up 55.5 inches of depth permanently. 76.5 by 68.5 inches solves height and width at once.

Buy the CouCouchmans memory foam futon if you are under six feet and want the softest deck of the three. an unpublished open size, memory foam, highest open surface here.

Buy a full futon frame plus the Royal Sleep Products 10-inch pocket coil mattress if the piece can be a futon rather than a sofa. 75 by 54 inches of true twin length and eight inches of pocket coil beats every convertible on this page on support.

Side sleepers have a different first question - shoulder depth rather than length - and that one is answered in the best futons for side sleepers. If the futon will be slept on every night, read is sleeping on a futon bad for you first.

The next two questions a tall guest raises are sizing and frames: what actually exists at 80 inches of length is in twin XL guest beds, and the frame families that cap mattress depth - and therefore comfort - are in futon frame types explained.