Studio Apartment Guest Bed Ideas

1. A roll-up mattress in a closet — zero permanent footprint

The only option here that costs nothing at all when it is away. A MAXYOYO floor futon is four inches thick and comes in real mattress sizes — twin 39 by 80 inches at 10 pounds, queen 60 by 80 at 14.5.

The measurement: the clear floor where it will be laid, which is the mattress size plus a walkway. And somewhere to store it — a wardrobe floor or behind a door.

The cost: four inches on a hard floor, and getting up off it. Put it on a slatted roll-up base if it stays down more than a night, or it traps moisture. Floor futons.

2. A tri-fold mattress standing in a wardrobe

A Milliard tri-fold folds to a folded size Milliard does not publish, so it stands upright on a wardrobe floor and needs no strapping.

The measurement: 31 inches of wardrobe floor width, and 78 by 38 inches of clear floor when in use.

The cost: cot width. 31 inches is seven inches narrower than a twin, and the two fold lines are findable through six inches of foam if you sleep on your side.

3. A rolling cabinet bed pushed into a corner

The Mjkone is a 63-inch-wide queen cabinet that turns on a 180-degree rotating mechanism and is fixed to nothing. It is the only guest bed on this site you can move with one hand, which in a studio is worth more than it sounds — the same object can be beside the sofa this week and in the corner next.

The measurement: 86.5 inches of length to unfold into, and 34 inches of depth.

The cost: cot size again, and a four-inch included mattress. 485-pound capacity, 15 birch slats.

4. A cabinet bed used as a console

A Night & Day Cube is 64.1 by 26.4 by 36.6 inches closed — about ten square feet, and roughly console-table proportions. It holds a queen sleeping surface and opens to 80.3 inches deep. Nothing is drilled.

In a studio this is often the smartest single purchase: it works as a media console, a sideboard or a room divider all day, and it becomes a real bed at night.

The measurement: about 110 to 116 inches of depth in use (80.3 open plus 30 to 36 of walkway), and a delivery route for 170 pounds of assembled furniture that does not come apart.

The cost: the weight, and a six-inch tri-fold mattress rather than a conventional one. Cabinet beds.

5. A daybed as the sofa, with a bolster

A daybed is 41 inches deep permanently, which is a lot in a studio, and it gives you a conventional eight-inch mattress with no mechanism. With a firm full-length bolster it is genuinely sittable.

A lower frame matters here more than anywhere: a 34-inch wood frame reads as a sofa back where a 41-inch metal one visually divides the room.

The measurement: 41 inches of permanent depth, plus a trundle’s width again if you want two beds.

The cost: it looks like a bed, and it always will. Daybeds for studios.

6. A convertible sofa you actually sit on

If you already have your own bed and the guest bed can be your sofa, a split-back convertible is the straightforward answer. Look for published seat figures — the Serta Terrell states a 7.1-inch seat cushion, the Rane a 19.8-inch seat depth and 15-inch seat height — because in a studio you sit on it every day.

The measurement: 33 to 35 inches closed, 37.6 to 44 inches open, plus 30 inches of walkway.

The cost: a fold seam under whoever sleeps on it. Futons for studios.

7. A wall bed over a sofa — the best answer if it fits

The MERITLINE queen Murphy bed with couch drops a queen bed over a sofa that never moves. A real sofa and a real queen mattress on the same floor, and the cleverest solution in this whole category.

The measurement: 87.5 in. of cabinet at the wall — 7 ft 3 in, among the tallest requirement anywhere on this site — and 92 inches of extension from the wall.

The cost: the price, a dual-mount installation into wall and floor that most leases prohibit, and a sofa warranted for one year against the bed’s ten. Sofa combos and what a lease allows.