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If you have a large room that you wish to segment or even if you have a small room you are best off buying for a corner sofa. Corner sofas are so adaptable and can be used in so many ways. A corner sofa gives you the option of changing a layout of a room easier than if you went for a traditional 2 seater sofa shape not just initially but also after months if you feel like a change.

Today, most rooms are not exactly how we’d like them to be set out, so in order to alleviate this we need to go for options that help us with this little conundrum. A corner sofa is one of the most ingenious designs by adding both style and shape and also the imperative of comfort.

Chimneybreasts tend to segment a room directly in the center just so that it makes it more difficult to make a large lounge or living room in to a lounge dining room with two sofas. Having two large sofas around does somewhat restrict what you are able to do with a room with the chimneybreast issue. Maybe you have like us, thought of getting rid of one of you sofas so that you can free up some space to place a dining room table and chairs but it just isn’t feasible as having the space that they provide is always nice for when people come over so you don’t feel as though you have to sit on the floor with the dogs when entertaining!

So try a corner sofa – that is really the best solution to this dilemma and an extremely popular one. By having a corner sofa, you still have the space to provide enough room for a) Your guests  b) Plenty of space to stretch out whilst watching a movie c) More usable area for you to utilize as something else i.e. getting that long awaited dining room table so you won’t have to sit on your original sofas and eat on you lap anymore! You can then get a leather armchair to compliment your sofa – and this offers a lot of flexibility.

Choosing the right colour and style

My advice before venturing out and buying a corner suite is to think about materials and look you wish to achieve in your room. There are many varying options of material and style – some more contemporary than others and some more comfortable than others, so be sure to try them out as well. If you have small children, I would advise you think seriously about getting a leather corner sofa. A leather sofa, if you do have the budget, will last a lifetime and it won’t date. Spillages and stains can be simply wiped off and even though it will cost a little more at the outset, it will make up for your investment.

Leather corner sofas come in varying colours and types of leather so you will still have many options for making it fit in with your style.

A brown leather corner suite looks soft and slick. The rich tones that a brown leather gives out, I feel is warming and it will match any interior. Chocolate browns look stunning with duck egg blues, sage greens, purples and creams. There really is no colour that will not sit comfortably with a brown leather option.

A black leather corner sofa looks just as good – by sticking to these simple colours you will find that they won’t date and they will hide marks a little better than on a red or green leather option. Black leather looks cutting edge and high fashion if contrasted with white and grey making a great either a 1920s style statement or a 1960s bold retro feel. Black and white gives clean and crisp design and teamed with the correct interior will look stunning. Although you may be tempted to make a statement and buy a red leather corner sofa we would recommend to keep the colour simple i.e. black, white or brown and then you can change the decoration every few years instead of coughing up for another sofa!

Not only should you bear in mind the style of the sofa, you should also consider the functionality of it. For example do you frequently have guest over? Perhaps a corner sofa bed would be ideal and you’ll be pleased to hear that there are many leather corner sofa beds on the market.

Caring for your leather sofa

Quite honestly, I would recommend either baby wipes which work really well on getting any grime off and also putting back into the leather some much needed oils and moisture which does get lost over the years. There are protectors on the market, which you will need to coat the sofa in at least once a year but these are more pricey!

A corner sofa bed is a unique piece of furniture that not only looks great but is also very functional. If you live in a smaller home without a second bedroom but like having guests over to stay then you may well be consider buying a sofa bed. LiveIn|LiveOut recently looked at five tips for buying a corner sofa and all of these tips still apply to corners sofa beds, but there are additional factors to consider. To start off with lets just summarise the five tips for buying a regular corner sofa:

1. Left or right handed – You need to decide whether the sofa is to be left or right handed.
2. Leather or cloth – Leather is a great hardwearing material for sofas.
3. Do you want it to be a sofa bed – well that’s what this article is looking at
4. Modular – Do you like to move things about or does your home have limited access?
5. Consider whether you want and L-shaped corner sofa or a curved corner sofa.

Do you want extra storage for bedding?

The one big advantage that a corner sofa bed has over a regular sofa bed is that more often than not they will have a large amount of space that you can store bedding in. Although some sofa beds do offer this as an option it will come at the expense of the comfortableness of the bed. If the sofa bed you are looking for allows for storage of bedding then it will probably not have a very thick mattress. A corner sofa bed with storage however has the ‘other’ seats available where you can store pillows, duvets and even guest towels if you so wished and the bed mechanism will then be stored under the other seats. This allows a generous amount of space for a good quality thick mattress.

Do you want to have a generous sleeping area?

Corner sofa beds do tend to offer a much larger sleeping space compared to the non-corner type of sofa bed. Obviously they will take up more room as a sofa – but if you are opting for a corner sofa anyway then you have probably already thought about the space requirements. If you regularly have the same guest over to stay then you may as well make them as comfortable as possible.

What type of sofabed action do you want?

There are at least ten different mechanisms available for sofa beds but the three most popular are:

• A 3-fold metal action
• A slide and lift mechanism
• A modular pouf and sofa

Which mechanism you decide upon will be largely dictated by how often you expect the bed to be used. If you frequently have guests over and expect the bed to be used one or two times per month then the 3 fold metal action may well be the best option. Similar to the traditional camp bed, it is a tried and tested method of providing a stable and supportive sleeping area, you may think that this doesn’t seem very sophisticated but what you should really be worried about is the mattress that will sit on top of the system as this is the main point of contact for any guests.

The second method of turning the sofa in to a bed is that of the slide and lift mechanism and It’s a very slick and easy mechanism to use. When it is unfolded it provides as good as support as the 3-fold mechanism however it’s sophistication means that there is much more to go wring with it. That said if you are only going to be using your corner sofa bed a couple of times a year then there is certainly nothing wrong with this option at all.

The third main action for creating a bed from a sofa is comes in the form of a modular sofa that comes with a pouf. It is the least sophisticated method of creating a sofa bed. Effectively the pouf fills in the gap in the ’L’ which in turn makes the sofa in to a rectangle and consequently a bed. There is certainly nothing to go wrong with this option but what you do need to consider is the material that the sofa is made from. The pouf being a fixed element will not be able to be turned over for people to sleep on so you may have to take in to consideration the wear and tear of the fabric. A leather corner sofa bed that also has a leather pouf would be a much better material to use if this was the type of bed mechanism that you wanted. The main draw back to this type of sofa is that you obviously need a pouf so when the bed is not made up – which most of the time is not – then where are you going to put the pouf?

Hopefully this short guide will have given you something to think about and allow you to make an informed decision when you are out shopping for a corner sofa bed.