Solid Wood Ultralight Futon Frame

Comment: i actually thought it was gonna be a lil higher but it is extremely low....

Comment: This is one of those things that if you had seen it in a store or if amazon puts up better pictures, you would not buy. The wooden planks which are of pretty good quality, are simply to thin. If any weight is concentrated on the center of the frame I guarantee you that it will snap (as it has happened to mine). I guess you can chuck it up to a design flaw.

Another issue worth noting, and probably the most important one, is that this frame does not fold like a traditional futon frame does. In other words it folds across not lengthwise.

This futon frame has 3 settings, bed mode, lounge chair (like a lazyboy), and sofa (more like a loveseat).

When in bed mode it's almost like your sleeping on the floor. You have literally like 3 or 4 inches from floor to frame (think japanese cots), getting up in the morning is a pain; it is simply to strenuous.

The lounge chair/recliner is my favorite setting. You can watch tv, read, relax, snuggle with significant other etc... Very useful.

The couch is also good, except for the setting it up part. I would recommend that you get somebody to help you, because as you may or may not know futons are notoriously difficult to handle. Basically you have two options for setting up the couch you can either fold the futon at the top and have that part hang over the back of the frame (unsightly), or you you can fold the futon at the bottom creating a double cushion effect (preferred, and it actually looks like a couch).

Anyway, I would not recommend this, but I guess it has its uses and for the price you cant go wrong.

Comment: We happenned to have an extra queen futon mattress and needed an inexpensive frame to use it in the basement... For the price, the wood was good quality, easy to assemble (and I'm a girl)... my only complaint is that I did not realize since there is no queen picture, that is does not fold like a standard futon frame... i.e. if you thought it would fold length-wise, it actually folds width-wise. So, if you wanted mostly a couch, it would be smaller, or if you wanted a bed, it actually rests right on the floor. I would have rather spent a little more and gotten a standard folding frame...

Comment: I purchased this to use as a sleep surface for guests, as well as a sofa between guests. It has been in use solely as a bed for a month, used by 2 young boys. It is very well made, and has served its purpose well.

The diagrams in the installation instructions weren't that great, leading to misreading the orientation of some pieces. I had to disassemble and re-assemble these -- resulting in about 30-45 min. extra effort. All told, it took me about 1.5 hours to put together with an electric screwdriver.

One of the screws came loose later -- no fault in the product. The screw hole was backed up by a knot. Also, when used as a sofa, it is rather low to the ground. I like it that way, but others may not.

Comment: This is exactly as advertised: light weight yet sturdy enough to use as a sofa, reasonably easy to assemble (give it about an hour with a cordless drill), nice looking in its simplicity. I like that it folds across the short dimension of the mattress, so when it's folded up as a couch it doesn't take up much wall space. And it's got these little plastic wheels that don't look like much but actually work really well to reposition it when you want to pull it out as a bed.