Most of the year this is just the green armchair in the study — thick cushions, rubberwood legs, nothing announcing what it does. The Hastings 1 Seater Fold-Out Sofa Bed keeps its second job hidden until the night someone stays over and the spare room turns out to be the room with the drying rack in it.

Folded flat it lays out to 193cm of sleeping length, so a guest shorter than that lies straight and a taller one sleeps with their feet past the end. It opens forward, into the room, rather than sideways along the wall, and the footprint more than doubles doing it. The coffee table goes out before bed and comes back in the morning.

Assembly is required, so anyone who will never fold it out is building a sofa bed to use as a chair — the Luva Velvet Swivel Armchair arrives assembled.