This bed has been God sent. After going thru an endless list of sofa beds on FortyTwo, finally settled with this pull out sofa bed. It is firm n sturdy, opens up my hall, and my girls now eagerly fall asleep in on it, pretending to be camping. And they have good sleep as well. The sofa in itself has a clean cut, no nonsense look. Much better thn getting from Ikea and having to assemble/paying extra for assembly. Its worth every penny spent.