Decorator’s Demand For Multi-Use Furniture Sparks a Futon Trend

A long-time favorite is making a huge comeback in high style—the futon. Designers have answered the demand from decorators for more fashionable and comfortable futon furniture that offers the same versatility with new style.

Affordable, space-saving, multi-use furniture is a must to accommodate active lifestyles. Experts say futons have become ‘real’ furniture with updated styles. They are making their way into living rooms, home offices, office buildings, RV’s and on boats. They commonly show up on popular sitcoms, and movie sets.

New trends include technologically advanced mattresses made with latex and visco elastics that sense and respond to a person’s body temperature, and frames made of rattan and fine hard woods with covers made from leather and upscale upholstery.

Designers say it’s an affordable way to update or redecorate a room while adding space, versatility, and functionality-- with style. In today’s economy where apartments are smaller and budgets tighter, futons provide an economic alternative.

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* Footage from Annual Futon and Specialty Expo
* Latex and visco elastic mattresses, leather frames and covers, rattan frames
* Futons in homes, owners sitting on them, someone sleeping
* More futon shots

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* TBD futon frame maker
* TBD futon owner
* Pattie MacMillan, X

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