I bought this for a balcony because ALL my local DIY/Argos etc have sold out of garden sofas during lockdown.

It’s not a bad solution, it’s pretty comfortable, it’s obviously a bit bouncy, probably better for a camping situation than a permanent bit of furniture, but it was better than nothing during very hot August.

Just be aware that it is inflatable and if like me, you live in a windy area, you might find it flies off your first balcony into your neighbours yard, on a very windy day. Its been deflated sitting in my spare room for a week now, as I’m scared to put it outside when I can’t keep an eye on it, incase it flies off again. I live in front of a park, so with high winds it could go quite a bit further! 😀

Could do with some fittings to lash it down with ropes, I’m considering half filling the base with water as a solution, but not sure if its’ designed to take the weight?

We just moved in to a new apartment and was worrying about purchasing a new sofa on top of everything else!

Originally we was going to throw some deck chairs in the living room and hope for the best but after my dad suggested a “blow up sofa” first place I went was Amazon, and lucky for me I saw this beauty.

As you can see from the photo it doesn’t look like what you’d think of when you hear “blow up sofa”, the size itself makes it amazing ! We didn’t expect it to make the room look so homely.
It’s covered with a soft velvet like material, and everyone who has come to visit us so far has LOVED it.

We don’t need to worry about purchasing a sofa for a while now.

The 1 downside I would say might annoy some people (not us as we don’t really care) it does need some pumping up every so often but only takes 5 mins max.

Hope you enjoy !

Well, the downside is that it’s kind of butt ugly and one of the cushions is already losing air (after only 1 month), but I don’t intend to replace the couch anytime soon. I might replace the cushions with foam ones, though.

I do have a couple minor complaints: (1) the placement of one of the air valves is awkwardly on the bottom of the couch. You do have to put in more air once in a while with these things, but to refill the lower part of the couch, you have to lie on the floor and lift the thing up at that end in order to stick your air pump on it. Come on, the couch is already ugly, they could have just stuck the valve on the back side so it was more easily accessible. (2) You need 3 different size adapters for your air pump because they used 3 different sized valves. Pretty dumb.

I like the idea of inflatable furniture and they’ve really improved over the years. I’ve slept on Intex air mattresses for years and wouldn’t have anything else. Add a mattress topper and they’re great.

All in all, the couch was a pretty good purchase and I would do it again. I recommend it, especially if you’re cheap like me and also don’t like having to move heavy furniture around.

It took us around an hour to get the main unit and 3 cushions blown up. We had some difficulty with the cushions and had to finish pumping them up by blowing into the units, although the electric pump did most of the task.

We’ve been using it for over 3 weeks, many guests have sat on the sofa and it is still ‘standing’.. We have to top up the air every week or so. You will need an electric air pump.

Another thing I appreciated about this sofa, is that it gave us the opportunity to get a ‘feel’ of how a corner sofa would suit the space. Thanks to this temporary solution we have been braver with our sofa choice and gone for a bigger unit. Also, we’ve opted for a light coloured sofa which we may not have done had we not had this one up.. Happy to recommend this.