Replacing jack-knife sofa with residential hide-a bed

This potential modification may or may not be as controversial as my previous thread. Has anyone considered, investigated or pursued replacing the jack-knife sofa in a 2720SL with a residential sofa/sleeper or "hide-a-bed"?

If it is feasible dimensionally this would allow a couple to not have to crawl over each other when getting out of bed in the night. Thanks in advance for the input.

[scrubjaysnest]

I would be very concerned about the extra weight.

[Bill]

WHY would you want to do this? I've spent nights on a hide-a-bed, and they are vastly more uncomfortable than the TM sofa.

Bill

[ThePair]

A better idea would be just to engineer a longer base, and use an appropriate sized air mattress on top. There was a thread in the past on this idea, but it seems fairly straightforward, as only the "foot" area (e.g. the leading edge of the couch cushion) would need to be "lengthened" to allow for support of an air mattress, which could be stored under the couch when not in use.

Replacing the couch would mean giving up storage, the furnace, and adding significant weight to the slide-out, which would make utilizing that mechanism more difficult, not to mention towing weights if you're close to your limit. On the other hand, creating some kind of platform that can clip onto the underside of the cushion and rest on the floor to take the weight of the foot of the air mattress would alleviate all of these issues, with a lot less fuss.