Klaussner Sleeper Sofas: A Reference for the Discontinued Models
Klaussner Home Furnishings shut down on August 7, 2023, with essentially no warning. Sixty years of upholstery manufacturing in Asheboro, North Carolina ended in a single day, and one of the largest sleeper sofa programs in the American market ended with it.
The sofas themselves did not go anywhere. They are still in living rooms, still being slept on by holiday guests, and still generating questions from owners trying to read a frame number off a tag, price a replacement mattress, or work out what to buy now that the collection is gone. This is a reference for those owners, built from our own order records for Klaussner sleepers sold in the two years leading up to the closure.
What happened to Klaussner
Klaussner was founded in 1963 and took its name from Hans Klaussner, who bought the company in 1979. Management acquired it in 2011 and sold it to private equity firm Monomoy Capital Partners in 2017. At the end it was still producing more than 70 percent of its goods domestically across five North Carolina campuses, on sales of roughly 300 million dollars a year.
The company's statement said its lending source had unexpectedly refused to keep funding operations. Somewhere between 900 and 1,100 people lost their jobs the same week, with no severance and without the 60 days of notice the WARN Act normally requires. Inventory was liquidated over the following months, and in 2024 the brand assets went to auction through Hilco Streambank on behalf of a court-appointed receiver.
The name is back in circulation today. Gio Italia bought the brand out of that sale, and John Garg of Jennifer OPCO acquired the U.S. trading rights and reintroduced Klaussner upholstery at retail in late 2024. That matters for anyone shopping: a product sold under the Klaussner name today is not coming off the same frames, in the same fabrics, from the same Asheboro plants. The pre-2023 models covered below are genuinely discontinued.
Why the Klaussner sleeper program was unusual
Most upholstery manufacturers treat sleepers as a small side program: a handful of frames, one mattress, take it or leave it. Klaussner did the opposite. Our catalog carried 184 distinct Klaussner sleeper configurations. Almost every significant seating collection had a sleeper sibling, usually a sofa, a sectional, and often a chair-width version.
Three things set the program apart, and they are the things owners still notice:
- The mechanism. Klaussner used a recessed shoulder tube specifically to address the bar-across-the-back complaint that defines cheap sofa beds, plus a one-piece locking leg and a double-lock headrest. It is a better-than-average mechanism and it is a large part of why these frames are worth keeping.
- Made-to-order upholstery. These were not stocked SKUs. Buyers picked from hundreds of fabrics and leathers, which is why two Ashburn sectionals can look nothing alike.
- Chair-sized sleepers. Gillis, Mayhew, Jacobs, Zuma, Brighton, Berger and others were sold as twin, full, or queen sleepers in a chair-width frame. Very few manufacturers offered that, and it is the single hardest Klaussner product to replace today.
The mattress grades, and what buyers actually chose
Klaussner sleepers shipped with a choice of three mattresses. If you own one and are not sure which you have, this is how they differ:
- Dreamquest innerspring. The included grade. Roughly 6.25 inches thick, 299 coils of 13.5 gauge high carbon steel, quilted top.
- Enso memory foam. About 4.25 to 5 inches, with a layer of PureGel memory foam over a poly support base. No coils, so nothing to feel through the deck, and it folds into the cavity without fighting the mechanism.
- Air Dream by Leggett and Platt. Eleven inches, coil support under an inflatable air chamber, adjustable firmness, inflates in under a minute. The closest one of these gets to a real bed.
Across 159 recorded mattress selections on Klaussner sleeper orders, the split was lopsided:
- Enso memory foam: 109 selections, about 69 percent
- Dreamquest innerspring: 38 selections, about 24 percent
- Air Dream: 12 selections, about 7 percent
Roughly seven in ten buyers paid to upgrade off the included innerspring, and almost all of them chose foam rather than the top-tier air mattress. That is a useful signal for anyone shopping a sleeper now: the first upgrade off the base mattress captures most of the comfort gain, and the jump to an air-over-coil system is worth it mainly when the sofa is someone's primary bed.
The most popular Klaussner sleeper models
Of the 184 sleeper configurations we carried, 31 had recorded orders before the shutdown. The distribution was not close. One model took just over half of all Klaussner sleeper orders on its own.
1. Ashburn Queen Sleeper Sectional (K67400)
94 orders and 186 individual pieces, which is more than every other Klaussner sleeper combined. The Ashburn was a modular sleeper group rather than a fixed sectional, so buyers built their own arrangement around a queen sleeper seat instead of choosing between a left-facing and a right-facing chaise. Average piece price landed around 1,280 dollars. The leather version of the same group was the third most ordered sleeper we sold, at roughly 2,300 dollars a piece.
2. Daphne Reclining Sleeper Sectional
9 orders, 31 pieces, and the highest pieces-per-order figure of any Klaussner sleeper. Combining recline and a sleeper in one sectional is rare, and the people who bought it bought a lot of it.
3. Jenny Slipcover Queen Sleeper Sectional (16100)
9 orders. Rolled arms, down-blend cushions, and removable slipcovers, which on a piece that gets slept on is a real advantage. Around 2,050 dollars a piece.
4. Gillis Leather Chair Sleeper
8 orders. A leather chair that opens to a twin, full, or queen bed. The best example of the chair-sleeper category Klaussner owned, and the hardest to find an equivalent for now.
Rounding out the models with meaningful order history: Brighton twin, full or queen sleeper (6 orders), Loomis Queen Sleeper Sectional K29000 (5), Hybrid T-Cushion Sleeper Sectional (4), Fletcher Sleeper Sectional (4), Grayton K37420 sleeper sofa (4), Mayhew leather chair sleeper (4), Atlanta Queen Sleeper Sectional (3), Jacobs chair sleeper (3), Mayhew fabric chair sleeper (3), Troupe K51300 Sleeper Sectional (2), Bentley down-cushion sleeper sectional (2), and Jenny sleeper sectional (2).
Klaussner sleeper model numbers, for matching an old tag
If you are trying to identify a Klaussner sleeper you already own, the frame number is usually printed on a tag stapled under the deck or inside the mechanism cavity. These are the sleeper frame numbers that appeared in the catalog, paired with their collection names:
- Ashburn K67400, Loomis K29000, Greer K29200, Jenny 16100, Troupe K51300, Bosco K51600, Grayton K37420
- William K8122 and L8122 leather, Anna K8322, Samuel K8222, Dylan K10700, Blackburn K14310, Annalee K15500, Winn K53910, Julington K91800
- Jeffrey D69700 and D69100, Homestead D61100 and D61590, Folio D34300
- Cruize E92820, Heston E92400, Holly E76900, Drew E16, Lady 73870, Vaughn 74600
Other sleeper collections were sold under name only, without a frame number on the listing: Pantego, Clanton, Cliffside, Comfy, Lahoya, Jasper, Millner, Dopler, Berger, Ramona, Ellyson, Zuma, Joliet, Atlanta, Daphne, Fletcher, Bentley, Brighton, Gillis, Mayhew and Jacobs.
If you own one: mattresses, parts, and fabric
Mattress replacement is the easy one. Klaussner used standard sleeper mattress sizes, so a twin, full, or queen sleeper replacement from any aftermarket supplier will fit. Air Dream is made by Leggett and Platt and is still sold independently of Klaussner, so an Air Dream upgrade is still available even though Klaussner is not. Measure your existing mattress rather than trusting the size printed on the original tag, since sleeper mattresses run shorter than standard mattresses of the same name.
Mechanism parts are harder. There is no Klaussner parts department to call. The practical path is a local upholstery repair shop rather than chasing Klaussner part numbers, because sleeper mechanisms are largely built to common industry patterns and a repair shop can usually source or fabricate a matching leg, spring, or cross wire.
Fabric is the dead end. Klaussner fabric names were internal to Klaussner, and the ones buyers chose most often on sleepers, Marek River, Tina Airforce, Leader Stonewash, Elle Charcoal, Fiasco Fog, Dame Stonewash and Peerkins Mineral among them, cannot be reordered from anyone. If a cushion needs recovering, plan on reupholstering in a current fabric or covering the piece with a slipcover.
One thing worth saying plainly: the original Klaussner warranty is not enforceable. The lifetime frame and spring coverage came from a company that no longer exists, and the entity now selling under the Klaussner name did not assume those obligations.
What to look for if you are replacing one
If you liked your Klaussner sleeper, you can usually name why, and that gives you something concrete to shop against. The Ashburn sold the way it did because of modularity: a queen sleeper seat inside a group you could arrange yourself, rather than a fixed sectional with the mechanism on a side you might not want. Look for manufacturers still selling modular sleeper groups rather than one-piece sleeper sectionals.
Beyond that, the specifications that made these frames good are the ones to check on anything you consider: a kiln-dried hardwood frame, a welded steel mechanism with a recessed bar, a mattress upgrade path that includes at least a foam grade, and made-to-order fabric so you are not choosing from four stocked colors. Open and close the mechanism yourself before you buy. A sleeper that binds in the showroom will not improve at home, and that was true of the Klaussner frames too.
Klaussner is a reminder that a furniture brand can disappear in a week. Buy the frame, the mechanism, and the retailer, not the warranty.