Sofa having powered ottoman

A furniture member comprising:

• a base frame;
• a seat bottom attached to the base frame and defining a seating surface;
• an ottoman assembly including a drive assembly that moves an ottoman platform relative to the seat bottom and the base frame among a retracted position, an extended position and a raised position, the ottoman platform including a support surface that faces upward and away from a ground surface in the retracted, extended and raised positions,
• wherein the ottoman platform is disposed beneath the seating surface in the retracted position and moves linearly in a horizontal direction from the retracted position to the extended position, and wherein the ottoman platform moves linearly in a vertically upward direction from the extended position to the raised position;
• wherein the furniture member further comprises:
• a shroud panel attached to the ottoman platform and movable with the ottoman platform between a folded condition and an unfurled condition as the ottoman platform moves vertically between the extended position and the raised position, wherein the shroud panel shields the drive assembly from a user's view when the ottoman platform is in the raised position;
• and
• an elongated elastic strip fixed at one end to the shroud panel and fixed at the other end to the upward-facing support surface of the ottoman platform, wherein movement of the ottoman platform toward the raised position resiliently stretches the elastic strip such that movement of the ottoman platform downward away from the raised position allows the elastic strip to pull a portion of the shroud panel underneath the ottoman platform.