Keeping your living space clutter-free can be difficult at the best of times but add in children, pets and untidy partners and you could end up pulling more hair out than you’ve got. As an alternative to joining an athletics club and learning to hurdle in order to navigate your lounge, there are a number of good storage solution ideas on the market that don’t take up extra space or appear cumbersome in your living room.
Apart from the obvious additions of more shelving, bookcases and chests of drawers, when you think of the most useful feature of a living space then seating always comes to mind. Whether it’s needed for your guests, your brood or fighting your cat for the prime position in front of the TV, it seems we can never have enough spaces to sit. With this in mind, it is far more practical to utilise the features we want, along with the storage we need.
You could enjoy the self-satisfaction of getting innovative yourself by converting a humble toy box with the aid of some matching scatter cushions into a window seat or adapting a wooden storage box into a corner seat.Alternatively, there is no shame in looking to the inventive minds of the furniture professionals.
Being the focal point of every room, many sofas are now designed with storage in mind. There are pull-out drawers built within and low level cabinets wrapped around them, but probably the biggest storage provider and biggest space saver is the sofa bed. Sofa beds are the ingenious invention that affords a room a dual purpose, posing as living space during the daylight hours and bedroom come nightfall. Sofa beds are purpose built to have the mattress and frame stored within the structure of your settee. They work not dissimilar to the principle of a Transformer: a humble couch by day, then fold up the top, pull out the bottom, move a few cushions and voila! You have yourself a bed.
The sofa bed has come a long way from the flimsy camp bed style of the 1980s with those distinctive garish covers and bulky style that practically screamed the products intentions. What was previously not very comfortable as a sofa or a bed, they now provide a much more relaxing and stylish storage solution, whether to maximise your space in smaller domains such as studio flats or just as a place for overnight guests to stay. Custom-made sofa beds now come with advanced mechanisms, areas to store your extra linens and may even offer you a choice of mattress to enhance your sleep experience.
In addition to your sofa, its matching accessories can also provide some much needed solace for your floor space. Custom-made storage benches that double as seats can be acquired in the same fabrics and designs and could compliment your room as well as add to your available seating – which brings us to the trusty footstool. Along with allowing the sofa dweller to extend out their legs and stretch off a hard day, lidded footstools come in useful when there are a few of you sharing the sofa space. Not just an extra seat, they can also be used for storing magazines, newspapers or extra cushions.
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