The internet is awash with furniture superstores and smaller independent retailers selling their wares, but rarely are their target audience people who live in bedsits, large rooms or small flats. Luxury three seat sofas and table and chair sets are generally unsuitable for the smaller dwelling where one reasonably sized piece of furniture can dominate a room and create a cramped, uncomfortable atmosphere. Although appropriately priced, the majority of living room furniture available is unsuitable for a bedsit.
When living in a small space it is important to place essential items as economically as possible. Before you even consider adding more furniture to a small bedsit or apartment you should remove any items that are redundant, and then start being creative with your space. There are a variety of ways to do this and suggestions below are commonly employed and effective methods:
- Store vertically. If you had the right cabinet, could you store your CD player/Amplifier, DVD/Cable players and your television in one stack?
- Sofa Beds. Probably the most obvious and easy way to create space quickly in a bedsit. There are numerous examples of poorly made ones though. If it is not really comfortable as a sofa and a bed then don’t buy it. Some makes of sofa bed are neither. The ease of switching from bed to sofa and vice versa is also very important. A healthy sleeping routine does not begin with being incensed and angry each night as you try to operate something that more closely resembles a Rubik’s cube each passing day.
- Make things more useful. Do you have storage boxes and nowhere to put them? Try using them as, say, a coffee table. With the simple addition of some attractive fabric an ugly box which looked out of place can be transformed into a useful surface.
- Break from the traditional. The wardrobe has my clothes in and it goes near my bed, that’s where wardrobes go, end of story. In some bedsits the bathroom is out of proportion with the rest of the property. A shorter than standard wardrobe may fit comfortably on a bathroom worktop. Or you may be able to fashion a perfectly workable solution in the boiler cupboard, if you have one, without a wardrobe at all. I add this only because I have done it myself in the past and it worked out fine.
- Storage beds. My personal preference over the sofa bed just because of the sheer amount of things you can store in and under them. Also, you are investing in a proper bed and good sleep is something you shouldn’t really put a price on.
- Bean Bags and Cushions. If a sofa really won’t fit, and even a armchair is going to dominate the room too much then an assortment of bean bags and cushions are a good option. Comfy and easy to move around if needed. Many ground floor bedsits are poorly insulated and can get a lot of cold coming through the ground though, so think how that may affect you over time if considering floor furniture.
Obviously, some of the ideas here will be more useful in some situations than others but the main point is to free up some space. Generally, people who live in bedsits are not planning to live in them indefinitely, so extravagant furniture purchases are unjustified. While they are though, it pays to use every trick in the book to make it home.
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