Blanket boxes are one of the must-have furniture items in homes all over the UK. They are a part of every household and their use is not just limited to storing blankets but over the years it has been allowed to use to store many other things and has become a need for storing different types of things.
The upholstered blanket boxes are also used as a nice seating option. The padded tops of these boxes, wrapped up with fine fabrics are just perfectly comfortable to sit on. The availability of upholstered grey blanket boxes in different sizes and shapes enables you to decide on a fitting spot to place them.
You don’t just have to put them at the end of the bed but they can be put anywhere in the room or any room of the house depending on how you want to use them.
Here we will discuss some of the different uses that this grey upholstered blanket box has to offer.
Store Blankets
Blanket boxes, just as the name suggests, were originally designed to store your linens. This is traditionally a box made to store the blankets, bedsheets and other bed-related clothing but over the years it has offered many different storage solutions.
The ideal place to place them is at the foot end of the bed where it is easy to access them even while sitting on the bed and take a blanket out of them in the cold nights.
The Placement
The placement of these boxes can also be experimented with. You can place them in different places in the house. Their placement is not just limited to the bedroom but any room that needs some storage place. They can be placed in the living room beside a wall, in the children room or even in the hallway to be used as a storage place for several different kinds of things.
Storing Toys
These boxes can be placed in the children room to provide them with a storage place for their toys. These boxes look lovely and provide an extra seating option as well. The children would love to have this lovely sitting place where they can put their toys in also, making their room look tidy. So these boxes can serve as a toy box in the children’s room.
In the Living Room
A house with the children knows exactly that the children like to run around all over the house and therefore they bring their toys in the living room to play so another good place for the upholstered blanket box should be in the living room. The upholstered design blends in nicely with the room décor, especially when you also have the freedom to choose the matching colours.
As a Coffee Table
In the living room, the large spaced ottoman style upholstered blanket box can also be used as a luxury coffee table with a storage place under the tabletop. Store your books, gaming CDs, toys or even your laptops in that storing space of these boxes. Put a coffee tray or use them as an extra sitting option, it can be used both ways.
Extra Sitting Option
Having some friends over and getting just a little short of the seating availability, guess what? Your blanket box can be a solution to the seating problem. These boxes are strongly built and can handle easily seating a person or two on them. The multi-functionality of these boxes serves many purposes; seating some extra guests is just one of them.
The Hallway
As we talked about before that these boxes can serve different purposes for storing different things in different places of the house. The last thing you do while leaving your house is to wear your shoes, so these boxes can be put in the hallway to store your shoes in, making it easier to find all your shoes in one place.
Placing these boxes in the hallway makes them be used as a big shoebox. Here these upholstered blanket boxes can be used to sit while wearing your shoes. Especially for the children, it is the best option to sit in a comfortable place while wearing their shoes.
At Ottoman Beds, we have a wide range of different styles of blanket boxes in different fabric options. They are designed at a proportionate height of sitting on them so you can use them for more purposes than just to store blankets in them.
We have Chesterfield design, Line design and Cube design, all of which are available in different fabric and colour options. The upholstery is best suited for any kind of bed design in your bedroom or sofa in your living room. Their height is proportionate for sitting and for children to use them as toy boxes. Different shapes make them perfect to be placed in any part of your house.
