While you might think that a footstool is an item of furniture for putting your feet up on – and you would, of course, be right – it can have a lot more functions than that. At Footstools & More our footstools come in a huge range of shapes and sizes and can be covered in whatever material you wish. You are not just restricted to the materials that we stock, although we do have many, because you can also look at all the designer fabric manufacturers with whom we work, or if you prefer to buy and send us your own material, we will use that to make your footstool instead.
If you opt for a large ottoman footstool, you can also use it for storage. This is a very important function in a living room, because we all have lots of bits and pieces that we need to hand but at the same time want to keep out of sight so that it doesn’t become like a nursery school with stuff everywhere!
Things like your laptop, for instance can be kept in a large ottoman footstool. So, when you want to chat to everyone on Facebook, you just take it out of the ottoman, flip the top up, log on, and sit it down on top of the ottoman so that it becomes, to all intents and purposes, a small table. Or you can use it for WhatsApp, Facetime, Skype, or whatever.
You can also use your ottoman for storing kids’ toys, the TV remote, CDs, DVDs, knitting, dog biscuits, a few cans of Stella Artois and a couple of glasses, magazines, books - the list goes on.
It Doesn’t Stop There
But it doesn’t stop there. Buy a large serving tray (yes, we make those too: they come under the heading of “More”), set it on the ottoman, and you have the perfect coffee table. In fact, a large serving tray can also act as your dinner table, so you can eat while watching Corrie or EastEnders (or in our house, Last of the Summer Wine).
Do you like flowers around the home? We do, and so do many other people. Just place your flower vase on the serving tray and you have a perfect point of focus in the living room. In fact, it gives you plenty of space for a very large display if you want to go the whole hog.
And when you want to put your feet up again, just pop the serving tray into the ottoman. Job done.
