Storage Benches With Drawers
Buy the best storage benches with drawers selected and recommended by interior designers. By Tara Gosselin.
Perfect for disguising unsightly mess, particularly if you have pets or children, a storage bench with drawers will add that much-needed final touch to your hallway, bedroom, or living room. Incredibly practical, the drawer aspect means you can organize all of those little bits and pieces easily, from blankets to most-used shoes, and we’ve curated a few of our favorites below for you.
Storage Benches With Drawers
Buying Guide
Tara Gosselin
Interior Design Expert
Tara is a San Antonio-based award-winning landscape architect, writer and educator, passionate about eco-friendly solutions and growing her own food. She knows all it takes to help you create a sustainable backyard retreat that combines blissful charm with a modern take on landscaping.
Storage benches are a great way to maximise the space that you have in your home. The inclusion of drawers means that you have even more places to store your items. As well as helping you to save space, they have other practical uses to. You can use storage benches as a seating area, a shelving area or even a footstool. Let's consider some of the designs which are available to purchase.
There are a lot of ways to incorporate a storage bench in your home. Storage benches come in a variety of types, styles, and designs, such as:
Fitted storage bench
While there are many stand alone storage benches which don't need to be affixed to any part of your home, a fitted storage bench with drawers could work in one of the rooms. The most common place to find this type of storage bench is in the bedroom. It can neatly fit into a corner or along an entire side of a wall. This will only take up around one foot of width in the bedroom, but will create lots of space for storing bedding, clothing and toys for your little ones.
Storage benches for the foot of bed
A great way to save space in smaller bedrooms is to have a storage bench which can only give a base to a bed. This is a common design which is often used in children's bedrooms. The unit is typically around six feet in length and three feet in width, and has drawers all along the bottom for storage purposes. At either end of the bed, there may be a chest of drawers or small cupboard to maximize the space further. Your child can then enjoy the rest of the room for other things, rather than furniture being the primary theme. For the youngest children, you may also see bed guards or other protective measures. These can be removed or attached as you wish.
Sofa storage bench
Nobody will ever notice that your storage bench is actually doubling up as a sofa. It might not work so well in the main living room, but if you have a secondary living room, study, dining room or spare bedroom, this style may fit in nicely. The top of the storage bench has a padded cushion, and is normally wider than most storage benches to allow comfort while sitting down. The length of the bench is likely to be smaller, however, to make it more usable for the majority of homes. Large cushions and blankets can be thrown over the bench to create a cozy feel and some extra comfort, and it's a good idea to consider positioning the bench against a wall for a backrest.
Rattan style storage bench
While most of the storage benches that you come across are made from wood with chrome or copper finishings, the rattan style of storage bench gives a slightly different effect. While the main frame is manufactured with oak or hardwood, the drawers are rattan and can easily be removed if necessary. As well as making this a practical item which looks slightly different from the usual storage benches, it also means that you can create a large amount of empty space by removing the rattan drawers.