Spruce up Your Living Room with Bean Bags, the Fun Furniture

We live in a world, especially in the UK with our American influenced culture, where most aspects of living are becoming ever more casual and relaxed. This is especially true of clothing, of course, but it is also the case for less obvious product types like tableware. How many people now routinely choose to drink from a mug, rather than a cup and saucer. Against this backdrop of cultural change, furniture seems to stand as a bastion of rigidity and tradition. Think about it, when was the last time that you walked into an out of town furniture retailer and saw a big display of bean bags, that achetypal casual product?

It is quite possible that, like traditional furniture retailers, you think of bean bags as a retro product that had a brief moment in the sun during the 1970s. If so, a brief time spent looking at online beanbag retailers would probably convince you otherwise. There has been a tremendous growth in online bean bag sales in recent years, led by specialists such as BeanBagBazaar. This has resulted in a choice of products at least as wide as those from traditional furniture retailers.

The reason for this steady resurgence in beanbag sales seems to be that it is a product that people find it easy to live with. For a start, bean bags are really easy to move around a room or from room to room and they are a relatively cheap way of increasing the amount of seating you have at home. But there is more to it than that. The way that bean bags can be reshaped, thrown around and rolled over makes them a uniquely fun piece of furniture. In addition, a lot of contemporary bean bags are suitable for use in the garden as well as indoors, which just emphasises their credentials as a multi use seating product.

In fact, some bean bags are not really seating products at all these days. You can now buy bean filled footstools and giant beanbags that are big enough to have a snooze on. These newer products are proving very popular according to the manufacturers because existing bean bag owners like the comfort of bean filled products. I also suspect that, once you have become used to lounging around on bean bags, you probably are not too bothered about buying more traditional furniture.

My overriding impression of the bean bags market is of suppliers that are enjoying making essentially fun products for consumers that appreciate them and keep coming back for more. I would certainly prefer to design bean bags than chairs.