How To Maximise Space With A Divan Bed

Divan beds look fantastic, there’s plenty of stylish designs and fabric finishes to choose from and when combined with a comfortable mattress that suits your sleeping style, they provide you with a restful night’s sleep too. Not only do they offer all that, but they also offer you the opportunity to maximise the space available to you in your bedroom. How exactly do they do that? Let’s take a look shall we?

What Is A Divan Bed?

First of all, to understand how a divan bed can help you to maximise your space, you need to understand just exactly what a divan bed is and how their construction creates the ability to make space. 

Divan beds are similar to nearly every other bed frame on the market in the sense they have a platform for your mattress to lay on, feature a headboard of some kind and are situated on legs. However what mostly sets them apart from other beds is their ‘box’ design and lack of bed slats for your mattress to lay on.

The bed base itself is a ‘box’ made with high quality sturdy wood and other materials and finished off with an upholstered fabric of your choice. These fabrics can range from linen, tweed and chenille to various types of velvet such as crushed and plush velvet. 

The legs on a divan bed are often very small and not very noticeable compared to a wooden or metal bed frame and this can give a divan bed the appearance that it’s sat directly on the floor. As such, divan beds are generally lower than other types of beds, something to consider, especially if you have any difficulties with sitting down on lower furniture or getting in and out of bed currently. 

But what about storage space I hear you ask?

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How Does A Divan Bed Maximise Space?

Divan beds have another impressive feature that sets them apart from other beds on the market and that’s their ability to maximise the space within your home. 

Integrated Storage Space

The ‘box’ design of a divan bed provides you with the ability to include storage drawers within the base itself. These integrated drawers provide you with the valuable storage space needed to help you maximise the space in your bedroom. 

You can generally choose to have up to 4 drawers in your divan bed base, but it’s important to note that the number of drawers you can have is determined by the size of bed you choose. A single bed for example wouldn’t be big enough to accommodate that many drawers, so the bigger the bed size, the more storage space that’s potentially available.

Compact Bed Design

But it’s not just the integrated storage space within a divan bed that can help to maximise the space within your bedroom, but also the size and footprint of the bed itself too. Divan beds are designed to be essentially only as wide as the mattress you’ll be placing on top of it.

As such, they aren’t as ‘bulky’ as other bed frames on the market, saving you space either side and at the end of the bed too, making more room to walk in your bedroom and potentially even the additional space you needed to fit in that piece of furniture you had your eye on. 

Plus, if you only have drawers on one side of your divan bed, you could even position the bed against a wall, potentially saving you more space within your bedroom. 

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Reduce The Number Of Furniture Items Needed

On the flip side, the integrated storage space within your divan bed could even provide you with the opportunity to get rid of some items of furniture, which in turn creates more space in your bedroom. 

For example, by using the drawers to store the items you may currently be putting in your bedside drawers or potentially in an ottoman at the end of your bed, you remove the need for those pieces of furniture, freeing up more space in your bedroom. This means you can opt for a more minimalist approach or even replace them with other pieces of furniture such as a dressing table. 

How To Use The Storage Space In A Divan Bed?

The storage space within a divan bed is pretty versatile and is suitable for storing a wide range of items. Here’s our tips for what to store in your divan bed and also how to store it so you can make the most of the available space. 

Use Drawer Organisers

Drawer organisers are a real game changer and if you aren’t already using them in the drawers elsewhere in your home, now’s the time to look to invest. There are a variety of types of drawer organisers available but essentially they divide up your space so you can neatly store your items. This makes it really easy to see where each of your specific belongings are and quickly grab them when you need to.

But also, by neatly storing your items, you’re making the most of the space available to you too. Drawer organisers come in a number of configurations and it’s almost like a game of Jenga to slot them all together into your drawer in the best way to maximise the space. They’re mostly available in fabric or plastic options, so you can choose which material suits your preferences the most. 

Roll Clothes & Towels

Divan beds are the perfect place to store clothing items and towels with the drawers making it really easy to access them at a moment’s notice. A great tip to make the most of your drawer space when it comes to clothes and towels (this applies to all your drawers around the home) is to roll them up before storing them away. 

Not only does this tip help you to save space, but it can also help to reduce wrinkles too! Rolled clothes and towels can more neatly fit into any drawer organisers you may be looking to take advantage of too. Rolling your clothes is a great technique to take advantage of when you’re going on your travels too, allowing you to fit much more in your suitcase!

Store Shoes & Accessories

Divan bed drawers are the perfect size to store your shoes and/or various accessories too. By storing your shoes under your bed, you could even make space in your hallway, with no need for any furniture you may be using currently to store your shoes. 

By utilising the aforementioned drawer dividers too, your divan bed could be the perfect place to store various accessories such as jewellery, hair bobbles, make-up and perfumes. The dividers will help to stop bottles rolling around and allow you to neatly organise all the accessories so you know exactly where everything is. 

Prioritise Accessibility

When organising the storage space within your divan bed, it’s important to prioritise the accessibility to items you’ll use more often. So whether you’re using drawer dividers or just freely storing everything within your drawer, position your most used items further towards the front. 

When it comes to taking advantage of drawer organisers, it’s very important to stick to using them correctly and putting everything back in its place too, allowing you to quickly know where everything is when you need it. 

Create More Space With A Divan Bed

Divan beds offer plenty of ways to help you to maximise the space available to you within your bedroom. From their reduced footprint through to the integrated drawers that provide plenty of storage space. They’re a fantastic option if you’re on the lookout for a new bed and also want to de-clutter your bedroom space for a better night’s sleep. 

Here at Next Divan we have a wide range of divan beds to choose from, with all the UK bed sizes you know available and a variety of beautiful headboards and luxurious fabric finishes to explore. So if you have any questions regarding our collection of divan beds or would like to know more about the benefits of a divan bed, please feel free to get in touch with our expert team.