Remember when beanbag chairs were all the rage back in-well, I guess it would be the late 1970's or early 1980's? They were so cool and everyone had to have one. My baby sister had a candy apple red beanbag chair we all loved. We used to sneak into her chair to read a good book and hope she wouldn't catch us and get mad. It warmed up with your body temperature and the simple addition of a blanket or quilt made bean bag furniture a toasty, cozy place to relax and watch television or talk on the phone, too.
That beloved beanbag chair got passed down through the ranks and became a fixture in my son's bedroom about 20 years ago-until he unzipped it and unloaded all the "beans" from it as a toddler. In reality it was a bit of a Styrofoam pebble mess. I was scooping the stuff up with a dustpan and it was sticking to me everywhere. That's a memory to recall! And so that red beanbag chair came to meet its demise. But it lasted ten years or more-and it would probably still be here today if I could have figured out how to get all that "stuff" back inside. Today's bean bag furniture does not have that problem.
Now bean bag furniture is back in style and popular again, and it's popping up everywhere! Like all good things, great trends come around so a new generation can embrace and enjoy the fun. These days my 17-year-old daughter has a royal blue beanbag chair-and a beanbag chair that looks like a soccer ball-in her room.
Bean bag furniture is great for teenagers and kids. It's remarkably versatile, is easy to move and relocate, changes shape easily to accommodate users of all different sizes and shapes, and fits into their décor with ease. Casual, comfortable, and cool-beanbag chairs are great. They also make great additions to a dorm room at college and provide lots of impromptu seating for movie nights at home, groups of kids in a rec room battling it out on the PlayStation, and other casual get togethers. Bean bag furniture is easy to store-just stack ‘em up in a closet and pull them out when you need them-and they even double as a bed for kids having sleepovers.
As a parent, I also appreciate the affordability of bean bag furniture and the fact that the beanbag chair at our house are easy to clean up with just a damp rag. I wish all of the furniture in my house was so easy to clean! Little children love them, too, and since they are clean up in a snap, I don't get all bent out of shape when toddlers with sticky little fingers want to snuggle into one to watch a Disney movie or Dora the Explorer while eating a snack.
I love the new size options in bean bag furniture, too! The sofa size lounge chairs are great for friends to share and for sleeping on-and go from 6 feet up to an incredible 8 feet long. And the new beanbag chairs come in several different sizes-3 foot, 5 foot, and 6 foot sizes.
I also really love the new array of colors bean bag furniture comes in. There are modern new colors to fit every modern décor-not just solid primary colors like in years past. Today you can choose from hues like chocolate, mocha, kiwi, lime, pumpkin, indigo, sky, purple, wine, mustard, and more, in addition to staples like solid black or charcoal gray and khaki. Many of those sound good enough to eat. You can opt to mix and match pieces to create an exciting eclectic look or coordinate the bean bag furniture all to match in one room.
Bean bag furniture is trendy and cool and perfect for anyone starting out on a limited budget-like young adults who just graduated from college and are looking to furnish their first apartments. They're also ideal for Christian youth group recreation rooms and other gathering places where pre-teens and teenagers hang out, preschools and kindergarten classrooms for reading time, and they also make a great addition to libraries-school or public-to make the kids feel right at home and make them want to stay a while and grab a good book. Bean bag furniture is great for fraternities and sororities may want to invest in these for their frat houses, and they'd even work great in waiting rooms where children and teens are frequent patients-like family or pediatric offices, orthodontist offices, and more.
Yep, bean bag furniture is back! But they're back with a whole new trendy twist on style and functionality for the 21st century!
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