apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I have wine boxes with hinged lids on the end of my bed. I use them to store all my office supplies and manuals for all my technology that I never actually refer back to.

I have a beat-up old bench that my grandfather built at prep school at the foot of my bed. In my college dorm, it was a coffee table. In my first two apartments, it was my entertainment center. Now it's my bed bench. I love it and will never part from it - it is just the best thing on earth.

And it's super-helpful to sit on something solid when you're putting stockings, on, too.

I have a friend who built his own storage bench for the foot of his bed to use as a laundry hamper. When you live in a studio and don't do laundry often, the small sizes offered in home stores end up overflowing with dirty laundry. A storage bench that goes the whole length of the foot of the bed is such a great alternative to the cumbersome hamper in the bathroom or closet.

i love everything about the first bedroom! except the price point. these items, lovely as they are, seem awfully pricey for veneer =/

I have considered a bench or chest at the foot of my bed, but I then remind myself that it will become a dumping ground for piles of clothes, etc. I am already struggling with keeping a chair in my room uncovered!