home improvement ideas

A student room is one of the most difficult places to furnish well. It’s got to combine the ability to be a good living space (and, of course, sleeping space) with the propensity to encourage proper study. And, almost always, it’s pretty small. As the first term of a new year approaches, and everyone starts looking around at student bedroom furniture, though, a welcome new range of items is coming to light. Properly designed, well made furnishings that have been built specifically to answer all of these needs.
Companies like Triangle Interiors, who originally made a name for themselves with their excellent ranges of office and nursing home furniture (both, again, furnishings with a very specific set of requirements) have realised that there is huge gap in the market for student furnishings, and have stepped in with some superb solutions. The student bedroom furniture they are producing answers all the unavoidable (and previously ignored) needs of a student room: compact, strong, versatile and cheap. “Cheap” in a monetary sense, mind, not in terms of quality: what Triangle and co have realised is that costs can be shaved dramatically without reducing the usability and good sense of their kit. It’s simply a matter of finding the right materials and producing the correct quantity of each item.

A poorly furnished student room isn’t just an unpleasant place to try and live – it’s also actively bad for a person’s studies. Given that the whole point of going to university or college is to attain a qualification, student bedroom furniture really needs to be built in a manner that makes studying easier. Fun, too – the idea is that studying is something one wants to do, if one has the right furniture to do it on. We’re talking modularity here – wardrobes that can be attached to book cases or desks; desks that incorporate drawers not just for papers and books but also for clothes; beds with storage space; desks designed to hold lap tops and printers. The idea behind all this furniture is that a small space, furnished right, doesn’t have to be cramped. A cramped space breeds a cramped mind: the new style of student bedroom furniture rather neatly turns all those awkward little cubby holes into neatly ordered cabins, where tidiness and studiousness go hand in hand.

It’s a bit like furnishing a ship’s cabin, when one thinks about it – or a caravan. These new student furnishings are models of ingenious storage, allowing even the smallest undergraduate room to be transferred into a light and spacious place to live and work. Relaxing is important for good study – the furniture coming up through the market now promotes proper relaxation by offering plenty of places to neatly store work when it isn’t being done. If there’s one thing, after all, that defuses a relaxing period, it’s the sight of piles of unfinished study lying all over the place. This new student bedroom furniture ensures that periods of rest and relaxation are not marred by the spectre of work yet to be done.
It’s about time someone brought out some really well design student furniture. Hats off to Triangle and their fellow furnishing companies for making the leap.