Open Storage Divan Bed Base with Platform Top and Chrome Glides

The Open Storage Bed solves a specific problem: where do guests, students and tenants put a suitcase in a small room. Instead of drawers, this divan base has open apertures underneath, sized for the bulky items that never fit in a drawer.

The base stands 33cm high and sits on chrome glides, with a platform top that gives a mattress solid, even support across its full area. That flat foundation suits sprung and foam mattresses alike, and there are no slats to work loose over time.

What makes it practical rather than just spacious is the covers. Each storage opening has a fabric drop-down cover finished in the same fabric as the base, so the storage stays hidden and the bed still looks like a normal divan from across the room. Guests get access when they want it, and the room does not look like a storage cupboard.

That combination has made this style popular in student accommodation, where residents arrive with more than a wardrobe can hold, and in guest houses and short lets where luggage would otherwise sit on the floor. It also works well in home guest rooms that double as storage space.

Because there are no drawer runners or lifting mechanisms, there is very little to go wrong and nothing to service. For anyone managing a building full of beds, that is a genuine advantage over drawer or gas lift alternatives.

Ox Beds manufactures in Yorkshire and supplies single beds as well as large-volume orders for accommodation providers. The base can be ordered on its own, and headboards are available separately from the Ox Beds range if you want a matching finish.

If storage is the reason you are replacing a base, this is the most direct way to get it.