Footstool

A footstool does more work than its size suggests. It keeps the things you actually use within reach — remotes, magazines, a book you are halfway through, the odd ornament — in much the same way a coffee table would, but with soft upholstered edges instead of hard corners. At the end of a long day it is somewhere to put your feet up; when more people arrive than you have chairs for, it becomes another seat.

Being small and compact, it suits flexible living: a narrow sitting room, a bay window, the end of a bed, a corner that needs filling without being crowded. Each one is upholstered to order from our range of style options, so it can be matched to a sofa, a bed frame or the rest of a bedroom rather than sitting slightly apart from everything else.

• Compact and light enough to move around the room
• Doubles as a footrest and as occasional seating
• Upholstered to order rather than pulled from stock
• Straightforward to match to an existing sofa or bed