Fabric storage cubes may be something entirely new and different for you, especially if you're new to furnishing your house with storage cubes furniture. Obviously, the most likely use for fabric cubes is in kids' bedrooms and nurseries, where you can enjoy various toy and plush animal motifs and other cute patterns for babies -- as well as the soft edges and padded covering for baby's safety.
Colorful, Artistic Storage Cube Fun!
Fabric storage cubes routinely offer bright colors, ranging from green to red to purple to a bright pink. In addition to bright colors and color patterns, fabric cubes often come painted with scenes from fairy tales and nursery rhymes for use in kids' rooms and nurseries. Some come with suggestions you can use to decorate them. With a bit of "crafty-ness" on your part, you can decorate your own fabric cubes with colors and fabrics of your choice.
very often in nurseries and kids' bedrooms, fabric storage cubes come decorated with cute patterns for babies, camouflage coverings to appeal to youngsters -- and even in imitation silks and furs to decorate adult bedrooms. Fabric storage cubes, too, are often collapsible. That offers something of the ultimate in storage convenience -- storage cubes that can be stored in other storage media when not in use! From designer fabric to circus animals and clowns, fabric storage cubes may add just what you need to your home decor.
A company called Closetmaid offers some really cute "fabric drawers" which are actually fabric storage cubes that look like a smiling monkey, smiling hippo, and smiling lion. They're called "Circo" and you can find them at Amazon.com and other online retailers for around $10-$15. They would be a treat for any kid's room or nursery. (They're more than a little fun for adults, too, with a hobby room or sewing area that needs bright, decorative storage solutions!) These cubes are easily cleaned with a damp cloth -- although the plastic frame and fabric side combination makes them flexible and less sturdy than wood storage cubes or plastic storage cubes. They might be stackable, but be cautious. (They also have a 10 pound weight limit for storage.)
Fabric Cubes Work as Portable Storage
Looking for storage you can carry over the shoulder when you take off for the gym or on a short weekend trip? You could use a duffel bag, gym bag, even carry-on luggage -- or you could take a look at some of the really nice fabric cubes with soft sides, padding, and shoulder straps. A company named Mountainsmith offers a wide range of such cubes, starting with their Mountainsmith Basic Cube up through their very snazzy Mountainsmith Bike Cube. The Basic Cube ranges in size from lunch pails to gym bags. They sell for $15 and up on Amazon.com or other online stores. The Mountainsmith Bike Cube comes in a wide variety of colors, from basic black to tiger striped and colorful red swirls. These beauties are big enough to hold your, well, bike gear -- shoes, water bottle, helmet, biking apparel, etc. -- and come with various useful compartments and interior padding. The Mountainsmith Bike Cube is priced from $35-$70 at Amazon.com and other online stores.
Fabric Storage Cubes Are Collapsible for Storing
Think about this as the ultimate in storage cubes furniture: If you aren't using your fabric cube -- whether it's a portable, shoulder strap bag like the basic cube or bike cube or a closet drawer -- you can collapse it (some of them even fold conveniently) and store it away in a closet or on a shelf. And, much like stacking dolls within dolls, fabric storage cubes are flexible enough that, if you've bought several and sized them properly, you can store one inside the other and squash the whole lot of them down to shove under a spare bed!
Don't be fooled into thinking "fabric" means "flimsy." Depending on the weight of the material and quality of the material used to make them, fabric cubes will give you years of durable, collapsible service in a variety of uses, from shoulder bags to kids' toy storage or laundry bags. Shop around and enjoy the fun of fabric storage cubes!