Living Room BasketsStorage Baskets For Living Room Decorating

A living room basket, the way the families weave it, is a piece of furniture that happens to be a basket: rattan reed woven over a solid hardwood bottom, a hardwood rim, leather handles riveted through the weave, and on the floor pieces a pair of wooden runner feet that lift the basket off the rug and keep it square. Every one is signed on the bottom by the weaver who made it, and each carries our lifetime guarantee.

The blanket baskets are the Throw Blanket Basket (22 x 17 x 14 inches) for a few throws beside the couch, and the Extra-Large Blanket Basket (27 x 18 x 16 inches, nearly 4 cubic feet) for the whole pile; both take an optional lift-off wood lid and a hand-sewn liner. For the reading, the Slim Magazine Basket (15 x 8 x 14 1/2, on legs). The furniture pieces are the Chairside Crafting Hub (17 x 13 x 24), two baskets in a wooden frame with solid wood bottoms, so a mug sits on top and the knitting sits below; the Entryway Table with Storage (24 x 14 x 30), a console with a 3 inch deep basket on top for keys and mail and a 6 inch basket below; and the 3 Tiered Storage Basket (15 x 10 1/2 x 37 1/2), three 7 inch deep baskets on a post with a handle at the top. The trays are the Farmhouse Table Centerpiece (27 1/2 x 7 x 3 1/2) for the table and the Basket Tray for Coffee Table (17 x 12 x 2) with leather handles and a solid wood bottom; and the Decorative Wheelbarrow (24 x 8 x 9 1/4) is the one that rolls.

Blankets that live in a bedroom closet or a mudroom have their own sizes on the storage baskets page, and the hampers that stand in a room with a lid are on the hampers with lids page.

Which blanket basket

The Throw Blanket Basket is 22 x 17 inches at the rim and 14 inches deep: two or three throws and a pillow, beside the couch or at the foot of the bed. The Extra-Large Blanket Basket is 27 x 18 inches and 16 inches deep, nearly 4 cubic feet, and it holds the quilts, the winter blankets and the pillows in one place; it is the same basket we sell as the Large Toy Storage Basket with a toy-box lid. Both stand on wooden runner feet, so they sit up off the rug and slide rather than scrape. The sizes are the outside of the rim.

Lids and liners are optional, and they can come later

The blanket baskets and the magazine basket each take a lift-off solid wood lid made for them, and the blanket baskets take a hand-sewn cotton liner that keeps wool off the reed and lifts out for the wash. Each is sold on its basket's page and on the basket liners page, and each can be ordered any time after the basket arrives. The three-tier organizer takes a set of three liners.

The tables

The Chairside Crafting Hub was designed by an Amish family for the women in their community who sew and knit: two baskets in a hardwood frame, both with solid wood bottoms, so the top holds a mug and a book at chair-arm height and the bottom holds the project. It comes built; there is nothing to assemble. The Entryway Table with Storage does the same job by the door, with a shallow top basket for keys, mail and glasses and a deeper one below for scarves and gloves, 30 inches tall.

Care

Dust the weave, and a light spray of lemon oil about once a year feeds the reed. The solid wood bottoms take a set of protective feet where a floor needs them. Every piece ships free, gift-ready, with a letter about the family who wove it, and comes back no questions asked.