An ottoman is the most flexible seat in the building: footstool today, spare chair when the meeting overflows, coffee perch, and occasionally a small table with a tray on it. This corner of our soft seating range is home to the Phoebe footstool, an upholstered piece sized to slide beside an armchair or stand on its own in a breakout corner.
Where an ottoman works
Breakout spaces are the natural habitat. A couple of footstools loosen up a formal arrangement of sofas and armchairs, give visitors somewhere to land without dragging chairs about, and raise the seating count of a small room without filling it with backs and arms. The Phoebe earns its keep in reception too, where it reads as furniture rather than office kit, and in quiet corners where someone wants to put their feet up for ten minutes without anyone judging.
Upholstery choice does the heavy lifting. Pick a fabric that ties the ottoman to the seating around it, either matching your sofas or deliberately contrasting as an accent, and remember that a footstool lives a harder life than a chair seat: feet, laptops and lunch all end up on it, and darker, textured fabrics forgive all three. If you are building a whole informal area, modular seating plus a few footstools rearranges endlessly, which is exactly what breakout furniture should do.
Pieces that sit alongside
Footstools rarely travel alone. A low table from coffee and occasional tables anchors the group, reception soft seating covers the front of house version of the same idea, and the breakout and canteen ranges furnish the rest of the room around them.
Ottomans and footstools in Belfast and across Northern Ireland
Office Interior Solutions is based in Belfast and furnishes offices, receptions and breakout spaces across Northern Ireland, from Lisburn and Newtownabbey out to Antrim, Bangor, Newry and Derry. Delivery is by us, placement is part of the service, and the wrapping leaves when we do.
Soft seating is easiest to choose with fabric in hand, so ask us for swatches before you settle on a colour. Ring +44 (0)2890 770019 or drop us a note describing the space you are furnishing and we will help pull the corner together, footstool included.