Design for small spaces: A Trendy cabinet that turns into stools

For apartment dwellers worldwide, finding space to do practically anything can be a challenge, particularly for seemingly superfluous needs like entertaining.

Most of us don’t have seating space for more than ourselves, let alone our friends.

Eindhoven grad Rianne Koens has come up with a pretty ingenious solution to this problem, and it’s good-looking too.

The design is simple: it’s a wooden cabinet that converts into sturdy stools and side tables.

The mismatched drawers of this multifunctional cabinet are stacked, each with foldable legs, so when unstacked, they can serve as stools and coffee tables to make it easier to accommodate guests.

The design, called Oturakast, was inspired by the hospitality of the designer’s Turkish in-laws (otur means “to sit” in Turkish) as well as by Dutch design (kast is “cabinet” in Dutch).

According to Koens, the design is an “elegant replacement for the stackable stools in western households.”

This cabinet is not only a space-saver for those of us who have the common storage and space issues of apartment living, but it’s also considered and stylish.