subject: Bean Bags - Gaining Popularity like Never Before [print this page] Bean Bags - Gaining Popularity like Never Before
In the past few years, the popularity of bean bags has rapidly increased with a large number of people has started using beanbags all over the world. These bean bags have replaced the age old wooden chairs and equally popular among old aged people and young. They become available in different styles, designs, and heights with the traditional shapes being pear shaped, teardrop, and round slack style.
The popularity of bean bags has reached to a prime level and recognized by different names like food sacs, physics bag, love sac, and oversized sac. The use of beanbags started in the late 60s and early 70s. Eventually they toll the shape of a pear with an attached headrest made out of leather. Because of its increasing demand, leather was replaced with vinyl with plastic or thermocol pellet fillings. This pseudo-couch can be found anywhere especially in cafes, bookstores, malls and homes.
The flexible property of bean bag inherits from the fillings of thermocol/plastic pellets. Its life ranges from a year to a year and a half depending on the usage as after some duration its flexibility becomes weaken. Another advantage is that you can refill it with pellets and can continue its use for few more years. With the introduction to advanced technologies, the bean bag manufacturers have incorporated new features such as washable bean bags which enhances the flexibility, plastic pellets have been replaced with urethane foam to increase its durability and support, mixture of textures like vinyl, outdura, faux, printed themes, and collegiate to the existing leather material.
People prefer these beanbags not just because of quality but enhanced comfort as well. People can comfortably set in relaxed positions using bean bags. Another major reason behind its popularity is the simplicity to which kids can carry it out. Many therapists believe that bean bag is of huge help for children with sensory integration issues and for those suffering from lumbar surgery.These bean bags have replaced the age old wooden chairs and equally popular among old aged people and young. They become available in different styles, designs, and heights with the traditional shapes being pear shaped, teardrop, and round slack style.
