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Everyone Loves Good Beans Bag Chairs!

The bean bag chairs craze is one for the ages. This trendy piece of furniture first appeared in the sixties. The craze continued into the seventies, before making a come back in the nineties, when companies upped the price on materials due to using more comfortable filling.

These versatile pieces of furniture have found favoritism in homes with small children, and in college dormitories. They are also found in in households prone to frequent large gatherings as they are easy to move around and store.

A trend for comfort developed because of these chairs. Accessories like pillows and seating are now made with a similar type of stuffing that used in bean bag chairs. Sometimes they are called bean bag extensions. Even the family pet can own their very own bean bag chair bed to sleep in. Some people even attribute the popularity of Beanie Babies to these bean bags chairs because they offer a level of comfort to the collector.

Bean bag chairs used to be constructed with plastic pellets for filling. The outer layer is made from simple fabric that came in different colors While the outer shell is still the same, most chairs now include the more high end polyurethane shreds or micro bead stuffing. This make them a luxury item for most families. However, cheaper ones can be found in your average family stores.

Production of the chairs is very simple. The polystyrene bead is usually in the form of sugar, which is then steam blown to expand it. Then it is stuffed into the fabric that is the bag. This material is also known as expanded polystyrene or EPS.

Beads that fill the bags vary in size. The type of material being used determines the size. A standard bead is three to nine millimeters. Micro-beads, a more popular filler, is measured about to one to three millimeters in diameter. This material is used for more comfort.

Bean bags, like many things that are stuffed, eventually do wear out, and get compressed. When that happens, one can usually find small refills to restore their bags to their original format. The bags of stuffing beads are fairly inexpensive, and will keep precious furniture in tact for years to come.

Many enthusiasts of the beans bag chairs have their own names for it. Atomic sac, beanie bag, and Physics bag and Oversized sac to name a few. Bean bags chairs are really making the come back as a comfortable alternative to video gaming chairs, and even cats an dogs can now have the bean bags chairs treatment. This could be the start of a whole new bean bag epidemic.

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