SMÅSTAD bench with storage to make a banquette

We used three of these to make a banquette (it was cheaper than buying wood, actually). You can sit on them and store a lot of stuff inside. You can also frame them with wood if there's room in the budget and/or make or buy cushions or even a back panel. They're basically a nice, inexpensive armature that holds a lot of stuff while doing double duty as a seat.