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Filing Cabinet Balconies

Sliding Gardens of Baby-lawns
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Look at a shallow profile filing cabinet, and pull out every other drawer, now scale it up in your imagination to the size of a building. Every apartment now has two floors, one of which is the extendable balcony.

In the summer, you crank out your balcony, and have an outdoor garden, in the winter you bring it in and have an indoor garden.

see link - depicting winter mode.

xenzag, Jul 22 2006

shallow drawer cabinets http://www.furnitur...557&productId=13518
winter position [xenzag, Jul 22 2006]

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       B-but, what happens to all your indoor stuff when you crank in the balcony? Maybe they could be simultaneously cranked out the other side of the building creating a (cold) outdoor room?
faffer, Jul 22 2006
  

       read it again [faffer] you have two floors - only one cranks in and out, so "indoor stuff " is unaffected.
xenzag, Jul 22 2006
  

       This is highly funky, I like it. Though if you crank the garden out intending to sunbathe, you'd better make sure you're living on the top floor.
fridge duck, Jul 22 2006
  

       "What Irishman gets cranked in every winter?"   

       "Paddy O'Furniture."
baconbrain, Jul 22 2006
  
      
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