Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Floor Space
Keep your kitchen with that open tidy look
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Most people will not see this storage unit at first glance unless they go down to the basement. The only thing any one will notice in the kitchen are the support beams and the ceiling motor for this wall sized retractable shelving unit.

In its resting position the top is flush with the kitchen floor and sturdy enough to walk on due to the fact that the shelves are built to rest on the basement floor. If the motor dies you only need to go into the basement for your pantry items.

sartep, Jun 02 2004

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PainOCommonSense, Jun 02 2004
   

       Sounds very doable, except for the heaviness of the shelf structure and add the cans, bags and boxes of foods and maybe appliances, thats a lot of weight. I would recommend beefing up the supports of the kitchen floor from underneath. I'd like one of these.
dentworth, Jun 02 2004
   

       Use your refrigerator as a counterweight. +
Worldgineer, Jun 02 2004
   

       I'll just order a basement!   

       a bit like those little butler's lifts whose name escapes me...
po, Jun 02 2004
   

       dumbwaiter
Worldgineer, Jun 02 2004
   

       except a dumbwaiter assumes a person or robotic butler is down there filling it up. I want one of these too.
dentworth, Jun 02 2004
   

       I remember film clips from the 50's and 60's showing the "kitchen of tomorrow" having pantrys just like this. If I recall correctly, a fruit basket would decend from the ceiling, too.
phoenix, Jun 02 2004
   

       How about this: Instead of shelves that just move straight up and down, make a bunch of bins mounted on a sort of conveyor belt that loops up through the ceiling, down into the basement through the wall behind the "shelves", and then back up again. The weight of the goods going down would more or less balance the weight of the goods coming up, and you get double the storage space.   

       Buckminster Fuller proposed a similar system for books.
5th Earth, Jun 02 2004
   

       5th Earth. We had one of these down in a 'well known Pharmaceutical Company in the South East of England'. It contained all the old installation and O&M documentation listed under a huge database (held centrally). We were on the 1st floor and the rack went to the ground and back and balanced the weight (roughly) as stated. Damned thing worked as well!
gnomethang, Jun 02 2004
   

       It seems that with the counterweight idea, the shelves would begin to sink as you filled them and rise as you emptied them.
rasberry re-tart, Sep 03 2005
   


 
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