h a l f b a k e r y
Make mine a double.
idea:
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random
meta:
news, help, about, links, report a problem
account:
Browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
or Create a new account.
|
|
|
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Modular interior walls with
appropriate power connections
built in allow you to rearrange
your living space to suit your
immediate need/mood. Bath and
kitchen spaces must remain
stationary due to the difficulty
of modular plumbing and venting.
Having a party? Living/dining
room too small?
No problem!
Pull down a couple walls, store
them in the garage/basement/attic
and open the place up!
Expecting? Create a nursery in
less than an hour.
Need storage? Make a closet!
Moveable walls
http://google.yahoo...+walls%22&hc=0&hs=1
553 hits on Yahoo. [angel, Jun 13 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Annotation:
|
| |
I love this idea. Such an invention would have completely transformed my childhood (I was one of eight people living in a six-room house -- bathroom included in the six). Imagine: more than a drawer to myself; fewer fights with siblings; the ability to write in my diary, change clothes, or cry, unobserved. |
|
| |
Go forth, phoenix, and change the world with your fantastic idea. I regret that I have but one half-croissant to cast in favor of it. |
|
| |
Many trendy new apartment designs already allow this. Baked, but maybe not where you are from. |
|
| |
The walls usually run on tracks and are suspended from the ceiling. I could probably find a link if I had to. |
|
| |
Art galleries do this alot. Big walls on wheels for more hanging space. |
|
| |
Walls on wheels (hidden
casters) is what I had in mind
as I don't think I'd care to
have tracks visible. This also
allows the walls to be
added/removed rather than just
rearranged. |
|
| |
Also handy if you happen to run out of paper in the bathroom...<grin> <Don't get me wrong, I like the shoji screens...just couldn't let a feed line go hungry.> |
|
| |
Hotels use things called 'air-walls' that hang from tracks in the ceiling and lock together when in place. No tracks on the floor, and they store in niches in the walls. |
|
| |
Baked in my loft in Brooklyn. Walls on wheels allow us to reconfigure the space depending on what we're doing with it. |
|
| |
i think the japanese would say "told ya so". |
|
| |
I'd like a house where all the internal walls were the kind
of moveable walls which libraries and archives use to save
storage space - i.e. enormous racks of shelves, probably
weighing several tons each. |
|
| |
Real architects do this sort of thing. Look at some back issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine for more examples of good design and shameless over-consumption. |
|
| |