As the 21st century opens, with a bang up GREAT RECESSION, more and MORE of us will be forced into smaller spaces. The average American homeowner is constitutionally unable to let five families into his house as they were forced to do in Russia, but one family can often be forced into a one room space, not by the Block Commissar but by poverty.
A great new business one could do would be dwarf furniture with dual
functions. I got this idea after watching an
Oprah show about small apartment design Maybe SMALL APARTMENTs
but a big big show. The idea was for Nate Burkas, her on-show designer,
to help ordinary people fit into one room spaces. The first subject owned
her single room in Manhattan which I estimate she paid 300 thousand
for. Just a single normal, small sized room. This hardy soul, about
45, lived there with her two cats. The bad thing about owning in NYC is
you have huge monthly FEES to the BUILDING association, just as high as
rent in some parts.
However it was in a trendy area and this single room space was nice enough. But it was small alright. Small bed, but no coffee table cuz hey, NO ROOM! She has a single 12 x 16 space. UNDER BED is a pull out drawer for her books, WEE little bath, toilet faces catbox, two cats. KITCHEN has no stove or oven or microwave. I guess she gets all food at local deli. I just noticed a coffee pot.
Nate went wild. EVERY WALL on four sides, also the ceiling had swagged cotton drapes, kind of a gold floral. BOY HER CATS ARE GONNA LOVE THAT! Chandelier off a swagged ceiling. Her bed is now in middle of this small room swagged, in same fabric as curtains. DISTURBINGLY overdressed space. Vanity built in, whole wall became closets of built ins, but between them, more disturbing curtains cuz even that wall is partiallyd draped, too between the new HOME DEPOT china breakfront and vanity. Before no stove, he did give her a fab built in kitchen sik over dishwasher, cooktop, microwave is really an avantium oven, a toaster, warmer, microwave all in one --and a fridge, fulls size. Under sink, pullouts for soap, cleaner, storage.
Her bath was real small, but he gave her new fixtures, sink, mirror, floor. the cat litter box is built in. .
I wouldn't score one for NATE because of overuse of cotton draperies like a seraglio, and ceiling too, and I didn't see the space for the space age vacuum cleaner. small furnitury-things, a bed from "off the wall", wi. underneath drawers. Exactly which that woman had.
Some stuff from ikea, small but then it had another feature, it was dual function, The built in wall units had beds that came down out of them, or desk tops. The coffee table separated and offered a planchette that becomes a desk. Another vertical desk was in a simple wall unit, costing only 199$ and that pull down became a secretary for wrriting yet there was overhead space, and below drawers, whole thing when you shut doors just looks like a tall cupboard.
Chest of drawers that has a slide off top goes sideways on wheels, to reveal that IT is a desk top for eating. And you can look down on the top drawer, I guess, see your panties. I'd lose my appetite.
Now they're doing a lot of small space furniture. A round table. But he pulls and out comes one chair then four. You can't see it has four chairs so well tucked in are they that when stuck close to table, they are invisible. Unless you count legs.
ALL walls on Oprah's set have pocket doors or sliding, no doors that open. He sez that's what you wanna do to your place. Right, with that extra five grand I have lying around.
COFFEE TABLE w. 2 sliding ottomans underneath full of storage. They pull out each end. WORLD FURNITURE MALL has it, "COCKTAIL TABLE." It's called.
Then a little vanity, CONRAN 'marie villant vanity" looks like a short narrow Austrian antique worth 5,000$ which I saw on ANTIQUE ROADSHOW the day before. Mirrored back, but so short that you could not see your face unless you were on your knees, so go figure. The two sides of the desk part became drawers when you separated the front two columns and splayed them open. Then the drawers would come out Odd item, Louis 14th chairs upholstered of wood but they folded up like bridge table chairs.
The piece de resistance, a Huge four shelf wall unit, having four vertical
bookshelves. BUT quelle sorprise, the central two vertical shelves turn
outwards to close on itself even with your china in it? and a bed comes
down out of middle, IF YOU PULL, probably a back killer mattress.
SMALL FURNITURE SITES: http://searchwarp.com/swa628011-Furniture-Wont-Fit-Take-A-Look-At-The-New-Small-Sofa-Options.htm
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/index.ognc?CategoryID=37838&PageID=162515909705825
Expensive, so I'd hit Salvation Army, do a slipcover for a small settee, find small arm chairs. Remember, we are heading into a massive GREAT RECESSION and many people will be forced out of home rentals, 2 bdrm apartment rentals into studios where a bed, sofa, chair co-exist in the living room!
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