The problem with most beds is that they do one thing: support your unconscious body for 6-13 hours a night depending on your employment situation. For the other 18-11 hours, mono-purpose beds just laze around the house, occupying a ton of.
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Carbon fiber is the material of choice when engineers and designers need high strength without added volume and weight–perfect for things like bikes, wheelchairs, high performance cars, aerospace parts, etc. But aside from a few novelty items, carbon fiber hasn’t been.
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The Schindelhauer ThinBike–a specially designed bike that goes from conventional width into a super-slim, small-space-storage-friendly ride–is pretty awesome. But after we reviewed the bike, many of you asked, “how do I do that to my bike?” That’s what the FlipCrown.
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While useful when you need it, luggage can be a pain in the butt when not in use. A rolling bag’s typically-rigid rectangular volume requires a big hunk of closet space, often displacing stuff that’s in regular circulation. Luggage manufacturer Eagle Creek has.
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There’s a tendency for small-space designers to go high with storage. And while this is often the best solution, it’s not the only one. This 377 sq ft studio retreat by Italian firm Studioata is a nice example of how storage can be built.
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Chances are milk crates somehow made their way into many of our first forays into home decoration. The ubiquitous plastic crates stack great, provide lots of usable storage, and can be used as a stool or end table in a.
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If you use cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, you know how convenient it is to access your files from any computer or device. But what about non-data stuff? What if there was a way we could magically store.
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Building vertical storage makes buckets of sense in small spaces, but accessing it can be difficult. What’s the point of storing stuff if you can’t access it? Designer Danny Kuo has a brilliant solution for this conundrum: use the bottom.
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We really dig the “living cube” by Swiss designer Till Könneker. It handles two fairly common problems in one tidy package. One, it creates storage in an open loft space without adding closets. Two, it consolidates a great deal of worldly.
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These plastic doohickies might look like shower caps, but they are actually designed to protect food. Just slip them over plates, platters or any other container, and you have a food-preserving cover. Many of the companies that make them use.
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