INCREDIBLE Space Saving Furniture – Murphy Bed Ideas…

….	Date: June 27, 2020 01) INCREDIBLE Space Saving Furniture – Murphy Bed Ideas “Hi! This list of INCREDIBLE Space-Saving Furniture, Murphy Bed, Bunk Bed Compilation for a small space apartment or home. We’ve collected will show you how much space a well-designed home product or piece of furniture can save you. Let’s take a look at some incredible space-saving furniture that could be a great fit for your tiny apartment or home. Hope You Like it! Span Coffee Transformer Table: In just a matter of seconds, it can transform from a dining or business table into a much smaller coffee table. MurphySofa Stratus: Pull the bed down from against the wall. If you often use your bedroom as a living space during the day, or if you want an extra bed for when guests stay over, this design could be for you. An extendable coffee and dining table serves as a support for the end of the bed. The Mini Scatola: Bench that can be packed down into a singular box seat. Dormire Sofa Bunk Bed: The comfy couch transforms into a bunk bed that can fit 2 adults. Tumidei Foldaway Bed and Fluffy Sofa: Combines with a fluffy sofa. The bed is pulled down from the wall on a servo-assisted frame, meaning it uses hydraulics, to ensure it lowers safely when unassisted. FLAT 3 in 1 Smart Furniture: Smart 3 in 1 furniture option from the FLAT studio. A clever table idea from VOX. Make business meetings or family gatherings more convenient and fun with VOX’s Big Table. Poster Bed and Bookcase: This design is excellent for families and keeps your things organized, even when things get a little busy in the mornings! Folding Stairs and Chairs: If you have limited space, then stairs and chairs can tend to get in the way and make moving around quite awkward. One designer from Australia has created a folding stair system made out of bamboo, a material widely used in construction because of its strength. Hidealoo System: Emerging from the wall of a wet room, or from under the kitchen sink cabinet in a tiny bathroom, the hidealoo is a brilliant innovation that frees up a great deal of space. KALI Pull-Down Bed with APP Desk: A single bed with headrest folds out from against the wall and a table extends and folds out from within a study desk. Swivel foldaway bed: The key difference here obviously being the swivel design, rather than the bed lowering or folding down like many others. The reverse side of the bed can be used as a bookcase or extra shelving. Kali Board by Clei: The Kali board by Clei transforms from a shelf or desk to a bed with storage underneath. Foldaway double beds with sofa: Rather than a single bed and shelf, this double bed transforms into a sofa. It would fit nicely in a studio flat or in an apartment as a spare bed. ITO foldaway bed: And finally, this stylish ITO foldaway bed can sleep 2 people and then be turned into a sofa and bookshelf.”	….

16 Year Old Builds a Tiny Home…

….	Date: June 16, 2020 01) 16 YEAR OLD BUILDS TINY HOUSE	….
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Primitive Technology: Making Copper Bricks and Making Clay Bricks…

….	Date: April 27, 2020 01) Primitive Technology: Making Copper Bricks and Making Clay Bricks “Hello. Our house over time has been seriously damaged. after a storm it was partially destroyed. Our old house will be very dangerous to live there. We decided to relocate to a new place. We decided to do it all again. We will build a new empire. Initially we will make clay bricks. we will build more permanent structures and can last for hundreds of years over time. We decided to make a copper brick mold. with the tools we have previously created and the accumulated experience. It will be very soon. We will build a new era. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to the channel to follow the latest videos.”	….

How To Make A Carbon Filament Lightbulb…

….	Date: March 29, 2020 01) How To Make A Carbon Filament Lightbulb “Here we explore the making of the first light bulbs invented by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan.”	….

Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms…

….	Date: March 10, 2020 01) Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms “In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid $235,000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen. Then he let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects design a way to pack more density into his small space. In order to fit more apartment in a small footprint, they created an object that’s bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day. It’s a large, blue, oversized cabinet that houses all of the walls/bed/tables/shelving/closets needed for at least 4 full-sized rooms. By continuing to unfold, or fold differently, Schneider can create a bedroom with accompanying built-in nightstand and closets, but an office plus library, a guest bedroom, and a living room. Or close it up entirely and simply flip down the small bar and the room becomes entertaining space for a dozen. The Normal Projects architects called their creation the Unfolding Apartment, though given Schneider’s affinity for the Japanese sense of space (he spent his first year post-college living and teaching in Japan), it could as easily be called the Origami Apartment. In total, Schneider spent $70,000 total remodeling his new apartment and this includes not just the cabinet, but the bathroom renovation, all cabinetry, kitchen appliances, furniture and dishes. In this video, Chen shows us his custom cabinet of rooms and Schneider unfolds a few of his favorite configurations: his bedroom (& closet/changing room), office (& library), guest bedroom, kitchen, dining bar, living room and lounge. Normal Projects/Michael Chen Architecture: http://www.normalprojects.com/“	….
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The Reality of Van Life on Social Media…

….	Date: March 01, 2020 01) The Reality of Van Life on Social Media “After my experience of being a van life youtuber, I came to the conclusion that it’s really not possible to not make something on youtube look better than it really is without making it extremely boring. Many people think that they want or like creators who show all sides of their lifestyle accurately. No they don’t. Van life and travel vlogs are entertainment. They’re enjoyable to watch because they allow us to dream of a life we don’t have or can’t have. If you were to see what van life was actually like the majority of the time for anyone who’s not rich and not working or who’s income doesn’t come from making their life into a “reality” tv show so people can live vicariously through them, you’d yawn and move onto the next video.”	….
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Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro lofts…

….	Date: January 30, 2020 01) Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro lofts “The Providence Arcade is nearly 2 centuries old, but when Evan Granoff bought it was considered one of the city’s most endangered properties. Realizing that the demand for commercial space would never match that for downtown housing, Granoff decided to convert the upper floors of the country’s first indoor mall into tiny loft apartments. At just 225 square feet, the smallest units would have fallen below the city’s minimum size standard for apartments so Granoff decided to classify his micro-lofts as a rooming house. The Providence rooming house code allows for rooms as small as 80 square feet (single occupancy), as long as they don’t have a cooking facility. Fortunately, for Granoff and tenants, a microwave is not considered a cooking device. The tiniest units rent for $550 per month, almost half the city average, and all of them rented out almost immediately (there’s now a waiting list). Many of the tenants don’t spend a lot of time at home. We talked to Naz Karim, a doctor who works emergency room shifts, and plans to spend much of the year on a fellowship in Africa and Sharon Kinnier who uses the loft for when she’s working in a Providence lab formulating organic cosmetics (she spends the rest of the time with her husband in Washington D.C.). The bottom floor of the mall is still commercial, but Granoff limits it to micro retail so no chains and they’re all focused on fashion and art design. We stopped in at nude boutique where Amy Stetkiewicz, one of the 6 local designers, was closing up shop downstairs from her micro loft.” $750 a month for this is obscene…but I love the general thing they’ve done with this old mall.	….
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Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance…

….	Date: January 21, 2020 01) Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance “Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban living. Architect Moshe Safdie wanted to integrate the qualities of a suburban home- the access to nature and views- into a high-rise. Built for the 1967 World’s Fair, Habitat 67 was also a prototype of an affordable “3D modular building system” that he hoped would “reinvent the apartment building”. Like the Japanese Metabolism movement (see Nagakin capsule tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRJE2caPNY), Habitat 67 is an interconnected web of prefabricated cells stacked so the emergent whole feels less coldly geometric and more organic. “Habitat 67 comprises 354 identical, prefabricated concrete forms arranged in various combinations, reaching up to 12 stories in height. Together these units create 146 residences of varying sizes and configurations, each formed from one to eight linked concrete units. The complex originally contained 158 apartments, but several apartments have since been joined to create larger units, reducing the total number. Each unit is connected to at least one private terrace, which can range from approximately 20 to 90 square metres (225 to 1,000 sq ft) in size.” – Wikipedia Originally, Safdie had aimed to create an affordable prefab system, but given the experimental nature of the project, costs reached approximately C$140,000 per unit (pricey for the 1960s). Today, the apartment owners all own shares in the building. Long-time resident George Boynton helped instigate changing the status of the complex from government-owned apartment building to a private Limited Partnership Complex. He gave us a tour of the 10-story building and a walk-through of Mosha Safdie’s newly-renovated apartment. Habitat 67 tours: https://www.habitat67.org/en/guided-tours-english/ *faircompanies: https://faircompanies.com/videos/habitat-67-stacks-354-prefabs-that-get-urban-suburban-balance/“ Not so sure I’d do well with the open heights…but, this is still awesome. Nakagin: 140 plug n’ play capsules float in metabolist tower: “Resembling clusters of space pods stacked 13 stories tall, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is the world’s first example of capsule architecture. When erected in 1972, tiny prefab apartments were stacked like LEGOs (by crane) around a concrete core. Attached by only 4 high-tension bolts, the capsules were designed to be plugged in and replaced when necessary. Each pod was a micro apartment measuring 4 by 2.5 meters, intended for Japanese businessmen who wanted to avoid a long commute home. Everything came built-in: a bed, a sink, a refrigerator, bathroom, folding desk and even a TV, radio and alarm clock. Built in 1972 in Tokyo’s Ginza District, the building is one of the only remaining examples of Metabolist architecture: a movement begun in the 1960s that treated cities as dynamic, evolving organisms. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa for sustainability and recycleability, the Nakagin Tower has not been maintained and now nearly 50 years after it’s construction, many of the capsules are uninhabitable. In 2007, when the building’s residents voted to demolish the building. Kurokawa proposed “unplugging” the worn-out units and replacing them with newer capsules (an idea supported by the Japan Institute of Architects). Kurokawa died in late 2007. Given the high rents in the Ginza neighborhood, most of the residents continue to push to replace the entire building, but an online group has organized to save the building and its fate remains unclear. Today, a few residents like Masato Abe rent their unit outs on AirBnB. We (the faircompanies family of five) rented it for a night. In this video, Abe shows us his neighbor’s unit which is in nearly original condition and we filmed our night with the five of us sleeping in a self-contained capsule built for one.”	….
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Amazing Home Ideas and Ingenious Space Saving Designs…

….	Date: January 14, 2020 01) Amazing Home Ideas and Ingenious Space Saving Designs Please visit this videos YouTube page, for the relevant links.	….

Rammed Earth: You won’t Believe How They Build This!…

….	Date: December 14, 2019 01) Rammed Earth : You won’t Believe How They Build This! “Join Matt as he travels to see a Rammed Earth House being built in the High Desert of West Texas. Architecture by – https://www.lakeflato.com Construction by – http://www.pilgrimbuilding.com“	….