By: Not Sara, Sorry
How would you like to injure yourself today? Roll off the platform, fall down the stairs, fall off the bed, hit your head in the low closet… the choice is yours!
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I’m 5’7″ tall, and I would be more than a little afraid of whacking my head on the ceiling every time I went up that disturbingly steep and sharp-curving staircase. I think an interior designer is trying to murder the next owner.
Actually, I think they’re trying to murder the next owner’s children.
Actually, that’s why the rest of us got eyes. Nifty.
Yes, but some of us didn’t got equilibrium. Eyes don’t do much for that.
Wow, finally a guest room that will keep guests from staying more than…one night.
…if that long…BYE!
I love this. Unfortunately, in my house, I’d have to add one more safety hazard — being decapitated by the ceiling fan that would inevitably be in whichever room I set this up in.
I’m getting an inspiration for an enclosed, sound-proof version for college dorm rooms. It might save a lot of freshman roommate relationships or at least make them bearable.
You’d need to wrap the inhabitants in bubblewrap, though. Imagine the lawsuits!
I like this little space, but something about it makes me think *dollhouse* – everything looks very artfully crafted as a realistic miniature. Is there a link, Not Sara?
actually, I love this. My best friend had a similar set up that he put together himself when he was living in a fraternity room, only he put a mini kitchenette under!
WANT!!! SO want!
I ain’t living in 2D, that’s so 20th century…
Let’s not forget the possibility of a ton of books falling off those wonky bookshelves and directly onto the head of the person sleeping in the bed…
So long as you take care to put them back properly, they aren’t likely to fall except during a natural disaster.
I dunno… maybe the fact that you’d need to “put them back properly” or they might fall *is* an issue, at least for me. Not putting books on *any* shelves properly can be a problem, but when the shelf angles end up helping gravity do its thing, it’s a bigger problem.
If the shelf weren’t right over the bed, I don’t think it would bother me so much. Also, I was thinking about how my husband throws one arm around in his sleep some nights. I refer to the results as The Elbow of Death. I just never thought it might be *his* death, probably because we don’t have wonky bookshelves above our bed.
Annnh… not really a big deal. It was just a thought.
The book shelves aren’t angled downward from the wall, they’re just at odd angles to each other. I’m relatively certain you could toss your book up there any way you like and, barring an earthquake or the building of the Matlock Expressway, it’d stay up there until you next wanted to grab it.
If this was my house pod, I’d definitely trip and impale myself on one of those stair rail posts.
This stair unit is free-standing, not attached to the structure. The support posts are made up of several sections. How can this thing be anything but rickety?
I admit to being very sensitive to stairs nowadays. I broke my arm a couple years ago, having slipped just two steps on my own normal staircase. It took 6 months before I could sign my name firmly, so it didn’t look like my great grandmother’s handwriting.
Are those fruit rollups in the trash can?
The idea is just fine, but the execution sucks. There’s a lot of tweeking to be done to make this suitable.
But on the up-side you’ve got the makings of a kick-ass fort.
I’m thinking you’d need a fairly high ceiling to make this work. The 8-foot ceilings in my house wouldn’t cut it!
I agree. You’d probably want a 12 foot ceiling to feel comfortable. But it could probably be pulled off with 10 foot ceilings.
I love this. I lived in a tiny studio some years ago, this would have been perfect!
The chair isn’t going to fall off because the desk is there acting as railing, and you’d have to roll well out of your way to get to the stairs. The bed is safer than most bunk beds. Not much higher than a ‘normal’ bed to the ‘floor’ next to it. The spiral stairs have a rail. Even the closet is chest-high, so you’d have to be on your knees to get your head in range for bonking.
I don’t like the ‘N’ book shelf. I’d probably do sofa cushions on the wall.
Look again. The spiral stairs don’t have a rail.
Personally, I think the idea of grabbing the pole instead of having a whole rail is a more intuitive choice. That’s what most kids would opt to use, anyway.
Frankly I think this is an ingenious use of vertical space. With land at a premium, you could build taller rooms to allow for maximum utilization of space. If you install some wide windows, as opposed to tall, and a mirror or two, you can create the illusion and feel of a large space.
Replace that post at the top of the steps with something less likely to *impale* a person, and add a railing or backsplash of sorts at the edge of the desk and desk shelves, and I’ll TAKE it!
It is appealing. But I think the stairs are more risk than they are worth: if you need them, you probably shouldn’t be up there. Maybe one foot hold and a hand grip, since you might be carrying something. Coming down, I think it would be safer to sit and drop – especially in the morning – than go dancing down that foot-trap. Geez, what next? Ladders on bunk beds?
I’m a landlord in a college town, and I wish I had a hundred of these, each with a kitchenette and a bathroom. Priced right, I could rent these things all day long.
Wow! This is really cool! I want that bed…
This was designed by Tumdeispa and featured on Dornob! I WANT.
I can think of an improvement. Get rid of the chair and instead put the desk on slides. That way the desk can be pulled toward the end of the bed and the bed can double as the chair. This would eliminate the complexity of the chair and make the design more elegant.
I dunno. A moving desk versus a standard task chair…
I so want this room.
This pic gives me vertigo.
WANT
In European super expensive cities like London and Paris, these would a necessity. A million euros or pounds doesn’t buy you squat in places like those.
For really small rooms, this is a god-send. And the height of the bed is no worse than a dorm loft.
Perhaps, have a chair that doesn’t roll & you’ll be good. Get a bit more sturdier Stairway. And that Bookshelf is actually designed like that, its not random pieces of wood.
WANT!!!
You neglected to mention “impale yourself on the ever-so-helpful stair pole.”