I got half way through, Deb, when I was overtaken with sadness. I felt I was in the house and had to get out.
As for recessed cabinets, there goes the insulation. Food cannot be stored in it, I don't think, because a bear would come along and rip off a board and tear it all up.
No shed. You always have tools for things up there. Without storage the whole area gets littered unless the place is a cabin not that frequently used.
The places I've been in similar to that but bigger, cabins and such, mostly are not used, the focus being outside. Being inside is too depressing compared to outside.
I like it. I agree, better countertops (in a small house, a few upgrade touches help). Also the wire on the wall is not so good (he can still route that in the wall with a little work and not tearing up all the drywall).
I think that is a chase wall Chip (wasn't the bathroom on the other side). But I would have figured out how to make the shower bigger (that would be claustrophobic, but I am a cow).
I would not imagine that any insulation was displaced by sinking the cabinets in between the framing for the interior walls.
The dog is awesome.
The staircase (!) is an accident waiting to happen. Dude, look into Japanese architecture and furniture - focus on Tansu chests. It's not as if this is the first time anyone built a small house.
The screen porch - marvelous.
Hoddy plank on the exterior - good choice. Them Y*nkees sure talk funny.
But the lack of a window over the sink kills the deal for me - must be able to do some bird watching while doing the dishes.
Upgrade stuff as you go - you would end up with an A1 place, over time. Cheap, too.
The host dude should not emulate Bob Vila and rap on every piece of wood he encounters - that is an extremely annoying tic.
Oh hell no. I couldn't fit even 1/10 of my core entourage in there, and where do the strippers dance?
I would opt for a fold down ladder, and yes, a fire pole or rope for quick descents like when you are up in the loft and you hear the base player opening your blueberry pop tarts. You need to get down there quick to go all a Kim Jong Un on his ass.
Frankly, if I had 9 acres, my bathtub would be bigger than that house.
1. He might want to look up the definition of bodega
2.LOFT: There is no safety railing in the loft. You could easily just roll out. You'd better enjoy this place while you are young, because going up and down that ladder is going to be an issue if you get older. Even he agrees the placement of the ladder right in the middle of the walkway is stupid. Takes up valuable floor space.
3. Storage? Where does he plan to put his clothing? Stuff it into the rafters for insulation?
4. There is no place to sit down and eat unless he just balances the Spam in his lap. Looking at his girth, I think that he just eats it out of the can standing up. Hope he doesn't plan to ever have company. Only one chair and no place for anyone else to sit. Of course visiting someone in a house the size of a jail cell, might cut down the amount of company.
5. Why isn't there any shelving over the sink. There is just a big blank non functional space. I know he can't recess another cabinet because the bathroom cabinet is on the other side. BUT, if you are going to create a ridiculously tiny house, at least USE all of the space for something functional.
5. He could have freed up much more floor space and allowed positioning of some furniture by placing the heat/stove in the corner.
6. Seems like a lot of electrical outlets on the wall opposite the kitchenette that have no real useful position. Also...maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a refrigerator. Not even a tiny dorm room style.
As a guest room/cottage, something like this might be nice. Your guests will be away from you and not encouraged to stay overly long.
I've lived in small spaces. Studio apartments. My whole family lived and moved around all over the US for years in a 35ft trailer. My first house was 800 square feet and housed two adults and a toddler (yikes). I KNOW SMALL. It is claustrophobic after a while. Depressing and you MUST MUST MUST be so incredibly organized in order to even be able to move in such a small space. Unless you live alone, do not expect to have any privacy. None.
He has 9 acres and wants to live in a box the size of a jail cell.
Great idea about the tansu chests. Storage, beauty, utiliy.
Yes, that could be one painful accident. And the ladder is my glaring flaw. Right in the middle of the kichen? A bunk-bed type ladder would be more space effecient and better looking.
It's funny, right at the end the interviewer started to annoy me. Not the wood knocking, which I didn't notice, but the clever chatter...a little too smooth.
I didn't see any storage or closets. I realize that the trick is to avoid accumulating "stuff" but you still need to put stuff away, your coat and boots and a few changes of clothing.
I didn't like the loft. I would have had a murphy bed downstairs and used the loft as attic storage or something. Put the door in line with the kitchen and the murphy bed on the bathroom side. Going up and down a ladder to use the pot at night doesn't work.
You know... you could probably build murphy steps... a staircase on a railing that pulled out and down from the wall to walk up to the loft space and folded back flat to the wall again so it was out of the way.
It was echo-y. Wood surfaces are nice, sure, and acoustic tiles are ugly, but it reminded me of my kitchen. I call it the "eat as a family and hate each other space" because the longer you're in the same room the more annoying everyone else gets because all the voices sound sharp.
My husband is wanting to go to Japan and the apartments there are tiny, tiny. I think that a person could do it, perhaps, but you really have to think about what you've got and how you're going to use it.
LOL. I was going to add that comment as well, about it being a really nice dog house.
It does seem well constructed. The porch where you can view the rest of the world is pretty nice too.
@ Sixty. I agree. No view from the kitchen sink. He could have fixed that by changing the placement....HOWEVER.... Having the plumbing on an outside wall in that environment is a really really bad idea. I would put shallow glass shelving over the sink to display glassware, cups, pottery and dishes with a nice overhead light to make it all sparkle. Or... a large picture of some beautiful outdoor scene, maybe something tropical, to alleviate the jail cell feeling.
Life is too short, and the world is too big for this. Throughout history, when you do something wrong, your punishment has always included being placed in a small space. Why punish yourself?
@ Sixty. I agree. No view from the kitchen sink. He could have fixed that by changing the placement....HOWEVER.... Having the plumbing on an outside wall in that environment is a really really bad idea. I would put shallow glass shelving over the sink to display glassware, cups, pottery and dishes with a nice overhead light to make it all sparkle. Or... a large picture of some beautiful outdoor scene, maybe something tropical, to alleviate the jail cell feeling.
Come on, a dude built it. In a few years he'll probably have a 14 pt. mounted buck hanging on the wall.
You know how closets have to be two feet deep. I bet you could do a nice closet only a foot deep without just using hooks by hanging hangers on posts perpendicular to the wall. You'd have to take the front hangers off to get to the clothes behind them, but that's not a big deal.
They make soak tubs that take up the space of a shower... they have a door. I saw one at Home Depot. For old people. You open the door and there is a seat to sit on. The door seals and it fills up with water.
I don't think I'd mind a murphy bed. So long as the blankets are attached at the bottom you wouldn't have to make it every day, and just flip it up, right?
Come on, a dude built it. In a few years he'll probably have a 14 pt. mounted buck hanging on the wall.
LOL. At least he will have some place to hang those grungy dish towels. AND his underwear to dry after washing in the itty bitty washing machine......I didn't see a clothes dryer either unless it is a combo washer and dryer. So Bambi gets to wear dish cloths and tighty whities (hopefully without skid marks)
:-)
The video projector thingy was really cool. Nice and small and perfectly functional.
I would love to have a building like that for crafting and art purposes. Just not to actually live in.
The slightest bit of real - as opposed to ideal - living and such a small space becomes unbearably cluttered. Of course if you're a hoarder type who ends up with tiny paths between your junk no matter how big the space you live in, well, for you what difference does it make? But if you find clutter disturbing avoid a tiny house (or apartment) like the plague.
It would make a lot of sense with his 9 acres to build a "guest cabin" to live in while saving for a real house. :)
Yes it would. It would make good economic sense and doesn't need to be an "eco statement".
One thing that I would love to do is to get an older camping trailer. Like an Airstream. Retrofit it and establish the trailer as a permanent guest cottage with neat decks and cute landscaping. Septic tank etc. It would be a cool period piece and a lot of fun for overflow company guests.
I think a whole vintage trailer resort...sort of like this but better, more upscale, would be a dead bang winner.
Ampersand, a relative of mine that passed a few years ago, my mother's mother's cousin, told the story of how the people in Poland hated the Bolsheviks because they'd take part of the crops, and they said her mother's house (when her mother was a child) was considered to big for their family, and strangers were allowed to move in with them. I think that's how the story went.
Watch the movie Doctor Zhivago for a fictionalized version of what actually took place. Watch and learn. Pasternak knew first hand the evils of collectivism in action.
Yes, Deb, you've GOT to see the movie. The visuals are stunning and one really has to see the bit about the occupation of the good Doctor's home to get the full flavor of it all. Like sixty I saw it in the original at the old now defunct upscale single-screen Robert E Lee theatre out by the Lakefront in New Orleans on Lee Drive in the Lee shopping center the summer of 1965. (It had a two story glass front lobby with five riverboat-type chandeliers and, lol, a copper concession stand.) Memories....
it's funny, right at the end the interviewer started to annoy me. Not the wood knocking, which I didn't notice, but the clever chatter...a little too smooth.
There you have it in a nutshell. Not enough room for me to roll on the floor laughing!
Love the Tansu chests. To have lived this long and never heard of them is a lack, which is why I appreciate this blog and posts of this sort.
deborah, I'm glad you're :)ing; I am too! To be clear, my online name is MamaM, a palindrome whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction.
Many homes and appartments in Europe lack closets. In Germany, people have a Schranke instead (a word and object which only got as far as PA in this country).
We had schranks in Maryland, too. Schrankage when the farm ponds were too cold, also. Which was fine, because there were snapping turtles in those same ponds.
In Germany, people have a Schranke instead (a word and object which only got as far as PA in this country).
That's a wardrobe closet ("amoire"?) ...and it was the common "closet & dressor combo" in rural Korea for centuries, may still be in the hinterlands. A rural or far sub-urban (like in Bupyong, between Seoul and Inchon) Korean family would have at least one plus the equivalent of a Tansu Chest, and they moved them each every time they moved.
Where I lived was rather rural and the last time I moved there it was by ox-cart (circa 1971). It confounds me now that I cannot recall the Hangul names for either the closet or the chest...too many years with little use.
There is a woodworker who has been focused on what was known as campaign furniture - the similarities between what Europeans and Asians built in order to carry and protect their stuff is interesting.
I don't much care for the guy, as his philosophy seems a bit off, so I won't mention his name, but his research is interesting and he will soon publish a book on what he learned.
I think that British campaign furniture was influenced by contact with China and India - at least that's what my very superficial understanding of the subject suggests to me.
The word Kas was used by the Dutch for a portable cupboard - I used to see those all the time in the olden days.
It was a giant cupboard that was passed down through the family. It was a bone of contention on divorces, wills and family squabbles of all sorts. It was from Jackson, Mississippi. It is now in my brother's house. He can have it - it is a millstone. An albatross. A harbinger of bad news.
Anyway, my mother always made these special holiday cookies and never let us have any. Those are for company she always said. After she died my brother found 7 perfectly sealed jars, complete with a Christmas ribbon on each jar, stuck away in the press. They were covered with mold. Think Miss Havisham. Yep, we lived it. Good times.
That story is still good for a laugh around the campfire. Nutty relations, baked goods too good for undeserving children, giant furniture that has burdened generation after generation - that's what I'm talkin' about!
Jackson Press...Great story! For us it was hidden Chex Mix. Mom would bake up a huge batch in the blue enamel turkey roaster and then hide containers of it around the house so the kids wouldn't find and eat it. One year she hid it in the laundry bin, and another year, after I was out and my brother was still at home, she put it in the clother dryer, but couldn't remember where it was when company came. Food was love, but it didn't do to give the good stuff away too freely. Same with saying the words, tell someone you loved them and who knows what else they might want! We inherited the blue roaster and amended the recipe, leaving out the stuff we didn't like, and now give bags of it away to anyone who likes it or seems worthy. Sort of the same but different!
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I got half way through, Deb, when I was overtaken with sadness. I felt I was in the house and had to get out.
As for recessed cabinets, there goes the insulation. Food cannot be stored in it, I don't think, because a bear would come along and rip off a board and tear it all up.
No shed. You always have tools for things up there. Without storage the whole area gets littered unless the place is a cabin not that frequently used.
The places I've been in similar to that but bigger, cabins and such, mostly are not used, the focus being outside. Being inside is too depressing compared to outside.
Needs more flamingos.
My favorite part is the dog.
I did not proofread this.
lol
I liked the dog, too.
Well, the recessing was in an interior wall, so I don't think that represents a bear hazard.
The recessing made for more food storage...hey, maybe you should have watched the vid.
There must have been a shed.
We also need a new acronym: DNP
You can place the word "Eco" in front of anything and voila'
- it's eco.
and twice the price.
I like it. I agree, better countertops (in a small house, a few upgrade touches help). Also the wire on the wall is not so good (he can still route that in the wall with a little work and not tearing up all the drywall).
I think that is a chase wall Chip (wasn't the bathroom on the other side). But I would have figured out how to make the shower bigger (that would be claustrophobic, but I am a cow).
It would make a cute place to rent for a week or two. Living there full time would drive me bananas.
I like it - it seems like a nice little house.
I would not imagine that any insulation was displaced by sinking the cabinets in between the framing for the interior walls.
The dog is awesome.
The staircase (!) is an accident waiting to happen. Dude, look into Japanese architecture and furniture - focus on Tansu chests. It's not as if this is the first time anyone built a small house.
The screen porch - marvelous.
Hoddy plank on the exterior - good choice. Them Y*nkees sure talk funny.
But the lack of a window over the sink kills the deal for me - must be able to do some bird watching while doing the dishes.
Upgrade stuff as you go - you would end up with an A1 place, over time. Cheap, too.
The host dude should not emulate Bob Vila and rap on every piece of wood he encounters - that is an extremely annoying tic.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
The methanol stove sounds like a bad chemistry experiment.
I thought he said alchol.
Oh hell no. I couldn't fit even 1/10 of my core entourage in there, and where do the strippers dance?
I would opt for a fold down ladder, and yes, a fire pole or rope for quick descents like when you are up in the loft and you hear the base player opening your blueberry pop tarts. You need to get down there quick to go all a Kim Jong Un on his ass.
Frankly, if I had 9 acres, my bathtub would be bigger than that house.
1. He might want to look up the definition of bodega
2.LOFT: There is no safety railing in the loft. You could easily just roll out. You'd better enjoy this place while you are young, because going up and down that ladder is going to be an issue if you get older. Even he agrees the placement of the ladder right in the middle of the walkway is stupid. Takes up valuable floor space.
3. Storage? Where does he plan to put his clothing? Stuff it into the rafters for insulation?
4. There is no place to sit down and eat unless he just balances the Spam in his lap. Looking at his girth, I think that he just eats it out of the can standing up. Hope he doesn't plan to ever have company. Only one chair and no place for anyone else to sit. Of course visiting someone in a house the size of a jail cell, might cut down the amount of company.
5. Why isn't there any shelving over the sink. There is just a big blank non functional space. I know he can't recess another cabinet because the bathroom cabinet is on the other side. BUT, if you are going to create a ridiculously tiny house, at least USE all of the space for something functional.
5. He could have freed up much more floor space and allowed positioning of some furniture by placing the heat/stove in the corner.
6. Seems like a lot of electrical outlets on the wall opposite the kitchenette that have no real useful position. Also...maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a refrigerator. Not even a tiny dorm room style.
As a guest room/cottage, something like this might be nice. Your guests will be away from you and not encouraged to stay overly long.
I've lived in small spaces. Studio apartments. My whole family lived and moved around all over the US for years in a 35ft trailer. My first house was 800 square feet and housed two adults and a toddler (yikes). I KNOW SMALL. It is claustrophobic after a while. Depressing and you MUST MUST MUST be so incredibly organized in order to even be able to move in such a small space. Unless you live alone, do not expect to have any privacy. None.
He has 9 acres and wants to live in a box the size of a jail cell.
What an idiot.
With that dog door, it's really just a fancy dog house, and I bet that's how the dog sees it.
Great idea about the tansu chests. Storage, beauty, utiliy.
Yes, that could be one painful accident. And the ladder is my glaring flaw. Right in the middle of the kichen? A bunk-bed type ladder would be more space effecient and better looking.
It's funny, right at the end the interviewer started to annoy me. Not the wood knocking, which I didn't notice, but the clever chatter...a little too smooth.
Any player, by definition, is base. Nothing fishy about it.
I didn't see any storage or closets. I realize that the trick is to avoid accumulating "stuff" but you still need to put stuff away, your coat and boots and a few changes of clothing.
I didn't like the loft. I would have had a murphy bed downstairs and used the loft as attic storage or something. Put the door in line with the kitchen and the murphy bed on the bathroom side. Going up and down a ladder to use the pot at night doesn't work.
You know... you could probably build murphy steps... a staircase on a railing that pulled out and down from the wall to walk up to the loft space and folded back flat to the wall again so it was out of the way.
It was echo-y. Wood surfaces are nice, sure, and acoustic tiles are ugly, but it reminded me of my kitchen. I call it the "eat as a family and hate each other space" because the longer you're in the same room the more annoying everyone else gets because all the voices sound sharp.
There is a lot of space wasted on the heater. It should be incorporated into the wall, like a fireplace, and what, no pool table?
... but you can't tune a fish.
My husband is wanting to go to Japan and the apartments there are tiny, tiny. I think that a person could do it, perhaps, but you really have to think about what you've got and how you're going to use it.
@ Bago
LOL. I was going to add that comment as well, about it being a really nice dog house.
It does seem well constructed. The porch where you can view the rest of the world is pretty nice too.
@ Sixty. I agree. No view from the kitchen sink. He could have fixed that by changing the placement....HOWEVER.... Having the plumbing on an outside wall in that environment is a really really bad idea. I would put shallow glass shelving over the sink to display glassware, cups, pottery and dishes with a nice overhead light to make it all sparkle. Or... a large picture of some beautiful outdoor scene, maybe something tropical, to alleviate the jail cell feeling.
At least the sun porch would give respite.
And the number of outlets, that's good too. But with solar panels that put out 140 watts (really??), what you going to plug in to them?
Trapped in there for one long cold snap or a week of cloudy skies could induce some suicidal depression.
Life is too short, and the world is too big for this. Throughout history, when you do something wrong, your punishment has always included being placed in a small space. Why punish yourself?
I thought he said alchol.
Cute.
@ Sixty. I agree. No view from the kitchen sink. He could have fixed that by changing the placement....HOWEVER.... Having the plumbing on an outside wall in that environment is a really really bad idea. I would put shallow glass shelving over the sink to display glassware, cups, pottery and dishes with a nice overhead light to make it all sparkle. Or... a large picture of some beautiful outdoor scene, maybe something tropical, to alleviate the jail cell feeling.
Come on, a dude built it. In a few years he'll probably have a 14 pt. mounted buck hanging on the wall.
You know how closets have to be two feet deep. I bet you could do a nice closet only a foot deep without just using hooks by hanging hangers on posts perpendicular to the wall. You'd have to take the front hangers off to get to the clothes behind them, but that's not a big deal.
I draw the line at murphy beds and no bath tub. I don't want to have to mess with double-dutying my sleep surface, and I gots to have my long soaks.
They make soak tubs that take up the space of a shower... they have a door. I saw one at Home Depot. For old people. You open the door and there is a seat to sit on. The door seals and it fills up with water.
I don't think I'd mind a murphy bed. So long as the blankets are attached at the bottom you wouldn't have to make it every day, and just flip it up, right?
Come on, a dude built it. In a few years he'll probably have a 14 pt. mounted buck hanging on the wall.
LOL. At least he will have some place to hang those grungy dish towels. AND his underwear to dry after washing in the itty bitty washing machine......I didn't see a clothes dryer either unless it is a combo washer and dryer. So Bambi gets to wear dish cloths and tighty whities (hopefully without skid marks)
:-)
The video projector thingy was really cool. Nice and small and perfectly functional.
I would love to have a building like that for crafting and art purposes. Just not to actually live in.
Husband just showed up making stomach growling noises as if he thinks it's lunch time and didn't have breakfast...
...go figure.
And I was planning on spending the day doing a better tiny home plan.
Bah.
;-)
I don't know, Syn, it just goes against my delicate sensibilities :)
As far as no sink view, have an outdoor camera.
Totally cool. I've been on fly-in fishing trips into Canada and have stayed in some small cabins that were very functional. One story buildings.
The slightest bit of real - as opposed to ideal - living and such a small space becomes unbearably cluttered. Of course if you're a hoarder type who ends up with tiny paths between your junk no matter how big the space you live in, well, for you what difference does it make? But if you find clutter disturbing avoid a tiny house (or apartment) like the plague.
The cabinets are sunk into an inside wall, so no need to worry about insulation. It would make a nice cabin. Live there year around? No.
Didn't know you were an angler, Allen.
April's time-share(?) idea was cool. The right location, and you could live there as much as you want, rent the rest of the time.
It would make a lot of sense with his 9 acres to build a "guest cabin" to live in while saving for a real house. :)
I've killed me a fair amount of fish, deborah.
It would make a lot of sense with his 9 acres to build a "guest cabin" to live in while saving for a real house. :)
Yes it would. It would make good economic sense and doesn't need to be an "eco statement".
One thing that I would love to do is to get an older camping trailer. Like an Airstream. Retrofit it and establish the trailer as a permanent guest cottage with neat decks and cute landscaping. Septic tank etc. It would be a cool period piece and a lot of fun for overflow company guests.
I think a whole vintage trailer resort...sort of like this but better, more upscale, would be a dead bang winner.
the first photo of the old trailers I mean. Not necessarily this resort.
Fly fishing? Do you have a fish mounted on the wall that talks ;)
DBQ, have you heard the term glamping?
Hey, there's a flamingo in the top row for Chip.
But comrades, We have determined there is room for three or four families in all that space.
Almost heaven!
OHMYGOD, Sixty, I LOVE it.
Ampersand, a relative of mine that passed a few years ago, my mother's mother's cousin, told the story of how the people in Poland hated the Bolsheviks because they'd take part of the crops, and they said her mother's house (when her mother was a child) was considered to big for their family, and strangers were allowed to move in with them. I think that's how the story went.
Watch the movie Doctor Zhivago for a fictionalized version of what actually took place. Watch and learn. Pasternak knew first hand the evils of collectivism in action.
Glamping. Never heard it but that is exactly what I was getting at.
Neato
Thanks, Sixty, maybe I'll listen on tape.
Eco-time share - Deb.:) Just think of the possibilities.
The movie is worth watching - David Lean directed it and it looks good.
I saw it in the theater when it was first released - I nearly froze - hey, maybe it's the perfect movie for this current cold snap!
Marketing is everything, April :)
You've convinced me, Sixty. I'll try to watch it sometime.
Yes, Deb, you've GOT to see the movie. The visuals are stunning and one really has to see the bit about the occupation of the good Doctor's home to get the full flavor of it all. Like sixty I saw it in the original at the old now defunct upscale single-screen Robert E Lee theatre out by the Lakefront in New Orleans on Lee Drive in the Lee shopping center the summer of 1965. (It had a two story glass front lobby with five riverboat-type chandeliers and, lol, a copper concession stand.) Memories....
Will def do then, virgil, with two such high recommendations.
it's funny, right at the end the interviewer started to annoy me. Not the wood knocking, which I didn't notice, but the clever chatter...a little too smooth.
There you have it in a nutshell. Not enough room for me to roll on the floor laughing!
Love the Tansu chests. To have lived this long and never heard of them is a lack, which is why I appreciate this blog and posts of this sort.
Deb, If you have a blu ray player, check your library to see if they have Doctor Zhivago in that format.
!!!
:) Mama
No bluray, amp.
Make mine a double, Pall :)
deborah, I'm glad you're :)ing; I am too! To be clear, my online name is MamaM, a palindrome whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction.
Many homes and appartments in Europe lack closets. In Germany, people have a Schranke instead (a word and object which only got as far as PA in this country).
Sorry, MamaM...I usually remember :)
My mom has one from her in-laws; I think she may call it a chifferobe. But maybe a clothespress or wardrobe. Will find out.
If chifferobe, the harsh German language lost over the romantic French. That's why we're going to hell in a handbasket.
We had schranks in Maryland, too. Schrankage when the farm ponds were too cold, also. Which was fine, because there were snapping turtles in those same ponds.
El Pollo Raylan said...
In Germany, people have a Schranke instead (a word and object which only got as far as PA in this country).
That's a wardrobe closet ("amoire"?) ...and it was the common "closet & dressor combo" in rural Korea for centuries, may still be in the hinterlands. A rural or far sub-urban (like in Bupyong, between Seoul and Inchon) Korean family would have at least one plus the equivalent of a Tansu Chest, and they moved them each every time they moved.
Where I lived was rather rural and the last time I moved there it was by ox-cart (circa 1971). It confounds me now that I cannot recall the Hangul names for either the closet or the chest...too many years with little use.
Anyway, before leaving Korea I shipped to my parents a blanket chest similar to this one, that I had made, along the lines of a museum piece from the Choson Dynasty(14th up to early 20th century)...which were still in common use.
There is a woodworker who has been focused on what was known as campaign furniture - the similarities between what Europeans and Asians built in order to carry and protect their stuff is interesting.
I don't much care for the guy, as his philosophy seems a bit off, so I won't mention his name, but his research is interesting and he will soon publish a book on what he learned.
I think that British campaign furniture was influenced by contact with China and India - at least that's what my very superficial understanding of the subject suggests to me.
The word Kas was used by the Dutch for a portable cupboard - I used to see those all the time in the olden days.
Many old American chifferobes got busted up. That's why closets were invented.
Sixty, groannn.
Beautiful example chest, Ari. Lucky parents.
Campaign furniture sounds like a fascinating subject. You know it would be sturdy, yet attractive.
Chick, I think I may have missed something, or were you being straight :)
@deborah: see under in popular culture :)
Khaaaaaan!
It might have been a roll top desk, but that was before everything was put on electricity and run on a paying basis.
It's hard to tell when you are swimmin' in a brand new reservoir.
I think Sixty's posting from Colorado now...he lost me.
Chifferobe mentioned in the great Alabama story morphed into a roll top desk mentioned in the great Delta movie O Brother.
Furniture is important to us here in the South. Or at least in our story telling. Did I ever tell the story of the cookies in the Jackson Press?
One of my fave movies lol. There was a roll top desk in the reservoir?
"Furniture is important to us here in the South. Or at least in our story telling."
Yeah, I know that now, since I read (and bookmarked chick's excellent link :)
You made cookies in a Jackson Press? That sounds like something Allen might know about. Or is Jackson Press a carpentry gizmo?
It was a giant cupboard that was passed down through the family. It was a bone of contention on divorces, wills and family squabbles of all sorts. It was from Jackson, Mississippi. It is now in my brother's house. He can have it - it is a millstone. An albatross. A harbinger of bad news.
Anyway, my mother always made these special holiday cookies and never let us have any. Those are for company she always said. After she died my brother found 7 perfectly sealed jars, complete with a Christmas ribbon on each jar, stuck away in the press. They were covered with mold. Think Miss Havisham. Yep, we lived it. Good times.
That story is still good for a laugh around the campfire. Nutty relations, baked goods too good for undeserving children, giant furniture that has burdened generation after generation - that's what I'm talkin' about!
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Jackson Press...Great story! For us it was hidden Chex Mix. Mom would bake up a huge batch in the blue enamel turkey roaster and then hide containers of it around the house so the kids wouldn't find and eat it. One year she hid it in the laundry bin, and another year, after I was out and my brother was still at home, she put it in the clother dryer, but couldn't remember where it was when company came. Food was love, but it didn't do to give the good stuff away too freely. Same with saying the words, tell someone you loved them and who knows what else they might want! We inherited the blue roaster and amended the recipe, leaving out the stuff we didn't like, and now give bags of it away to anyone who likes it or seems worthy. Sort of the same but different!
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