Cinderblocks are literally just legos for adults. Not because it’s more mature or anything, but because it’s cheaper.
They also destroy your toes if left in the bedroom.
Imagine building a whole building with these cursed blocks
Everyone has steel toed slippers, right?
Except, you know what I discovered just LOVES to live in cinder blocks? For instance the stack I had on my balcony? Black Widow Spiders, that’s who. Whole families of them, each in a section, with egg sacs.
so…you’re telling me you built a condo for black minorities and now you want to evict them?
just calling a shoe a shoe here, but…
Single mothers too, you monster!
Think of the
larvaechildren!
So you had a your balcony nuked from space right?
Right?
Friends :3
Amazing brutalist aesthetic
Ah yes, concrete dust everywhere in my bedroom… delicious.
The zyn counteracts the silicosis : /
Yeah you gotta cover those cinder blocks with a little fabric
Fabric? That sounds dainty. There’s no budget for dainty.
Once upon a time, fabric was just a cheap crafting supply.
What for?
To try and disguise how hard and sharp those corners are. Looks knee high, I predict skin loss.
Not just disguise, but actually soften. You could place your phone down on it without scratching the absolute shit out of it.
Furniture maker here: Would a night stand with open cubbies on the front like that be popular? That would be fairly easy to build out of wood.
Honestly yeah.
The ability to have your mess slightly better organized, and cheap.
Yeah
Compared to like, drawers?
Drawers tend to become a void of lost things, something with many small open shelves would keep things in a “organized chaos”.
You also make a lot of noise when you search trough drawers.
That’s what most people think when they buy big book cases. Little do they know those things are dust/junk magnets. No matter what you do little knick knacks and other random crap always find their way into them.
Well yeah. Because drawers can get filled with sand, and I don’t like sand, it’s course and rough and it gets everywhere…
Drawers have to be opened and searched through. Cubbies are simpler to fill and find things in
I guess you can never underestimate customers too much but “drawers are too hard” is out there
That, but hinged in the middle so you can crack it open and access the inner cubbies
So you want the whole front half of the cabinet to swing open like a door? Thinking back to a VHS caddy my parents had, the problem there is sag.
I don’t think the actors guild cared that much about where you put your tapes.
No not the Screen Actor’s Guild, the other SAG, Slumping About Gravity. Technical carpentry term.
It’s like a bedside wine rack, 11/10.
Also, wood would not put scratches on all my possessions.
Everyone thinks this is a good idea until they have it and the dust builds up constantly. Drawers were invented for a reason.
Source: my ragtrets
Sure, half the stuff in Ikea is empty frames which you can put drawers and doors on. Which is entirely optional, half our house is just empty frames.
It’s basically the cinder-version of an Ikea Kallax shelf, which also allows per-cubby accessories like baskets, doors, and subdividers.
I used to have exactly that as my nightstands, with a basket on the bottom to hide stuff and the other cubby was just open.
Okay Deadpool.
Do you think this is an insult? Because it really isn’t.
It was supposed to be an insult?
I don’t know, that’s what in asking
I read it as a neutral “this is something Deadpool would say”
Now I don’t know what to feel!
Where do you hide your sex toys then?
Hide?
In my bum
Absolutely. It’s a simple design that makes it easy to find things in the dark, and provides plenty of storage space for various bits and bobs you might want easy access to before bed or in the morning (not just that, get your mind out of the gutter!). Make sure at least one of the cubbies are large enough to take an oversized hardback book, and ideally have some space under it to hide an extension cord so you can plug in your phone charger and a bedside lamp.
Amateur hour! The cinder blocks are all aligned and could more easily tip over; stagger those joints! The top will scratch your phone; put a piece of wood, cardboard, or an old shirt on top to protect it. Also, throw away that phone box, that shit ain’t collectable.
Maybe I’ll need that phone box in the future
Great for shipping RMA, you know it will fit and get there in the condition it left in.
I will admit that I store old phones in the original box.
Same with some old computer parts.
I used to do that.
Now I use a box cutter and cut out any bar codes or serial numbers off most of the boxes and put them in the motherboard box with the rest of manuals and accessories. It was hard at first but it’s been good.
I’ve repurposed a few of those boxes, though my most recent iPhone box couldn’t be repurposed, so that one I threw out.
Just jealous because I didn’t need $40k to furnish my home.
The dead plant is a nice touch.
How about the wall mounted zyn cans?
It’s a Guiana Chestnut. They are exceptionally easy to look after.
Because it’s dead?
Not sure I understand the question, but think you might have replied to the wrong comment.
They are exceptionally easy to look after…because they’re dead?
Oh, right, got you! They need less watering when they’re dead, that’s for sure.
It’s plastic. Available from Ickea for 5.99 and called Schlorpobrotto.
I can’t find that, and I’m unsure why anybody would want a dead plastic plant.
There’s a place called Ickea?
I saw the same thing for less on Shamazon
$2 cheaper on fleabay. No wait $2.32 less. No wait this one is $2.51 less.
Awe fuck it I’m getting the first one.
Erm, I took your comment a bit too seriously and thought it was a typo 🤭
yeah man! the fucking dead plant sent me!
I just sleep on the floor in a circle of boxes with my things in them. Get on my level.
As a woman, this is neat, but it needs paint. Lol
I would say that paint depends on what style the room is overall.
Looking at the bed for comparison some paint would be needed, however comparing to the shelf it might be an industrial looking and if that is the case paint wouldn’t be necessary and cinder blocks can fitt into it.
In conclusion, we need more pictures of the room to determine paint or no paint and colour.
The design is a awesome, but come on don’t put it directly over the floor, put a rag or something under it.
And add some of that vinyl shelving paper for peak vibes
You may not like it, but this is what peak Buy It For Life looks like.
What’s wrong with this?
I have problems with it.
For one, all the edges are scratchy. You run the risk of roughing your hands every time you reach in to get stuff.
For another, I (and my boyfriend, who I had the urge to spritz with a bottle of water when I saw this out of reflex) have ADHD, which is rough for proprioception. In other words, we aren’t so great at judging the relationship in space between ourselves and furniture, and bang into it a lot. In other words, when we inevitably punch this cinderblock trying to reach in to grab something, or bang a hand down on it just trying to reach for a phone, we’re going to skin our hands and that’s blood we don’t need on random surfaces.
Finally, as someone else pointed out, when we inevitably bang our feet on it, now we’re lookin’ at a broken toe.
(For the record, I told the boyfriend I saw this and almost spritzed him with water, and he laughed.)
Well, I can see how it could be problematic for people with those issues. I do have issues but not those, so I didn’t see a problem.
It’s something to keep in mind if you have clumsy friends or in case you might get a clumsy boyfriend or girlfriend. Or in case you drink sometimes.
Is your boyfriend a cat
Is your boyfriend a cat
Jesus could you imagine stubbing your toe on that in the middle of the night
Well, for one thing, I’d not be walking into that wall anyway.
I like it except would definitely have to put those little round felt pads for chair feet under it to protect the floor.
And pad the corners for my elbows!
