The Home Crowd

For the gun afficianado, the overbearing father, or general Tony Montana types, I give you the Bedbunker.  A gun safe for those who wish ‘Guns and ammo’ was carried at the register of your local Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

Seem crazy?  Maybe… Maybe not.  Households with guns have few options for their safekeeping.  There’s trigger locking mechanisms, and there are gun safes, which vary from small fireproof safes like you’d find at a office supply store, to full size, monolithic steel cabinets which are more than able to house an assortment of hunting rifles, shotguns, handguns..

Of course under your bed mattress is a strange place to think of as gun storage.  What’s the alternative?  A giant cabinet taking up valuable closet space, or possibly just an eyesore in your den.

If you’re an overprotective father of a teenage girl however, the going standard is still the glass case within a ten foot radius of your front door.

Besides, the only use that box spring was providing was support the mattress so that it didn’t sag into an 80 pound hammock.  Plus it’s not powder coated with gas springs that support it’s 140 pound doors.  (but moving… call movers, ’cause your friends will never forgive you for that one.)

But if you’re in a quick bind, it’s best to have a traditional mattress disguising your bedsafe, because the memory foam mattresses are a big spongy pain in the ass to slide aside.

However, if you’re really planning on being in a quick bind…

1. Might wanna quit the drug game
2. May wanna call an exterminator about the ‘rat problem’ instead of waking the neighbors
3. Might wanna follow up on the following informercial..

Bedbunker website – Link

A bed that makes itself huh?  Just another item in the long shopping list from the ‘homes of tomorrow’.  I mean, we already have the little round robot vacuum that tears around the house while you’re out.  Anyhow, this was one of the featured inventions at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva recently.  There was no vid unfortunately, but as you can see from the picture, arms connected to your sheets, duvet, etc. pull the covers back up and over your bed.

This seems nice for people like me who are lazy, or without a clean-freak spouse or housekeeper.  I’d hate to see what would happen if this thing went haywire.  I suppose it wouldn’t go over well with your boss if you used the ol’ “I’m only late because I was restrained in bed!” excuse.  Sure he’d be impressed, but you’ll still hear about it at your annual review.

From USA Today (via OhGizmo)

There was a time, shortly after graduating college when the idea of just packing up the car one day and moving from sunny California to the east coast.  But what to do with all my stuff.  At the time I had a bulky desktop computer, alot of furniture, TV’s, and tons of junk.  Who’d want to move that?  No, sell it, give it, toss it in a dumpster if necessary.

Start over, start clean.  But that takes time, lotsa shopping, and lots of lost weekends searching for the next great coffee table.  Seems like this might be a good product for those brave enough to just go off the grid, leave in the middle of the night, take their clothes and pictures, and leave town with a full tank of gas.

Although it’s just a concept from the designers at Casulo, based out of Germany, it seems as though this would be a great product for those sending the kids off to college (not in furnished dormitory housing), or just someone who needs to relocate and have the basics until they’ve replenished their living environment piece by piece.

(From Casulo via eUpgrader)

This is great for those who just can’t get a good night’s sleep without that chlorine smell in the air. Then again, that probably wouldn’t be good either, probably like sleeping in a garage full of paint supplies.

Bonbon uk has a great collection of “Compact Living” beds. The assortment of Wall beds (what we here know of as ‘murphy beds’) and convertible sofa beds is quite imaginative. Where might these beds be useful in your home? Well, possibly for kids rooms or just those who live in townhomes, lofts, live/work spaces or just small homes where your space is precious and your space needs may change on a daily cycle. Or maybe you just wanna stuff out-of-town visitors in the den, and see how long they struggle with trying to ‘transform’ the couch below into a bunk bed, before, ultimately giving up and allowing the resident 8-year old to assemble it in about 12 seconds flat while they stand idly by in astonishment.

Not sure when we may be seeing these in the U.S., but this is definitely the type of product I wouldn’t be surprised to see on the showrooms of Design Within Reach or at least your local IKEA super-maze…

Link: DOC Sofa Bed