Comments on: DIY apartment furniture

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:31:48 +0000

Kris, I’m absolutely blown away. For years I’ve complained about not having enough space to have a shop where I could build stuff, but obviously, I have NO excuse after seeing all you’ve done. Your creations are so thoughtful, intuitive, and useful. The storage in the floor and those dent things to pick up the panels – brilliant. If you didn’t provide us with such awesome music I would have said you missed you calling. Thanks for the inspiration! Great, great post!

By: Luis Alfonso

Luis Alfonso — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:10:32 +0000

Great post, This is what i’ve been looking over the internet. I’ve moving around every year since 6 years ago and is always the same problem, temporal fixtures, furniture limitations etc… I’ve lost the deposit many times for making holes and gluing things…

Your post gave me lots of ideas… i’d encourage you to develop it, i don’t know if there is a community of this kind or if you know anyone… but you could expand it, like me, is the problem of many “nomads” around the world.

Please, if you have any information, links, photos, recomendations etc etc… i’ll apreaciate it.

… and keep on!

see ya

By: Futons

Futons — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:53:57 +0000

Wow! this is ingenius. I love it and it looks great too. I lived in Europe for a while and the appartments there can be really small too, especially for a family. I love what you’ve done. It’s such an efficient use of space and resources.

By: kris

kris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:56 +0000

Thanks so much, Jamie! It’s looking like the kitchen bowl shelf design might make it into the dream home, so I’ll get to build it with nice materials and attention to detail. In that design, I’m going to try and make it so one can put wet bowls in the rack and the drips don’t fall on other bowls. Like the current design, the bowls will be angled a bit so the back lip is lowest. Also like the current design, the smallest bowls will be on bottom and the largest on top. But in the new version, I’m going to make some kind of stop at the back of each shelf so that the back lip of the upper bowls will overhang the lower bowls.

If you build anything, please send us pictures!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:26:59 +0000

I just stumbled upon this site, and this stuff is amazing! I can’t wait to try out building an interior frame, which is a genius idea. It’s blowing my mind right now, just looking at the pictures. I especially like the kitchen shelving units in the Torrance apartment. Very clever.

By: noze

noze — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:20:05 +0000

awesome! thanks for posting this for all. Just moved into a small apartment after living in a big home with a garden and boy do I need these tips and info. Thanks!!!

By: kris

kris — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:34:20 +0000

Hiro, your first comment! It’s been fun to do the designs with you thus far. And for the dream home, gambarimashou! In preparing for the dream home, I need to get rid of a lot of stuff (as I’m sure you know). Everything you own would fit in a suitcase but I’ve got boxes and boxes. The problem is that it’s all stuff that was headed for the landfill. I’ve still got about 50 network cards from the JCI computers that were recycled. I suppose they *might* come in handy… someday… for something? I don’t have the heart to just junk them. Help!

By: hiro

hiro — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:27:28 +0000

Kuri, you always amaze me! I’m always comfortable living in the world you’ve created. It’s so difficult to stay away from the couch. “Yaba Kauchi” Also thank you for making kitchen efficiently customized for me all the time. I can’t tell you enough how much i enjoy my life in your rooms! I can’t wait to have our dream mobile home in the future!

By: Brandon Martin

Brandon Martin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:59:13 +0000

Great post. These are the most interesting and diverse blog postings I’ve seen from a musical performance group. You’ve got Heather and I dreaming about some gentle tenant improvements of our own. I think the in-floor storage idea is endlessly cool and she wants a desk with a special ramp and cat perch built-in.

By: patrick graham

patrick graham — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:55:05 +0000

great stuff Kris.
as someone who is a native of the land which proudly puts forward the noble Beaver as a national symbol, truly i believe that you deserve the Order of Canada.
Here at home, the beaver is well-acknowledged for its remarkable use of wood.
Proudly, you can stand alongside our national animal, standing tall as a friend to the beaver.
Good on you!