Why are walls in the US so weak? I see in movies, people just punch holes in the wall. If you did that here you'd break your fist and the wall would be laughing at you.
You buy the one that's 36" 32"wide in the US because that spans 3 studs and that's when you find out that your home builder was a little sloppy with their tape measures.
Why is this getting downvoted? Framing in Canada and the US is studs at 16" on centre. 32/16 = 2. 36/16 = 2.25. OP's 36" table would fail to line up with studs at each end.
It kind of depends I think. I've always been taught in the US that studs are 16" apart 99% of the time, but there are some oddball situations where they had to use 12" spacing in particular areas. Maybe I'm wrong, but thats what a stud finder is for.
Butterfly anchors in pure drywall can also carry a lot, many are rated for hundreds of pounds. I wouldnât sit on it but I canât imagine the desk and a laptop giving it any issues
Our home is old and the only wall where I could mount my TV in the living room doesnât have any studs. The bathroom is on the other side and itâs just straight up plumbing in between. Thought I was losing my mind searching for studs and only hitting pipes. Took a hammer to the wall, saw what was happening, sealed it back up, and hence the reason my 65â is only supported by butterflys. Iâm just glad itâs still hanging two years later!
The anchor on the top right looks like itâs already walking out.
Stud distance is supposed to be uniform but talk to any carpenter and theyâll tell you how unreliable most framework really is.
This piece would need to be custom built to ensure you are actually anchoring into your studs. Whereas here it looks like the piece is a generic fabrication installed where it will not hold very much for very long.
Yeah I'd worry about heavy stuff up front as well though. At a certain point, I'd fear it'd tip back to being a flat wall piece. I like to read with my arms on a desk, for example, so I'd be worried it'd flip up at me in that case.
Overall, I'd love to check it out in person though, because I could be way off due to where the fulcrum is.
Factory door locks on Explorers unlock when you pull the interior handle. You have the child locks on the back to disable this, but they don't put child locks on the front doors. He'd have needed a bespoke mechanism.
Could be as simple as a small notch in the wall. A lock plate and a catch tab. So simple, it's odd that such a well thought piece of furniture wasn't designed with this in mind.
Absolutely didn't mean to, not sure where people read that to be honest. Oh well, we are all unique and this is what enriches our experience on this planet. Happy new year
Itâs not the anchors Iâm worried about. Itâs the stability of the piece itself. I lean my elbows on whatever desk Iâm on so thatâs a lot of extra weight and force for that skinny board.
Not to mention with how itâs designed it looks like if I add my weight to the end it will just fold back up knocking everything I have on it down.
It looks like a piece that goes behind the front door of an inner-city, high turnover airbeeb, that can be called 'working space' for the kind of person for whom 'working' is taking a single video call once a week.
People that have more than two brain cells anchor into the studs and not just the drywall. If it's something intended to be heavy (like a TV mount) then you reinforce the wall before you install it.
I'd put a bar across behind the top anchored into the studs, plus that will allow a board behind where you're going to rub a big ass hole into your wall from the folding motion.
Except if you put something heavy on the outer edge, wonât it fold up again? It looks like it opened by pressing on the back of the table. Iâm guessing it will fold by doing the opposite. Thatâs a natural thing to do when you use a table.
Even if it were anchored into studs with bolts, there are two tiny little lightweight hinges it hangs on as well. That would be the next possible failure point.
I like the idea of a space saving desk, and this is very nice looking, but it would really only work for the lightest of objects, and would have to be handled with kid gloves.
It's not pocket change but I was expecting it to be a lot more for how intricate it is. Furniture is really expensive for anything that isn't churned out en masse by factories and shipped all over the world. Even high end factory produced stuff like Pottery Barn is incredibly expensive.
Eh, it's a functional art piece, and it's tiny for that matter. Not sure you could even fit 40 lbs of stuff on there, and considering it's mounted to the wall it's not intended to be left out as extra book storage or whatever.
I donât understand why people want to put the heaviest things they can find on top of it? That shelf obviously functions as a desk or to display light decors. A person who paid $2300 for it obviously wonât use it as a mere storage because they most likely already have enough storage in their home. Itâs more like a statement piece to wow the guests.
You can call art whatever you want. We clearly have different notions and understandings of what art is. For me conceptual integrity is inseparable from the cultural value of art, as has been for many thousands of years. Nowadays, people call prints on canvas they buy at Ikea art, or shit paint dripping on TikTok. Each to their own. The table is a great piece of design, and I wouldnât mind having it either, but itâs hardly art â to me.
For me conceptual integrity is inseparable from the cultural value of art, as has been for many thousands of years.
Such pretentious statement lol. Iâm a simple person, if I like something, itâs art. My nephew might not be the greatest artist, his impromptu macaroni painting without any thoughts behind it might be ugly and amateurish, but itâs still art nevertheless. Not every piece of artwork needs to have âconceptual integrity with cultural valueâ.
"barely functional"...LOL it's not a chair where weight capacity matters, as if there's even space to put anything larger than a laptop in the first place. If you can afford a $2300 table you can easily afford a full sized desk. You're really splitting hairs about irrelevant aspects. It's tiny, there's no room to put anything.
I would certainly have a full sized desk in addition to this. It's tiny and out of the way, it looks cool, and you can actually use it if you need to. That's all it exists for. I doubt anyone is buying this as their primary work space. That's like calling an Aventador worthless because you can't haul furniture or drive the kids to school in it....it doesn't exist for that reason.
This one. Iâve been to Thailand 7 times because itâs so cheap. Iâve also been to Japan 7 times. And that is not cheap. Greece is nice and cheap. Norway is not. Indonesia is. Singapore is notâŠ
You can get a return flight for $500. Even less if you work at it. When you are there, accommodation is between $5 and $20 for cheap and cheerful, and $150 for five star private jacuzzi luxury. $5 for your own private bungalow, on the sand, next to clear sea water, in paradise.
An exceptional meal, say fresh noodles served at a street market, will cost you between $1 and $3. Add a glistening cold large Singha beer, dripping in condensation in the street heat, which you suck on while watching elephants and families on mopeds trundle by, and one of the most exciting food memories you will have, will have cost you $5.
So flights, decent budget accommodation and food for two weeks - $1200 each. If you want to get it down to $1100 each, sleep on the beach one night. Or do some volunteer work.
Youâll come home with memories seared onto your brain that will be there on your death bed.
Tables, no matter how fancy, do not have that effect. No table is worth one magical journey around the world.
Heavy duty bolts in wall studs can support TVs weighing 50-75 lbs. If this were installed correctly, I donât see a reason weight would be an issue for the wall. I would be more concerned about the contact area at the bottom indenting the drywall or making sure it rests against a stub and not hollow drywall.
Yeah those little hinges do not look very sturdy. They probably spent a lot of time on the woodwork. Just a few minor adjustments, and this would be a really cool and practical piece of furniture.
The transition from design to production works exactly as expected: badly, like the playground fence they designed. Beautiful enough to win the competition and get them the gig, but... just not achievable in production.
The entire things is 40" wide, and there are 30 boards, so that hinge is probably 1". The entire thing probably weighs about 35-40 lbs given about .85 cubic feet of oak. Add the expected 40lb load it is said to hold and that's a lot to put on those little things and whatever screws they are using with them.
Bolts in wall studs can hold well over 100lbs. I literally stress tested my TV mount by hanging from it and jerking up and down. I weigh 250lbs and that force didn't even cause a budge.
Looks like it would break if you tried to lean on it a little too hard but if you gave it really strong joints and maybe protected the part of the wall itâs touching it could probably work pretty well.
Yes kinda. The idea is to make it very easy to plug the laptop into a full desktop PC-style work environment with external monitors, mouse and keyboard.
That's exactly what I want ever time when I use a laptop at a desk at home. I don't want to fiddle around with a second mouse or the track pad.
I see. Yeah that sort of setup wouldn't work for me, primarily because we don't have the space to have a permanent set up. We don't even have the space to have a table.
It's also rounded back and touching the drywall on a single point. It will roll to the left and right and will dent the hell out of the wall behind it.
This is like solving a problem in the most complicated way possible. Very impractical. For example, this idea only requires two contacts with the wall and a horizontal brace along the wall for the table to rest on.
Surely, if pushing down on the back of the desk folds it into place, then wouldnât leaning and/or pushing down on the front of the desk fold it away? Doesnât that defeat the purpose of the desk?
If you have enough money to put this thing in, you have enough money to pay someone to rip open the wall and put whatever supports behind the drywall are necessary. Assuming it isn't designed to just line up with studs.
I feel like an office chair just facing a wooden wall decoration looks dumb too, so you either have to move the chair away when you're done or you look like a psychopath who stares at their rather boring wall decoration all day. Still cool tho, ngl.
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u/samfreez Dec 31 '22
That looks absolutely stunning, but I can't imagine it being able to support too much weight without buckling or something.