First thing I thought of when I saw that is “Hey, that’s just Kallax!”
My girlfriend and I have just moved into a new home and we’re decorating the living room. It’s still a work in progress, but we’ve painted the wall and put up some Kallax!
There’s going to be some drawers and doors and stuff, but this is what it looks like so far ❤️
Edit: for those of you eagle eyed enough to think “wtf even is that in the picture?” I can explain. It’s a pokéball drinks coaster made from hammer beads!
Very nice! I’m jealous of having that much storage space around the TV.
I like that flower vase. It looks like a radish.
It’s quite clever until you stub your toe on it at 4am.
You just described furniture. And doors. And pets. And cars. And bridges. And…
Do you often stub your toe on bridges at four in the morning?
Would it hurt anymore than a normal bedside table though?
Yes
Wood might flex a bit and absorb the impact, making it hurt a bit less. Concrete won’t.
How many months ago do you figure he dropped that pen back there
day he put the side “table” in for sure
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.
Everyone has steel toed slippers, right?
Imagine building a whole building with these cursed blocks
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 had a your balcony nuked from space right?
Right?
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!
The zyn hanging on the wall says everything I need to know about this person.
And multiple cans on a Velcro strip as if immediate and redundant access to them was necessary.
Zyn people sleep with zyn inside them. Redundant access is necessary
What though?
Everything.
I expect this will damage the flooring.
It’ll scratch the shit out of anything you put on top of it, too. Or in the little cubby holes.
Do your night stands like dance around and shit? If so they may be too close to your bed homie. Looks like it’s against the wall, and there is approximately 240 lbs of cinder blocks. I think it’s fine as long as you set them down and pick them up gently.
Depending on the quality of that vinyl flooring, it could cause permanent depressions. That’s 50 lbs of cement versus a couple pounds for a wood nightstand.
There is also a risk with spills which would be drawn under the blocks and cause moisture to be trapped.
I would be far less concerned if there was carpet involved.
Looks sturdy
This guys a damn genius
Amazing brutalist aesthetic
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.
I scraped my knuckles just looking at that
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.
Just jealous because I didn’t need $40k to furnish my home.
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!
