Murphy Beds

I want to build a murphy bed setup in my sons room. I love the idea of a murphy bed, that they can be put away for more space and that the mattress does not fold. I have been looking at different option of beds that are available. So far I have found a piston hinge system that is available from Rockler woodworking and hardware. I have also found a company called Murphy Bed Hardware. They offer bed packages and a DIY hinge system. Their hinge claims to be superior over the piston setup, which seems to make sense. They also offer install videos.

Murphy beds seems to come with a variety of options. Vertical mounting or horizontal mount. Basically which axis the bed pivots on. Vertically is what I would say is traditional. The bed pivots where you head board would b,e and long end of the bed comes down to make the bed.



For horizontal mounting the bed pivots off the wall from the side of the bed. This method seems to allow for a two bed configuration. So if you wanted to have a bunk bed configuration. This would work well.

Murphy Beds.com also has a nice site and good gallery images.

If you want to read about the history of the Murphy Bed and how William L Murphy invented it, read here.

I think I am going to come up with an Ikea Hack Murphy Bed system... I can't believe Ikea doesn't have a murphy bed system...
More later.

Fiesta Flowers

How cool are these colorful handmade flowers.
These are from Martha Stewart's web site. You can get the How To's for making them here. Cathy of California also sells vintage kits so make these here.

Skate-able Street Furniture

I was perusing a trend email I get and saw this article on a Industrial Design web site about furniture that is built to be skateboarded on. Jurjen Semeijn, designed these pieces for Dutch Design Week 2009. Well this rang a bell in my world. My son Nolan had a ramp in his living room for awhile and we have big half pipe in our backyard. Skateable furniture would definitely fit in my world. I think some pieces like these would be great at local parks or street scapes here in SoCal. This concepts embraces that skaters are going to skate it instead of putting skate stoppers all over things, make it Skate-able street art. I love the concrete sofa above, hope we see more of this.

Pantone 2010 Fall Colors

In case you hadn't heard Pantone's 2010 Fall Colors are out. You can download the report here.

I am loving, Endive, Lagoon and Oyster....

Pantone and Adobe also now have the colors available in a Color Palette for Illustrator you download that file here.

Glamour Living Room

Love this glamourous neutral living room from Z Gallerie. Looks so old Hollywood to me. And I just recovered my sofa in a material that looks very similar to the one used on these pieces.

Shapes of new decade

I am seeing a trend towards shapes like these mirrors for the new decade. I love these complex shapes. The feel Moroccan to me.




I also love this grouping of various sized round mirrors. Has a port hole effect.

Both are available at Viva Terra here.

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