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Can you help me? Portable furniture again
I've posted here before but am still needing some
advice I will become and adult college student at age 48. as such I've gotten rid of EVERYTHING furniture wise that was big and bulky and impossible to move by myself. I'm now trying to gather furnishings that are "portable" in the sense that they can be folded up or disassembled into pieces that will easily fit into a compact car. All I really need is one general purpose table that will be used to study off of and even eat off. It must be light strong sturdy and like I said above break down for easy transport in a car by one person I've come across this company and the trestle table looks like it might work but its a UK company only and they cant ship out of the UK right now http://tinyurl.com/qnd9s So any suggestions on furnishings that meet my parameters? |
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Chris Friesen wrote:
Have you considered Ikea? It's often flimsy but they do have some solid wood pieces. Check out the "table tops & legs" section of their website. yeah but I need something that can really pack up well..... you know? maybe fold up. maybe disassemble into some parts that are easily carried |
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| I'm now trying to gather furnishings that are | "portable" in the sense that they can be folded up or | disassembled into pieces that will easily fit into a | compact car. | | All I really need is one general purpose table that | will be used to study off of and even eat off. It must | be light strong sturdy and like I said above break down | for easy transport in a car by one person On my last consulting stint I built dining, coffee, and end tables using essentially the same design using "I-beam" trestles (2x4 top and bottom, 2x6 center upright) with a single longitudinal stringer using bed-rail hooks to attach the stringer to the trestles. An inexpensive (undrilled) door worked for the tops. I have one of the trestles in the shop and will try to remember to take a photo today. If you're cramped for space in your student digs, a door across the tops of a pair of 27"-high bookcases makes a spacious desk with some convient stowage space - and it's fairly easy to build KD bookcases using 1x12 boards, a 1/4" ply back, and dowel nuts. -- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto |
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"Morris Dovey" wrote:
If you're cramped for space in your student digs, a door across the tops of a pair of 27"-high bookcases makes a spacious desk yeah but then I have to haul the file cabinets....so that doesn't work well for me either |
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| "Morris Dovey" wrote: | || If you're cramped for space in your student digs, a door across the || tops of a pair of 27"-high bookcases makes a spacious desk | | yeah but then I have to haul the file cabinets....so | that doesn't work well for me either No - _not_ file cabinets. Short knock-down bookcases. Sheesh! I just posted trestle photos to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (I didn't forget.) -- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto |
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"Morris Dovey" wrote:
On my last consulting stint I built dining, coffee, and end tables using essentially the same design using "I-beam" trestles (2x4 top and bottom, 2x6 center upright) with a single longitudinal stringer using bed-rail hooks to attach the stringer to the trestles. An inexpensive (undrilled) door worked for the tops. I have one of the trestles in the shop and will try to remember to take a photo today. Have link to a picture of this? |
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| "Morris Dovey" wrote: | || On my last consulting stint I built dining, coffee, and end tables || using essentially the same design using "I-beam" trestles (2x4 top || and bottom, 2x6 center upright) with a single longitudinal || stringer using bed-rail hooks to attach the stringer to the || trestles. An inexpensive (undrilled) door worked for the tops. I || have one of the trestles in the shop and will try to remember to || take a photo today. | | Have link to a picture of this? Nope; but have re-posted a photo to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking. If you don't have access to binaries, send me an e-mail address and I'll send a copy by return mail. -- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto |
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Are you willing to build it? This guy made a nice desk and dresser
that come apart: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/built/practical.html Mike |
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| Are you willing to build it? This guy made a nice desk and dresser | that come apart: | http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/built/practical.html Sure - but the whole point of telling the story and posting the photo was to show anyone who liked the approach how to do it for themselves. My homemate needed a light table for one of her quilting projects and I used that same basic design to knock out a transformable end table (which was to be thrown out when no longer needed; but somehow wasn't) - I'll grab a shot of that, since it's handy, and post that to abpw. The light table will probably require a Sawzall to disassemble. :-) -- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto |
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"Morris Dovey" wrote:
Nope; but have re-posted a photo to news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking. If you don't have access to binaries, send me an e-mail address and I'll send a copy by return mail. Sorry no binary access send to: john63401 atatatatat yahoo yahoo dot dot com com |
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couldn't resist, sorry, but look at www.fedexfurniture.com
wrote in message ... I've posted here before but am still needing some advice I will become and adult college student at age 48. as such I've gotten rid of EVERYTHING furniture wise that was big and bulky and impossible to move by myself. I'm now trying to gather furnishings that are "portable" in the sense that they can be folded up or disassembled into pieces that will easily fit into a compact car. All I really need is one general purpose table that will be used to study off of and even eat off. It must be light strong sturdy and like I said above break down for easy transport in a car by one person I've come across this company and the trestle table looks like it might work but its a UK company only and they cant ship out of the UK right now http://tinyurl.com/qnd9s So any suggestions on furnishings that meet my parameters? |
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:58:16 -0500, wrote:
I've posted here before but am still needing some advice I will become and adult college student at age 48. as such I've gotten rid of EVERYTHING furniture wise that was big and bulky and impossible to move by myself. I'm now trying to gather furnishings that are "portable" in the sense that they can be folded up or disassembled into pieces that will easily fit into a compact car. Target had a line of stuff a while back that came in thin boxes that would easily fit into a car- there were tables and chairs that were made of sheets of plywood that fit together with slots and tabs, and looked like they'd take less than ten minutes to put together or take apart without tools, and they were even kind of interesting to look at. I don't remember the name of the product (though I do recall it having a Scandinavian name), but I do recall the concepts involved fairly clearly- if you have a valid e-mail address to post to the group, I'd be willing to help you make up some plans or manufacture and ship them for you. If you want to keep your e-mail off the group, you can contact me at . I fiugre I could make and ship them in the US for a similar or lower price than the link you posted, depending on your specs. All I really need is one general purpose table that will be used to study off of and even eat off. It must be light strong sturdy and like I said above break down for easy transport in a car by one person I've come across this company and the trestle table looks like it might work but its a UK company only and they cant ship out of the UK right now http://tinyurl.com/qnd9s So any suggestions on furnishings that meet my parameters? |
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