Creative Handicap Accessible Stairs Design

This is really cool looking but I don't know how safe it would be. I could just see someone not knowing these steps are different in the dark and hits the uneven slope or steps. Then someone in a wheel chair might not navigate the slope properly and end up going down the steps instead. The pattern is still really cool to look at. Ideally there would be a flood light to the left of this photos vantage point to shine an even light on the steps so they're visible at night.

On the other hand, consider this design in a high foot traffic area, with all the hustle and bustle of people walking up and down the stairs, then add in the wheel chairs and work trollies or anything that needs to use the flat surface, it could cause a problem and if just one person doesn't look before they go, they could be knocked down, with lots of people on the steps knocking others down, lots of people could be hurt.

Dog House Idea

Cool indoors dog house idea under the staircase.

Unusual Places In Your Home For Fish Tanks

No Room For An Aquarium? Think Again.

Cool but dangerous, you'd better not don't sit up & smash your head into it & that it doesn't break or leak! Just hope it doesn't break in the night--what a shock that would be--hopefully it's not a salt water tank with sharks.

Awesome Home Office

Two Story Office Space

Isn't this awesome? What a great use of space.

Camouflage

It's just an old couch isn't it, or is it?

Where's Waldo?

By Design?

Copper Pennies + Clear Resin = Beautiful Floor.
 
If you want to try this: Save this picture and go to your local Home Improvement store and ask them what type of Clear Resin would work the best and what kind of under-lament would be needed. In this picture they had a concrete floor to work with. Yes, it would be cheaper than the average floor, if you did the work yourself. The price, including the cost of the pennies would probably range from $2.50 to $3.50 a square foot. 


Using pennies would be cheaper than tiles, easier to work with, flush and level. As well as the finished floor surface looking fantastic.



While your considering redecoration, take a look at this creative storage space solution.

Using ceiling rafter in the garage is common practice for home owners. But installing a simple sliding rack onto the ceiling is a great idea. Replacing the conventional basement/garage storage method of piling boxes and storage containers, cramming far too many things into a closet, never to open it again in fear of a land slide.


Utilizing the unused ceiling space is a move in the right direction toward creative storage space solutions that our perpetually accumulating and hoarding society desperately needs.


But, is the right course of action to improve personal storage space practices? Wouldn't this just allow people to hoard even worse? 

Instead of having boxes stacked from the floor to the ceiling, is having them from the ceiling to the floor better in any way? It might even be worse because a ceiling can only support so much weight before a bolt comes loose and containers fall on someone. 


However, back to the bigger issue at hand, the majority of modern societies have developed into an ever consuming cluster of individuals. Some would call it capitalism, however capitalism is merely a small part of the greater picture.


There are many triggers and causes that lead individuals to accumulating an excess of possessions. Nature, nurture, psychological, biological, impulsive buying, special offers, fear of not having enough and so many more.


There are so many levels of degree to which, over accumulation, hoarding, obsession, etc. can be analyses, debated, discussed and repeated. Every possible contributing factor, psychological, sociological and anthropological can to be analyzed. 

In the end serious professional expertise is needed to gain a better understanding of why people simply, want more. As countless other questions raise controversy and debate. Contributions from many fields will be supported. But ultimately there will be no perfect answer, no solution, at best we can work towards managing both the physical problems of spacial restrictions and the psychological perplexity of our reach extending our grasp.

Cool Office Space

From the outside, the offices of San Francisco game company Three Rings Design look like any small game studio, but the building's bowels are leagues from ordinary. The company's loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The offices have an attacking octopus couch, a secret lounge hidden behind a bookcase, captain's quarters and a steampunk bike rack, plus a ton of other Victorian details. 

It wouldn't be much of a ship without a card game in the galley. There's a good chance that this deck of cards belongs to Three Rings' treasure trove of Puzzle Pirates goodies.

Photos courtesy of Because We Can