Quote: (04-04-2013 10:11 AM)cardguy Wrote:
I want to live in an apartment like this. And I imagine it would be a third of the price of a comparable apartment of the same 'size'.
Have you ever slept on a
Murphy Bed? The springs that fold it back up make loud sprong sounds with every wiggle, all through the night. And when you get up to take a piss, it sprongs back up into the wall. So you have to pull it down, in the dark, while half-asleep in the middle of the night, to get back into bed. Meanwhile your pillow got catapulted who knows where and all the sheets followed gravity when your bed went on end.
It's fucking ridiculous.
Quote: (04-04-2013 10:11 AM)cardguy Wrote:
I imagine it would be a third of the price of a comparable apartment of the same 'size'.
Imagine away. The reality is all those moving systems go out of whack with use and need constant lubrication, repair, and maintenance. And when just one of those overlapping systems breaks, the whole space is unlivably fucked. "Oh sorry honey, we can't sleep in our bed tonight because the kitchen isn't folding back into the floor properly and we're waiting for the repairman to show up later next week to fix it..."
Much less raising an infant or small child in that space. Or even being drunk yourself. So much moving machinery and so many crushing hinges that are a landlord's nightmare and a liability lawsuit waiting to happen.
But everyone in San Francisco still talks about the Condor Club's automated piano that could be raised and lowered. The club staff would use it as a gimmick to get girls to fuck them on top of the piano after shows. Until the night
it went horribly, horribly wrong.