Went to Ikea with my daughter the other day to pick up some stuff for her new living quarters in Eugene. They have an endless supply of stuff, some utilitarian, some fancy. There were two items that caught my eye. One is the tiny apartment models. I only saw one this time: 385 square feet. Very cool. How practical it would be is another matter. Most of my life, I've been looking for more space, but for the last few years I've come to realize we only use about half of the space we have. The living room is moth balled except for Christmas. The rec room just accumulates stuff, and the dining room table is used for folding laundry.
I didn't find anything about the model apartments on the web, but I did find this, which is a little scary.
The other thing was this:
The action is subtle, and hard to see in this video. Maybe a closeup, or a high speed video would show it better. What happens is that when you give the drawer a shove to close it, once it gets close enough, a mechanism slows it down until it's only open about a half an inch, and then it sucks it closed, silently. Pretty spiffy.
The drawers in our kitchen have rollers, so they go in and out easily, and there is a little ramp near the closed position that will pull the drawers closed, and hold them closed. However the only thing keeping them from making a big bang when they get shoved too hard are the little rubber bumpers stuck to the inside corners, and the glue that holds them is place is weak. They shift around, fall off, get lost. Anyway, even if the bumpers are there, you still get a thump if someone slams a drawer. Not possible with these new fangled ones.
And that's what you get for taking to me Ikea.
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