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I've decided that we don't need to buy any living room furniture. We can construct it all out of our growing collection of enormous cardboard appliance boxes. Then I can paint it all in bright, cheery colors.

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If I actually did this, it would work out something like this:

I've made for you a sofa-beast!
A sofa bear! A sofa, 'least
that's what I like to think it be,
a sofa thing for you and me.

I've made for you a flexi-plane!
A table, some would say again,
but I know better, flexy-thing,
so wide and flat and tied with string.

I've made for you a storage chair,
it has two shelves, and colors rare,
it's cheery, bright, and glows at night!
It's comfortable, if you are light.

I've made for you a ruggish flop,
it's padded - you can lie on top -
and if they're clean, please rest your feet.
It's smooth and soft and wrapped in sheet.

I've made for you a matching suite
of furniture, of sorts, complete,
of cardboad boxes, things and stuff:
it could break if you are too rough.

And so enjoy your furnished room
ornamented, in costume,
'twas nearly free, these things to me,
and nearly tasteful, you'll agree.

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appliance boxes are still one of my favorite things...too bad Bri won't let me keep them and make pirate ships for the living room...

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You need more pirate ships in your living room!

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A living room isn't complete without at least one pirate ship.

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Is Peppermint Beach 2 bright and cheery, or is that off-limits now? :)

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Peppermint Beach 4 is certainly bright and cheery, so I expect the rest of the range to be so too! It's not off limits - it was merely unexpected! Perhaps what I need in my life is more Peppermint Beach.

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I like playing with cardboard boxes.

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Also, you could keep one and cut windows and doors for it, like a playhouse, and furnish it with mini-cardboard-box furniture!

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Long ago, my grandmother used to design professionally cardboard toys and houses to fold up and assemble for a toy company. She has good taste. If she were up for it, I could ask her to design all our furniture out of cardboard!

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colourful, yes ... sturdy? perhaps not!

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http://cardboardesign.com/furniture.htm

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I remember my friend

miseri had to make a chair from cardboard in one of his early architecture classes - the thing he made, which involved lots of accordion pleats, was remarkably strong, in fact strong enough to support at least 300 lbs of person on it. I don't know if it would have held up well under extended use, though.

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There are some very elegant and durable cardboard chairs in the world!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/recycled-cardboard-chairs-student-designers.php

Edited Date: 2008-10-07 10:27 pm (UTC)

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our cats like boxes. we haven't been allowed to throw out the carpet cleaner boxes yet.

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