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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

conceptualizing a vardo - plumbing

a great place to start looking for things designed to take less space: travel
but i don't mean travel sized shampoo and toothpaste. if you want to make a compact well equipped travel vehicle, like a vardo-not-the-own-in-sweden, look to the history of the travel vehicle
TRAINS!

please take a look back in time with me at the pullman car

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pullman-fold-down-wash-basin-vanity-sink-railroad


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pullman-office-desk-and-sink.jpg




that's right - fold up/down sinks. i mean, if you have to make a teeny tiny itty bitty bathroom, why not move things out of the way when you don't need them? a sink that folds up into a few flat inches is ideal.

this reminds me - there's a row of cabooses here in town on the side of an embankment on unused track. currently they are graffito canvases but i wonder if i could ever find the owner and afford to buy one?.... *google* - huh, looks like there was an article about them just a couple of weeks ago and they are for sale

http://www.newsobserver.com/midtownraleighnews/story/1660789.html

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