This used to be an office hopper. The holes have been cut to make the top lighter and easier to handle.
Here's another view of bench where you can see how the door opens. This could be used for a children's toy chest or for your own home.
This was made by attaching four slabs that were previously legs for desks and tables. The holes were originally for feeding wires and cables through. Now, although it's heavy, it could be a pedastal or, flipped 90 degrees, could be the beginning of stairs or wall dividers.
Previously an office hopper, this has been lightened and painted, making it suitable for home use. It fits onto any standard shelf bracket from your local Home Depot and opens like the bench pictured above.
We're working on a making a home furniture system out of these office furniture systems. Here's Erik sitting on the the beginnings of a daybed.
In case you were distracted by Erik, here is the daybed without him, from a flattering angle which reveals it to also be a bench in disguise.
We decided to draw detailed pictures of some of the most common furniture components. This one includes extruded borders for table legs and the adjustable legs from the bottoms of panels. Before long, we will have our entire sketchbook posted, so visit often.
Erik's roommate, Rob Funderburk, was commissioned to beautify a panel and has done so with great success and a fine sense of office furniture politics.
It's even reversible.
One of the most helpful uses we have found for these items involved making them into presentation materials for our midterm review.
If anyone can tell us what this is, or what it could be for, they will win a very desirable prize (most likely made of office furniture).
You can even make your own pack of woodland animals with just a pair of wire clippers, the aluminum interior of an office panel and some paint. See these animals in their natural habitat.
