Hello everyone,
We are currently planning to build a single-family house with a kitchen adjacent to the living room. Between them, a wall is planned, where we would like to be able to remove or fold away the upper part depending on the situation to create an open kitchen (see attachments; it concerns the wall marked in blue and red – blue is fixed, red is meant to be flexible).
The wall is two meters wide and the room is 2.5 meters (8 feet 2 inches) high. The lower part of the wall, about 110 cm (43 inches) high, which corresponds to countertop height, should remain permanently in place. My initial idea was to install a TV lift inside the fixed lower section of the wall, covering it with drywall to create a retractable inner wall. However, these lifts only have a lift height of around 80 cm (31 inches), which is not enough. Also, the retractable part of the wall would need to be somewhat taller than the fixed part, which complicates things. I’m also uncertain about how precisely this lift would operate.
Does anyone have any creative ideas on how to realize this at reasonable cost? I’m open to entirely different approaches as well.
Thanks in advance!
We are currently planning to build a single-family house with a kitchen adjacent to the living room. Between them, a wall is planned, where we would like to be able to remove or fold away the upper part depending on the situation to create an open kitchen (see attachments; it concerns the wall marked in blue and red – blue is fixed, red is meant to be flexible).
The wall is two meters wide and the room is 2.5 meters (8 feet 2 inches) high. The lower part of the wall, about 110 cm (43 inches) high, which corresponds to countertop height, should remain permanently in place. My initial idea was to install a TV lift inside the fixed lower section of the wall, covering it with drywall to create a retractable inner wall. However, these lifts only have a lift height of around 80 cm (31 inches), which is not enough. Also, the retractable part of the wall would need to be somewhat taller than the fixed part, which complicates things. I’m also uncertain about how precisely this lift would operate.
Does anyone have any creative ideas on how to realize this at reasonable cost? I’m open to entirely different approaches as well.
Thanks in advance!
This is always a nice gimmick for guests who are attending the fondue evening for the first time (provided they are fans of Scotty beaming someone up).
The joke wears off quickly and is not worth the effort, thought, or cost. In reality, the device also makes rattling and crackling noises, not the smooth "whoosh" sound like in the movie ;-)
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The joke wears off quickly and is not worth the effort, thought, or cost. In reality, the device also makes rattling and crackling noises, not the smooth "whoosh" sound like in the movie ;-)
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
I just had the spontaneous idea of a kind of sliding door that can be moved up and down. There would be guide rails on the left and right at the bottom, possibly with a spring element so that the door is spring-loaded upwards. It would then need to be fixed at the top somehow. But it definitely wouldn’t be a wall, more like a door...
Otherwise, ask the local carpenter, who can probably make something custom by hand. The question is whether it’s worth it...
Otherwise, ask the local carpenter, who can probably make something custom by hand. The question is whether it’s worth it...
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emceinstein13 May 2017 02:14How is a 140cm (55 inches) high wall supposed to fit into 110cm (43 inches)?
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