Wow! A math meme! Is this the 3d version of the unsolved moving sofa problem?
It's a "Friend's" meme.
You haven't been doomscrolling enough lately.
It's also mentioned on the wiki page, I'm astonished it could be solved finally, lets wait for the reviews!
A quick image search for "telephone shaped" furniture...
Damn, I am a math graduate and somehow I do not know problems like this
Is this Dirk Gently's house?
I have a reservation at Esprit de Escalaire for 3 weeks ago if you're free.
Dirk Digglers house
Reminds me of my own hilarious large furniture movements. Someone bought a love seat for the home I reside in, didn't bother measuring anything, and asked me to retrieve it from the store. A very kind gentleman was paid to bring it from the store to the outside of the house. I took one look at the love seat, one look at the door, and asked him to kindly leave because he didn't want to be any part of the process of getting it inside.
I ultimately took a circular saw to the back of the love seat and later reattached it and stapled the fabric back on.
Omigod. That's extreme.
It had a weird stylistic hump in the center that was the major cause of the problem. I was fully aware upon a handful of measurements that there wasn't even a chance it was going to fit. My cut was only enough of the back to get it through the door. I realized upon rereading I made it sound like I removed the whole thing.
Even now, 5 years later you can't tell it was operated on unless you take a good look at the back of it.
...(Homeowner) Luke says he refused to sign the delivery forms after it was suggested he cut off his bannisters...
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That customer sounds insufferable. Might well be the fault of the company but him going on about how much his house cost (and the sofa) makes him sound like a right tosspot.
PIVOT!!!!
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!
PIVEHHHHHHT
"Hey Ross, when you were yelling 'piv-AT piv-AT,' what did you mean?"
This is why it can be easy to find a free piano. You can take it if you can take it.
Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you'll take it out of someone's house they'll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.
When moving into our house years ago I got our couch stuck in the stairs. I had to sawzall it into 3 pieces to get it out and take it to the dump
Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn't remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, "what the actually FUCK!?" there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, "surprise!"
She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.
There is a pullout bed in that couch, which makes this even more difficult because it is heavier, pops open when tipped, and will put you in the hospital.
I love older homes because they were built to last.
I hate them because you can't move anything anywhere without a saw.
Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes weren’t repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasn’t uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.
In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.
... and no 90º angle is actually 90º
I feel this one in my soul.
Per the article posted in the comments, this is a new-build. In the UK, 90% of them are built in the same style that uses a lot of traditional features.
I do agree with the old homes being awkward though. Our staircase is straight, but narrow and very steep. The house itself was probably well built, but the decades of renovations made to it are not necessarily well done. We've found that we've had to strip rooms down to the brick and dirt floor to do it properly.
We had to literally take our stairs apart to get our bed upstairs. Convenient!
We ultimately had to not use the upstairs for our bedroom because a queen sized bed can't fit up the stairs. We use the largest main floor room as our bedroom (which inconveniently one has to walk through that room to get to the stairs)
It's pretty clear that the stuff people choose to have in their homes today is different from the stuff people chose to have in their homes a century ago
The amount of furniture moving we do today is pretty insane. I kind of hate it.
One more step in this direction and suddenly even kitchen cabinets are separate pieces, carried up and down and in and out and around tight corners. No longer attached to the wall. Just another freestanding cabinet, there in the kitchen, with some dust, two coins, a random piece from a toy and a few dead bugs behind it. So sometimes you'll feel like you have to pull the whole thing away from the wall and clean behind it. And you'll have to remove all the dishes first, becouse the MDF panels and their connections are not strong enough to witstand all that weight while being pulled and twisted and turned. And even then you'll notice a bit more wobble than last time. So maybe you'll cut a rough match with the baseboard and screw it into the wall when you put it back. Or maybe you won't, either way it still won't be good.
When you end up moving a few years later, depending on your financial situation, you'll remove the terrible cabinet snd either toss it or bring the poorly built half-mangled half-mess still technically usable thing to the new apartment. An apartment someone else just pulled a kitchen cabinet and everything else out of. And it was hard and annoying for them, too. And just like you, they're not happy either.
The amount of furniture moving we do today is pretty insane. I kind of hate it.
The fact is, the average person owns so much more now than they did at any other point in history. In the 19th century the average American home was about 400-800 sq feet with Victorian mansions pushing 2000 sq feet (also worth noting that the concept of a bedroom is only about 200 years old, and the option of kids not sharing rooms is only about 50 years old)
I'd also argue that housing becoming a commodity is also a factor. With rapidly increasing rents, rental properties as an investment and non-present landlords one is forced to move in order to maintain their lifestyle far more frequently than they should
Honestly in this historical context, I feel like there's some wisdom to the small home and minimalism movements, primarily in that it returns to a more sustainable lifestyle in our urban modern lives
My grandpa got a pool table in his basement in a very similar stair condition. To this day, I have no idea how beyond the fact that he had a come along tied to a 4x4 across the basement door. We just left it down there when we sold the house.
I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.
We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.
We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.
There is plenty of room to rotate it over the newel.
Do a barrel roll!
It always felt like something was missing from the stairs. This wasn't it, but it was a good try.
Looks to me like they were trying to get it down narrow stairs into a finished basement. I've been in the same situation many a time. This is solvable, though still a pain in the ass even when you get it just right.
Just take the feet off. It'll go.
I can hear that picture
This looks a lot like a house i lived in during my studies. We had to known down the rail... :))
ETA: i mean it REALLY looks like the same staircase, including the little door.
I want the American version of this couch!
I bet the owner went back in time and opened a door to help move the sofa and then closed it, the door vanished and now the sofa is stuck in an impossible position.
Welp, I guess we're never going upstairs again.
Pivot table, or pivot couch?
Anybody's got Dirk Gently's number?
