the adventures of teapot the cat

Tilted Home

Posted on November 11th, 2005

There was a post recently about an artist that tries to make already stressful lives more stressful by inventing all sorts of weird things. One of these is a desk that has a built in conveyor belt system that dumps your stuff on the floor. This brought to mind an idea that I had a while ago.

I’m a pile maker. Meaning, I tend to leave stuff on tables, counter tops, shelves - probably just like a lot of people out there. Of course I don’t deal with the growing pile of stuff as it accumulates and before you know it, there’s a big heap of crap I don’t want to bother going through. And so I don’t bother, and it grows even more.

My idea is to make a home where most of the mess-gathering-surfaces are somewhat off kilter, tilted, slanted. Just enough so that if you put a phone bill on it, it would slide off onto the floor. If you tried to toss the clutter from your pockets onto the counter - hey presto! on the floor! All items would have to be put in their designated places (which would be flat of course -such as a drawer, filing cabinet, or closet) You could choose to keep certain areas flat (dinner table, coffee table, kitchen prep surfaces) or you could have special interactive plateware / cutlery / pots&pans etc that allow them to be used on the slanted surface (magnetic? interlocking? velcro?) The theory is that your home will stay much neater. Though I suppose instead of creating a crazy looking, custom built & expensive home like that, you could just clean your crap up every day. But who wants to do that - not me!

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