Anyone remember the scene in the somewhat forgettable movie “Book Of Eli” where Eli is holed up in a house with an elderly couple and when the house comes under attack they flip back the cushions on the sofa to reveal a cache of weapons? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Ok, here’s some help.
Remember it now? I recall reading, years ago, about some guy that bought a storage unit at auction, found a crappy sofa inside and figured he’s reupholster it. Ripped it apart and found a couple HK-91′s and other goodies hidden inside it. I suppose if you think about it, a sofa isn’t a bad place to hide things. If you disregard the ‘hide’ aspect, it’s certainly an interesting place to store things. (The difference between hide and store being that you hide what you dont want found, you store what you dont care if people find.)
Anyway…..
Someone was generous enough to send me a link to a webpage about how to make a ‘storage’ sofa and I figured I’d post it for the rest of the class to share. Admittedly, it isnt my style of furniture, I had enough of sleeping on foam pad mattresses when I was at college, but the design can certainly be tweaked to give it a more ‘traditional’ sofa look. I suppose if you wanted to get all secret-squirrel on it you could incorporate some sort of hidden latching/locking method so that if anyone suspected anything they would find the whole thing to seem solid when they tried to open it up.
Cool pictorial, cool idea, cool potential.
sure is cool! not as cool as our storage bed – did you ever see this post about our monster bed that we built?
http://framboisemanor.blogspot.ca/2012/04/update-on-sci-and-mars.html?showComment=1335740702645#c94221143097035226
it is 9ft wide and 7ft long with 6 compartments underneath that are 12 inches high, 14 inches wide and 7ft long – you wouldn’t believe what we “hide” under there. teehee. don’t tell anyone eh?
your friend,
kymber
Yeah, I saw that. For some reason Im having trouble posting comments at your blog, so although you may not see me there I am reading it.
no probs buddy – i read all of your posts but only comment when i have something to add. what kind of probs are you having? is there something i can do to fix it?
your friend,
kymber
Not a big deal. When I read the post and hit comments, it loads the page with all the comments, briefly shows a dialog box to enter comments, then immediately reloads the page but does not give me a dialog box to enter a comment into.
There was a movie I saw as a kid… I can’t remember the name. Wanna say: “The 12 Chairs” or something like that. The premise was that the owner of the chairs had sewed a treasure of gold (or diamonds? I can’t remember) into the upholstery of one of the 12 chairs. The owner was later killed, and the 12 chairs were sold individually.
I guess one sofa wouldn’t have been quite as interesting?
Never mind. Just found it:
“A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066495/plotsummary
That is very cool, beats throwing a blanket over 16 gallon buckets and calling it a table, lol.
Sorry that this is off topic, Today is “Victims of Communisim Day”. Please remember your brothers and sisters in your prayers, such as the people of North Korea and Cuba.
This reminds me of doing the same thing with a car or truck seat. I’ve seen it in movies about street racing…they’ll flip the seat forward and inside will be a space where they put stuff. I think in one of the “Fast and Furious” movies they had nitrous bottles in there. I’ve always thought it would be an interesting idea to explore. Get a couple seats from a junk hard and experiment.