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Showing posts with label Closet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Closet. Show all posts
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Replace the Board Games in Your Closet with Tablet and Online Versions
We're living in the age of the small-space dwellers' dreams. Nearly every collection a person could want to hold onto — files, books, photos, music — can be whittled down to a digital version that's only as large as the device it's kept on. Here's our newest plan: replace some of our board games with tablet versions.
If you want to make a little room in your hall closet, consider replacing a few of those bulky game boxes with tablet or online versions. Most games' digital counterparts are just as easy and fun for a pair or family to play, and they take up far less space in your home.
I recently decided to take the plunge and order the $6.99 Ticket to Ride app for my iPad from the iTunes App Store. Ticket to Ride is a popular game in my house, but clearing space on the table and dragging out the game and all of its little pieces was getting annoying. Now, we just start up the app. By passing the iPad back and forth between players, we're getting nearly the same game experience, plus we were able to sell off our old game board.
Of course, not all games have app versions, and even fewer of those games are able to translate well to tablet or online play (for instance, we still like to keep party games like Apples to Apples in "hard copy"). It worked for us and our favorite Sunday-night game, but you should check out your own game closet to see if you can save space by going digital.
MORE GAMES FROM APARTMENT THERAPY:
• Our Current Favorite Social "Board" Games
• After Dinner: Best Party Games
• After Dinner Fun: Board Games for the Holidays
• 10 Always-Entertaining Party Games
• Electronic Updated Board Gmes: Awesome or Awful?
(Images: Flickr user Patrick Q, Ticket to Ride for iPad)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Before & After: Busting Out a New Closet Life in the Fun Lane
Getting the most out of a small bedroom closet can be a challenge in spatial recognition akin to playing a game of Tetris. So what if you discovered that you could expand your small closet to create a big, walk-in with enough room for even the most avid shoe buyer's collection?
I am stuck with one small closet that I share with my husband so when I saw this post detailing the expansion of a closet over at Life in the Fun Lane I was insanely jealous! That is, I was jealous of the amount of space they gained ... but not of the amount of time and work that went into the project.
It all started simply enough for Molly and Sean. Their original plan for this bedroom closet was to install hardwood flooring and reconfigure the hanging bars and call it a day. Then, Sean discovered that there was wasted space behind the closet and in the blink of an eye the expansion project began. As you can see in the rendering below, they couple tripled the amount of closet space in their bedroom.
As insanely jealous as I am over the amount of space in their new closet, I do not envy the work. Not surprisingly, the project kicked up a lot of dust. And then there was the little matter of falling through the fall and into the kitchen! Eek!
Check out the full posts about this closet expansion, including a detailed description of all the work, over at Life in the Fun Lane: Part 1 and Part 2.
Images: Life in the Fun Lane
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