We've seen in-wall beds, desks, shoe shine stands and ironing boards, but this is the first time we've seen an entire dining set do the Murphy.
PocketTable.com is a carpentry shop in Ohio specializing in handmade cabinets, antique reproductions and restorations. But that's not why we're blogging it. Proprietor Pat McGeehan has gone online to sell two of his more universal problem-solving furniture designs: "Knock-Down Wardrobes" and the aforementioned (and pictured) "Pocket Table," the latter of which is a genius idea for small spaces.
Pocket Tables work a bit like pop-up books: the shutter-like doors of these customized wall cabinets (there are many design variations) open to reveal the folded version of a floor-standing table with two benches. A few tugs here and there and an entire dining set origami's out to comfortably seat five adults.
My husband and I looked at a place last year when we were thinking of buying. It was a VERY small one bedroom and it had one of these exact things built into the wall in the living area. I was more amused than enthralled, but I will say that the place was so small that I couldn't understand how this thing would really be functional. In order to have it fold out for eating purposes we'd likely have to shift ALL the other furniture in the room (whcih probably could only have held a very small loveseat and a little TV stand or something, did I mention it was small?). Funny to see it pop up here again.
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We had something very similar in my elementary school gym/cafeteria. Never thought of doing it in an apt!
(PS- Go Buckeyes!)
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