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Green “Transformer” Furniture Doubles Kitchen/Dining Space

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Here’s a couple of great ways to live and entertain guests in a very tiny tiny space, without feeling that your pots and pans are looming over you as you raise a toast with your guests.

Your kitchen is right there, but hidden away, disguised as just another item of well designed but blandly inconspicuous piece of furniture. Your eye just slides right over it, doesn’t it?

The Moove02 from Florida Smart Italian Design is a kitchen stove that slides out when you need to cook up the ravishing feast for your guests, but slides away when you all need to enjoy it in peace, even if that is just a few feet away.

But, of course, cooking up a feast also might mean leaving a bit of a mess in the sink. How great if a cooktop and a sink could also disappear out of sight too till the guests are gone.

That’s just what this unit does.  Moove 01 slides the sink cabinets down to completely obscure the view to the sink and the cooktop.

As the cabinets are auto lowered, first the faucet and the sink itself has sunk down into the lower cabinet, as you see here. (Presumably the plumbing is all flextube!) Once it is fully lowered the top cabinet completely closes off the cooking area.

Space-saving transformer” furniture like this is very green, and the economics are great too because it means that you can occupy less space comfortably. Whether you are trying to squeeze into a tiny home, a container home or a tiny apartment, these space saver solutions will really work to double your space by using it twice.

Source: Treehugger