Comments on: Icon Magazine’s Essay on “Fabbers, Dabblers and Microstars” http://no-retro.com/home/2009/07/01/icon-magazines-essay-on-fabbers-dabblers-and-microstars/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:36:00 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: brian t http://no-retro.com/home/2009/07/01/icon-magazines-essay-on-fabbers-dabblers-and-microstars/comment-page-1/#comment-345 brian t Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:11:52 +0000 http://no-retro.com/home/?p=392#comment-345 I'm studying Engineering as a mature student, while trying to live frugally, which means shared housing. I'm appalled by the lack of serviceability I see in so much interior design and fittings. Fitted carpets are my number one bugbear: it takes a professional to clean them properly, until then they just gather dirt in the areas you can't clean. Plastic and glass shower doors that gather crud in the slots, so you have to take the doors apart to clean them. Kitchens with floors you can't swab properly, fitted with appliances that invite rodents to move in behind them. Closets that are too shallow to take clothes on a hanger. If/When I get to furnish my own place, I have so many ideas for improving interior serviceability that I could possibly make a design business out of it! I’m studying Engineering as a mature student, while trying to live frugally, which means shared housing. I’m appalled by the lack of serviceability I see in so much interior design and fittings.

Fitted carpets are my number one bugbear: it takes a professional to clean them properly, until then they just gather dirt in the areas you can’t clean. Plastic and glass shower doors that gather crud in the slots, so you have to take the doors apart to clean them. Kitchens with floors you can’t swab properly, fitted with appliances that invite rodents to move in behind them. Closets that are too shallow to take clothes on a hanger. If/When I get to furnish my own place, I have so many ideas for improving interior serviceability that I could possibly make a design business out of it!

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