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The Staple Floor consists of a bottom layer of thin, durable wood, into which millions of staples have been fired.
The staples could either be flush with each other, to achieve that smooth gleaming look, or could overlap to provide extra grip when walking on them. Different coloured staples could
be used to create an intruiging pattern, or even a picture. The Master Stapler would have full control over the placement and arrangement of the staples, and of course the floors would be custom built only.
The Staple Floor - perfect for the rich and the stationery obsessed.
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I like it. An unexpected bonus is that you could pull a few up if you're running short on staples. |
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and if you started using too many. would you need to be
put on a staple diet? + |
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[+] - Purely because I think it would look very cool. |
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Because I'm not bored - or clever - enough to work it out myself, can anyone calculate how many staples would be needed to coat an entire room? Say 1cm staples with a 5x5m floor area? |
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For simplicities sake, let's say a staple is 1mm x 10mm - i.e. 10 staples per square cm. Your 5m x 5m area has 250,000sq cm and will therefore require 2,500,000 staples. |
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The nice thing about this idea is that over a period of years you could give your floor a designer finish purely by periodically raiding the office stationary cupboard. |
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I must add (on pain of scratching) that credit for this idea goes to younger sister Jen, who remarked before a game of monopoly "why can't we make the floor out of staples?" |
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[wag's], that's very dilbert. |
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It appears that this floor is not entirely stapled! |
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Ah. I was thinking the staples would be the other way up, and this would be the Dilbert version of walking on hot coals. |
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I would [Ra], but the majority of her ideas are based on giving clothes to farm animals. Perhaps a candidate for the Jnr Halfbakery? |
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What makes me think that this was inspired by a recent TV spot featuring a woman who had done her whole house with pencils? On that spot, she said she was "obsessed with office supplies" Coincidence? Hmmmm... |
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Nope, haven't seen that one - could you provide a link? |
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I can see where this would look pretty,
but mightn't it be a little painful to walk
on in bare feet? |
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Why? Am I missing something here? |
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If they screw up the spacing, that could pinch horribly. |
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[+] like a parquet floor for tiny things |
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This would be a thing of beauty, and I'd love it. I would make it chequerboard style, with blocks of staples at right angles to each other. Lovely on bare feet. |
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Would go nicely with a table I saw in an interiors mag last month which is a massive block of post-it notes, so you can scribble ideas down on the tabletop over coffee, take the top sheet of the table away and stick it on the boardroom wall. + |
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Hell, why not go the whole way and create a stationary-themed room? Protractor-placeholders anyone? |
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And the announcer says, "Staple your floor! Fun for the whole family!" |
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//this idea is not going anywhere// Nope, it's staying right here where it belongs. With all of it's buns. |
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I getcha, [bigsleep]. I hate it when I have to explain how clever I am, too. |
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