Flat pack classroom and office furniture

Dur­ing the last month, I’ve watched fac­ulty and staff mov­ing great quan­ti­ties of fur­ni­ture between class­rooms and offices. It’s a sum­mer rit­ual at HPU.

We work and live on an island, so ship­ping pre-assembled fur­ni­ture to our cam­pus can be expensive.

There are sev­eral sites with inter­est­ing col­lec­tions of eco­nom­i­cal yet attrac­tive flat pack fur­ni­ture. These designs are much eas­ier to ship to Hawaii in bulk than com­pa­ra­ble pre-assembled furniture.

Here’s two YouTube videos with some inter­est­ing ideas in flat pack furniture.

• Tree­hug­ger Picks: Flat pack Furniture
• More Cre­ative Fur­ni­ture for Cramped Urban Liv­ing: 20 Pieces of Inge­nious ‘Flat Pack’ Furniture

Here’s are 2 card­board class­room desks that were designed by stu­dents at the Rhode Island School of Design. The spe­cific dimen­sions of this card­board chair, com­plete with a func­tional desk, are avail­able at the YouTube page for the first video called Amaz­ing Card­board Chair Design Unfold­ing RISD.

This next video shows the assem­bly process for a Legare desk, avail­able from SimonHelene.com. The com­po­nents are man­u­fac­tured at the company’s fac­tory in New York state, and can eas­ily be shipped in a flat pack. Putting the desk together is much eas­ier than the flat pack kits sold at many big box stores.

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