{"id":3746,"date":"2015-11-13T04:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:51:33","slug":"my-homemade-pipe-stool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/my-homemade-pipe-stool\/","title":{"rendered":"My homemade pipe stool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/22788812980\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/702\/22788812980_74c56ec592_z.jpg\" alt=\"Pipe stool\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about design, and specifically how the environments we encounter can suggest that one take a certain course of action. By keeping my shoes near the door to my apartment for my own convenience I&#8217;d accidentally created a bad design &#8212; a situation that subtly suggested one should remove one&#8217;s shoes, but didn&#8217;t offer any place to sit while doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I honestly don&#8217;t care if people remove their shoes or not but I want people to feel welcome if I&#8217;ve inadvertently suggested it. What I needed was a place to sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, I mean I could have just bought a chair or a stool, or even found one on Craigslist. But that&#8217;s no fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loosely following the design <a href=\"http:\/\/lovegrowswild.com\/2014\/08\/diy-industrial-pipe-stools-2\">from this blog post<\/a> I bought some iron pipe fittings at the hardware store and for the seat I purchased a tree slice from Amazon. I removed loose bark from the tree slice and applied a few layers of spray-on lacquer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pipes were more of a challenge. After a couple hours of wrestling with heavy iron pipes (and getting a few bruises along the way) I managed to get the pipes locked tightly into place. Then it was simply a matter of adjusting the caps at the bottom until the thing was level, and the floor flanges on the top so they were all level with the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few screws later, and I had a most unusual homemade stool. But most of all I solved a small design problem I&#8217;d accidentally created in my own living space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about design, and specifically how the environments we encounter can suggest that one take a certain course of action. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"My homemade pipe stool - MrEricSir.com","description":"Recently I've been thinking a lot about design, and specifically how the environments we encounter can suggest that one take a certain course of action. By keep"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[837,548,595,1121],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-diy","tag-industrial","tag-iron","tag-stool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}