Comments on: storage you can love: pure nomade’s hotel boxes

By: Tuppy Glossop, Christmas Tree Storage Maven!

Tuppy Glossop, Christmas Tree Storage Maven! — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:29:19 +0000

I think these boxes are super but oy, so expensive!

I like Miranda’s rule of thumb about not paying more that $1/item for a storage solution. And yes, they do seem destined to be knocked-off pretty soon.

By: design mom

design mom — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:19:40 +0000

These are fantastic. Just found your blog today. Love it.

By: miranda

miranda — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:36:21 +0000

Michelle – they are structured like a milk-carton, widened, with the “opening” part at both ends (in terms of the milk carton, not in terms of where these open), and a cut-out on the side filled in with cellophane, mylar, etc. They look like they’d be pretty easy to mock up, to me, if you had a carton to take apart and use as a model, but you’d need some really big sheets of paper/board and a bone folder.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:41:20 +0000

I like them a lot, I personally really enjoy looking at all of the great colors and textures and patterns in my closet, and I would enjoy having an open, very need closet that utilize these boxes as a storage unit, it would be very luxurious, I wonder if they would be easy to make by hand? thanks for the inspiration!

By: miranda

miranda — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:59:01 +0000

I’ve seen these positioned before as shoe boxes, which I thought was kind of hilarious for anyone who wears other than… well, serious bespoke European-leather shoes. I have several pairs of $200-300 shoes, and I wouldn’t personally spend this much on shoeboxes. (Because, I mean, they’re shoeboxes. As with media storage, where I kind of object on principle to paying more than $1/item in storage capacity: something that only holds 50 cds should not cost $200.)

However, the way they’re displayed here – the temporary shelving angle – makes a lot more sense, & looks nice. Also, a really nice shoe cabinet probably doesn’t cost much more per pair, though there are many cheaper options & these won’t necessarily look more organized than the more economical avenues would. They also sound like a reasonable idea for travel, maybe if you’re going to be a guest in someone’s house for longer than a few days, and they don’t have a drawer to offer you.

I wonder how much the inevitable knockoffs will cost?