Every person has their own image of a good and comfortable home. For some, it is a big house with a lot of things and space. For others, a good house is cozy and comfortable without excess space. However, for everybody, a good house is a functional and comfortable house.
So, let us have a look at the things that make your house as you wish it to see. What would it be? Enough place to arrange all the required devices? Or maybe a fully automated home is your dream? Or you would like to have a special decor you have always been dreaming about?
Let us check how you can achieve your dream.
Start Automating Your Home with the Simplest Projects
When it comes to automation, easy to do doesn’t mean primitive or odd. If you don’t have experience in DIY automation projects but want to try, start with the easiest things.
What about a height-adjustable desk? It is one of the easiest automation projects. You can get a lifting frame on a reliable website and just attach to it the available desk top. You can either order a new desk top or use the one from your older desk.
You don’t need specific skills to fix the desk top to the frame. Just do it, and enjoy the new adjustable desk.
By the way, you can renovate the dining table in the same way. Just attach the table top to a new lifting frame, and a new table is ready. If you have kids, we bet they will be amazed by this renovation.
Another pretty easy project is a TV lift hidden behind one of the bookcases or a wardrobe. Or as an option, you can just install it on a wall by the ceiling and make it move your TV set lower to watch it. When you don’t need it, move it up with a push of a button.
Move from Easier Projects to More Complex Ones
Now, when you have some experience with easier projects, you can start working with more complex automation ideas for your home. Now, it is worth checking all popular ideas one by one.
Automate the Kitchen
Your kitchen is the place where automation is needed. Even if you have a huge kitchen, you still would like to have all the kitchen devices and utensils by hand. It is possible only with the most careful space use. Automation helps to do so.
So, what about implementing some automation projects to keep all the items by hand?
We can start with a drop-down rack. Just fix an actuator in the bottom of one of the wall-mounted kitchen cabinets. In the cabinet bottom, make an opening to let the actuator move. To the moving actuator side, attach a rack (it can be a rack for spices, kitchen utensils, or other smaller items you use constantly). Now, you can hide the rack when it is not in use, and make it drop down when you need to take something.
Another project you might find useful is a lifting column. It is installed in one of the kitchen cabinets to support one of the devices you use from time to time.
- In the cabinet top, you cut out a hole to make the device pass when moved up.
- Once the column and the opening are aligned, fix a premade platform on the column.
- On the platform, you can install the device and fix it to ensure it doesn’t collapse.
- Now, close the opening with a cap. You can fix it on hinges or make it move with electric actuators – whatever you like more.
With it, the lifting platform is completed. With a push of a button, you can move the device to the cabinet surface. When not in use, the device is hidden in the cabinet, and the opening is closed with a cap. So, you can use the cabinet as you normally do with the only difference that now, it hides a secret.
Other Ideas?
There are plenty of things you can do with actuators, some imagination, the minimum of tools, and skills.
For example, you can organize a huge storage space under your bed by automating the bed frame and installing a storage box beneath it.
Or what about changing your patio by building lift furniture there? A table and chairs that hide in the openings in the floor and lift when you need to dine with your friends and family look impressive and offer the top functionality level without sacrificing space.
Or as an option, you can optimize your garage space by installing lifting hooks, shelves, and other smart details to store things and keep the garage neat and properly arranged. The ideas are up to you, as long as you want to turn your accommodation into a comfortable and functional space.
Author: Hayley Mann is a technology enthusiast specializing in automation methods of ergonomics devices. Her engineering background helps her to create interesting articles on technical topics, making them understandable for all readers.
