Bikes 2, Reading chair 0
When I first toured this apartment, it was full of other people’s stuff. And the other people. So I didn’t get a chance to do more than get an impression of it.
In my mind, the back wall of the living room would hold the bikes and bike stuff, and the front wall had a corner just right for a reading chair by the window.
Unfortunately, as relates to this apartment, imagination and architecture are in different, yet parallel universes—the latter one is smaller than the first.
The bikes, just hangin’ out at the corner.
Yet they don’t really block the view.
These racks are designed and sold for commercial parking garages. Those projects typically have a long lead time, so it took a while for them to come in. Then I had to decide where they’d go.
Then get help to install them. The ones for home use are aluminum. These are steel. Very heavy steel.
Today, my dad and I put them up, in the corner where the reading chair was supposed to go. I already like having the bikes off the floor and back up on the wall where they belong. I can lock them both when I go out too.
The space is small, but by staggering the height, I could conserve width by tucking one set of bars in behind the other, so they both fit in the space. And they have their own piddle tray on the floor.
Alas, no reading chair.
