09-17-2020, 06:41 PM
This one might be a bit unique and maybe belongs in woodworking. You can see a pantry in the picture, essentially a repurposed closet from the adjoining room. It's over the top of a stair well going down to the garage which is why this is elevated up off the floor a bit. Anyhow it's only about 18" or so high but my wife has a hard time stepping up into this pantry to get to everything in there. She's asked for some sort of step. As you can tell the exterior door opens into the space directly in front of the pantry door. I've seen some fold down chairs that I suppose would work but looking for something relatively small and certainly sturdy enough to take our weights. I'm pretty good at making things but not a great engineer of the ideas. My ideal world would be something that when folded down (hinged from wall), would auto extend legs out for support, and conversely retract when folding up. I can build something out of wood but can't seem to get my head wrapped around a system that would extend / retract the legs. Ideally this would fold down when not in use, that way the kids don't have to mess with it if they don't want to as they can hop into the pantry just fine.
Any thoughts out there? Much appreciated
Greg
Any thoughts out there? Much appreciated
Greg