If you were tasked to make lightweight furniture and kitchen

>>1080537
use the foam as as core and slap fiberglass over it.

>>1080537
>taking Mid-Century Modern to the logical extreme

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>>1080582
You act like they didn't make kitchens like that back in the day. This one is from '59.

What about gluing formica onto it?
That should give it plenty of strength

>>1080681
Yeah, but that would add a lot of weight. Even paper and a good sealing paint will add a lot of strength and durability, and very little weight.

I read some blog posts from a guy who was fiberglassing parts for his RC airplane. He wanted to know if he could just do paper and resin on balsa, instead of fiberglass and resin, for test parts. So he did tests. Paper wasn't as durable, bit it added a huge amount of strength. I'll see if I can find the link.

>>1080606
That would make me vomit every time I stepped into it.

Going to be difficult to get hinges to hold. I'd probably edge the cabinets with a wood fillet and screw lightweight platic hinges onto it. Even Balso would probably do.

plastic* balsa*

>>1080797
I was thinking about gorrilla gluing 3/4 by 3/4 wood supports to the hinge side of the face frames and the same where hinge slide style should go.

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>>1080606

That is, bar-none, the tackiest, cheapest-looking room I've ever seen.

Jesus Christ, tell me that's just a concept. Or a joke.

>>1080606
I like this quite a bit. The matching salt and pepper shakers make the room.

>>1080782
It was a model house for a laminate manufacturer named Wilsonart. The whole house is laminate. The walls, the floors, everything. It's been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Temple, Texas.

>>1080851
I agree, it looks incredibly dated. That said, it was made by one of the premier laminate making companies in the US at the time and they had their best people do it. The Wilson family lived in the house from 1959 to 1997 and almost all of the original laminate survived up to that time. This wasn't the cheap Formica shit from the 70s that would basically start disintegrating the minute it rolled off the assembly line. They pioneered things in this house that wouldn't be seen by most people for 15 years and they made it for the boss to live in. Lord knows all the off-gassing probably didn't do the family any favors but the craftsmen did do some excellent work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FhYJ_8LJ8

>>1080606
Why do you think I mentioned it?
"Everything is made from plastic!"

>>1080866
Thanks for that vid link, Anon. Fascinating.

>>1080866
She wrote her masters thesis on laminates.
What a fag.

>>1081163
yeah, you don't want to scare the other ladies with all that book-learnin'.

>>1080542
how strong would this make it?

>>1081522
ridiculously strong. thats how they make boats.

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>>1080542
Love to see one done with that carbon/kevlar cross weave

Do you have to use epoxy or will any adhesive do ?