Questions tagged [furniture]
About large movable equipment, such as tables, chairs, or beds, used to make a house, office, or other space suitable for living or working.
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Would merfolk need beds?
The merfolk are fully marine creatures with a mix of human and piscine traits. The culture in question is demersal, and constructs cities and towns upon the sea-floor. The merfolk all have a finned ...
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What good reason for a full metal humanoid robot with powerful hydraulic legs need to sit on chair?
Set in near future, the human and robot coexist together amicably and conflict is rare.
They are designed to resemble us as close as possible for our sake, so we feel at ease and less paranoid by ...
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Beds for people who practise group marriage
On the world of Thirdrock, the humans there practise group marriage: one to three women marry one to three men, with a maximum of four people in the marriage (or occasionally five under rare and ...
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How can an inn's dining room furniture be designed for different sized species?
In the fantasy world I am writing, I have several species, including my dozing bear farmers you may have already read of, but also much smaller, mouse-looking humanoids. These people are taller than ...
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What would beds, couches , doors and clothes look like if humans had prehensile tails? [duplicate]
So, let's say long ago, somewhere along the evolutionary process, homo sapiens got fully prehensile tails that can support their weight, of about 1,5 to 2 meters long.
The tail is naked, about as ...
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Toilet for Mermaid?
I want to know a kind of toilet design for a mermaid, considering they live surrounded by water and they poop through the anus (or whatever the organs name is) that is located in the front rather than ...
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How to built a roundtable that seats 16000 men including King Arthur? [closed]
Last night a white owl flew into my furniture shop with a note tied to its feet. The message said King Arthur wishes to order a big portable roundtable that he and his men can bring along into a ...
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What would a toilet look like for a (paralyzed) humanoid with a tail?
This is related to How would a race of humanoids with tails design [vehicle] seats?; same universe, same humanoids.
I have a story involving a bunch of humanoids with tails (see prior question for ...
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How would a race of humanoids with tails design [vehicle] seats?
Let's say I have a race of humanoids (bipedal, roughly human proportions) that have tails like felines/canines. I'm trying to figure out how they would design seating...
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Like cats/dogs, ...
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What would a chair for a Human with a Tail look like?
I have a race of Half Human, Half Dragons I've aptly called Draconians. The Draconians have a thick lizard like tail which extends down from their tailbone and then slowly curves upwards until it is ...
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How do sapient birds/theropods build their seats?
Thinking about the shape gets pretty weird.
So my species has a more or less horizontal posture, pretty much a small sentient raptor. They can assume an 'upright' position, but only in the sense of a ...
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Furnishing fantasy inns [closed]
My basic question is This: what would the basic contents of an inn or hotel room be during the pre-industrial period. The room would have to include the following:
Bed ir mattress of some kind (what ...
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What would centaur chairs look like?
How would a chair be built for centaurs? Not a couch, not a chaise, but a simple, ordinary chair.
It needs to support the back of their human torso and it needs to give them space to fit the horse ...
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An environment where round beds are easier to build than rectangular
Welcome to this very strange question about bedroom furniture. We've all seen the round bed in Austin Powers, and novelty beds can be round. In my Renaissance-type Earth-like world, I wanted all the ...
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