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The catch is that curved edges are a pain in the ass to fit furniture in, and varying sizes of dome homes have different curve angles, so you can't just make standard "curved" furniture. An box is a box regardless of size, and any couch fits against any flat wall. Sectional couches now let you customize the size to fit bigger or smaller boxes.

Unless you get a lot of custom pieces, you can lose a lot of space or end up with awkward and ugly situations, so it really only works for people who have the time and resources to spend on custom interior design.

Because of all this, resale of the home can be difficult, because your market is limited to the small community of people

Perhaps as 3d and custom manufacturing becomes more commonplace and price competitive with assembly line products, there will be more of an appetite for the amount of customization that these kinds of homes require.

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If you don't have TV what is your couch pointed at!?!?

Lots of people put their couches etc straight against a wall pointing to the opposite wall where their tv and credenza is rested against.

But when one looks at published interior design or people's pinterest dream boards you'll see floating couches, arrangements around the center of a space, etc.

Though I'm sure that pedestrian layout is partly a cost thing if you have very limited space. Or hell even a bunch of cheap furniture doesn't even have backs or it looks like cheap particle board only crap.

That New Yorker cartoon saying something about you have to be really rich to afford this much nothingness.

There is a difference between designing a functional space with good aesthetic, and using a home as a canvas for art.

Also, according to a 99PI piece on concrete dome houses in the US, the indoor aucoustics gets really weird.

Acoustic lenses all over the place...

I live in a dome home!

The acoustics only have the slightest weirdness, there's a spot in the 3rd floor Master Bedroom where I can talk to someone in a specific spot in the 2nd floor kitchen (on the other side of the dome) as though I were standing next to them, but otherwise my dome is good at keeping noises isolated.

If your house is made of polystyrene, your furniture can be too. After going to team lab in Japan and experiencing a room that was all beanbag, we built a room in our house that is all beanbag.

You need only a determined child with a sharp tool to ruin your house.

To be fair, a determined child with a sharp tool can ruin most houses.

A few years ago, the neighbor kid from where my parents live made a hole in a wall of his room leading to outside.

My own kids do a lot of crazy, sometimes destructive, things which make think "how the hell do you even come up with that and not realize it's a bad idea? It's as bad as when I was a kid and... Oh."

I always joke that my kids have no where near a chance to be 10% as bad as I was as a kid. When they ask for examples I wisely say nothing at all.

Would you be comfortable with sharing a photo of the beanbag room?

Yeah, sorry for the late response. https://i.postimg.cc/3NjLhG5Z/20211122-235820.jpg

Polystyrene sticks to everything, by the way. https://i.postimg.cc/sgb5n2bf/20200114-134910.jpg

Haha thanks. The second picture is great.

And where would I hang all my collected art work?

You just put two hooks up top and let the bottom hang

And at a 6 foot viewing height you lose half of your living area.

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By throwing away that physical shit and just projecting your NFTs via your augmented reality contact lenses of course.

I bet some people are genuinely living your comment out, just with VR goggles. We are in that weird bit between "normal" and cyber dystopia/utopia that doesn't get much explanation in fiction.

Makes me think of Akane's apartment in Psycho Pass. Who needs decorations when you have holograms/VR. Although personally I won't those darn monkeys looking at me.

Couldn’t we just make built in bookcases and storage along the walls to flatten the curve?

If you make a bookcase, the vertical members will have to vary quite drastically in width along their length. And the shelves would be significantly deeper on the bottom than they would be 5 feet up. And wood comes in rectangular pieces, so besides all the custom cuts, you also will have a huge amount of wasted material.

You just have to partition the interior with vertical walls that extend up 6+ feet. The void behind can be used for storage just like with second story kneewalls.

> You just have to partition the interior with vertical walls that extend up 6+ feet.

Any section cut through a dome will be a half circle, so you're still going to be wasting a lot of material when you cut that wall. And at 6' high, it's going to encroach significantly on the floor space of the dome.

> The void behind can be used for storage just like with second story kneewalls.

This would require access from the (approximate) middle of the knee wall, reducing the usefulness of said kneewall. And leaving a storage space on either side of this access shaped roughly like half a wedge of apple (though a bit larger).

It's either that or the knee wall itself would have to curve to stay a consistent distance from the bottom edge of the dome, which would be a whole different nightmare to build.

This isn't limited to domes.

The majority of the issues I listed are, indeed, limited to domes (only exception being the knee-wall-encroaches-on-floor-space)

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