What would furniture be like in a zero-G home?

Almost all of our terrestrial furniture is designed and depends on gravity. Beds to lie down in, chairs to sit down on, tables to place things on top. None of these would work in a zero-G environment.

For a hypothetical home without gravity, what would the furniture look like, and how would they work? Please keep in mind that this will be a typical home for humans, so it will need:

• Rooms or partitions for privacy
• Some place for sleeping
• Some place for eating, storing and possibly preparing food
• Some common space for recreation or socialisation
• Ability to store possessions (assume no fancy replicators nor post-material society)
• A place to bathe or clean yourself
• A place to eliminate waste (space toilet)

I suppose we can simply look to our current space stations for inspiration, but keep in mind they are severely cramped and spartan due to exorbitant resupply costs, and share very few functions with the typical home.

posted over 9 years ago

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