Look: A Meccano Style Loft Melbourne

We stumbled across this February 1976 issue of ‘Home Journal’ for just 40cents at our favourite op shop over the weekend and with and the feature article made us want to pull out our childhood meccano set and get making! Unfortunately, we didn’t have anywhere near enough pieces or the need for a loft bed complete with staircase, built in desk and wardrobe. Maybe you do? Click below for more great pictures of the construction of the loft and our male models pants…

1. The loft that is being built is from Aero Designs in South Yarra and contains 167 components and over 500 nuts and bolts. This is as much technical detail as the article gives. However, it does mention that “Bob and Francesca, in their colour co-ordinated gear, share a joke.”

2 and 3. The stairs are built to the current safety standard by Bob

4. Once the structure is completed then all the bolts are tightened to make it ridged. The sawn steps, bed base, shelving and desk are put in place.

6 and 7. A close up on the desk and storage sections.

While we may not have learnt that much from the written article, we found it really interesting to read what design magazines used to be like. With only a few coloured pages, their DIY section [there is also a timber drinks trolley] is all based on constructing flat-pack furniture. If we were to open a current magazine to find instructions on Ikea furniture we didn’t own, it would be disappointing.

What have your experiences been with vintage design magazines been?

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I am in love with the male mom jeans.

posted by chusmabilly on October 29th 2008 at 1:45pm
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LOL - who knew mom jeans would also look bad on men.

posted by peacelily on October 29th 2008 at 1:47pm
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I'm sorry, what did you say? I was too busy looking at those pants to listen.

posted by superbeetle on October 29th 2008 at 1:48pm
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Uhg why would anyone want to live in a garage storage unit?

posted by Comicgeek on October 29th 2008 at 1:49pm
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all that yellow makes me queasy

posted by dmh on October 29th 2008 at 1:53pm
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those jeans are so sexy i want to grab his ass.

posted by animalhouze on October 29th 2008 at 1:54pm
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Hmmm... I actually think this isn't so bad. Maybe not in yellow but in piping like we saw in yesterday's post about that bed:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/beds-mattresses/pipe-furniture-by-manhattan-clean-line-067532

and here:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/how-to/how-to-build-a-pipe-bed-015898

a pipe loft could work, no?

posted by peahen on October 29th 2008 at 1:59pm
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OK, out of curiosity I did a search and found this pipe loft bed:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pipe-Loft-Bed/

It's not so bad, eh?

posted by peahen on October 29th 2008 at 2:05pm
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truly unfortunate jeans

posted by formosagirl on October 29th 2008 at 2:17pm
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Those jeans!

No wonder everyone did LSD & Cocaine back then!

posted by bepsf on October 29th 2008 at 2:31pm
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The photos are confusing. That's a wo-man in those jeans. That would have been pushing the limits of man jeans even in 1970's Australia.

posted by art on October 29th 2008 at 2:39pm
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Looks like early Ikea

posted by HereOrOverThere on October 29th 2008 at 7:58pm
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I do remember seeing jeans like that on guys in my high school days. Not a lot. Not on me.

But yeah, they were tight back then, and left little to the imagination. O__O

posted by btoddster on October 29th 2008 at 8:23pm
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Where is this op shop, if you don't mind me asking? I'm visiting Melbourne soon and wouldn't mind a look around!

posted by ryttu3k on October 29th 2008 at 11:55pm
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Oh my God, this is what the world looked like when I was 13 years old. No wonder I am suck a freak. Seriously, those pants make me think that leisure suites weren't so bad after all.

posted by Carder on October 30th 2008 at 4:25am
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first paragraph. so confusing.

posted by kiljoywashere on October 30th 2008 at 5:58am
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1. There are two women and no men in the first shot. Ms. Pants is featured in Pictures 6 &7.

2. Rigid.

posted by Molly Margarita on October 30th 2008 at 9:39am
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ryttu3k - The op shop is the Three Legged Chair, 18 Progress Street, Mornington. [Open Mon-Fri 10-4, Sat 9-12:30] They've also put together a guide to all the other op shops in Mornington so while you're in the area you can visit them all.
The manager loves AT so be sure to mention it- you might even get a complimentary cup of coffee ;)

posted by Jennyb on October 30th 2008 at 4:20pm
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Thanks! I'll bear that in mind!

posted by ryttu3k on October 30th 2008 at 10:56pm
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