We all want to have the perfect little landing strip. A convenient area by the doorway we use most with plenty of surfaces and enough storage to drop all of the day's burdens—your cell phone, iPod, wallet or purse, mail and keys—and enter your serene and peaceful place (Hey, spending all night curled up at your desk clicking through Facebook can be very relaxing!). But sometimes... landing strips just happen.
Flickr Find: A Makeshift Landing Strip
We spotted this image on Flickr of a landline cordless phone doing double duty as a landing strip. In this case, being the kitchen's go-to spot for takeout menus.
Of all the reasons for keeping landlines around, like the benefits of a non-cell-phone in an emergency or just the fact that real handsets can be so damn sexy looking sometimes, we've never seen their possible double life as a storage unit as one of them.
What do you think? Does this makeshift landing strip remind you of a space in your home? Let us know in the comments.
Image from devinlynnx at Flickr with a Creative Commons license.
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It reminds me of many spaces in my own home, in that someone is trying to cram a bunch of junk in a space that doesn't work at all practically OR aesthetically. It looks terrible, and what happens when you take one of those menus out? I can imagine that all coming loose and fluttering to the floor.
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It reminds me of many things in my home that I'm trying to change.
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My mother used to do that with the kitchen phone. But then the calendar hanging over the phone was replaced with a larger one, and she got a phone that didn't have a huge back, and both of these caused her to have to stop using the phone for this purpose.
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