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Sharp corners are dangerous, I always feel like those windows will draw blood if I touch them with my mouse wrong. Strangely enough, I stayed in an East Asian
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
Sharp corners are dangerous, I always feel like those windows will draw blood if I touch them with my mouse wrong.
Strangely enough, I stayed in an East Asian hotel (I think with Tibetan influences?) and I remember the corners of the room all being rounded. It just felt better, more soothing? It would be hella expensive to get a craftsman to round all the corners in your room here in the west, you could do it with plaster but it wouldn’t last more than a decade and wouldn’t add any resale value.
- orthoxerox 2y agoI know nuclear power stations have no sharp corners to make them easier to clean.
- porterde 2y agoDo you have a source for that fact?
- orthoxerox 2y agoYou know, I remember seeing this on older pictures, but I tried to come up with an example and couldn't, all recent pictures I could find had regular floor moldings.
- Y-bar 2y agoI spent two summers as a cleaner at a pharmaceutical company in my late teens. The "round corners are easier to clean" were a thing there as well, reason I was told was that sharp corners will scrape off some residue from the cleaning cloths when you drag them over the corner.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoOh, ya, I can see this being really nice for the kitchen sink or the stand in shower. Right now, oil build up gets trapped in corners that require a brush to work out, which is tricky in the shower where it’s all calked.
- gopher_space 2y agoIt feels like the more things I use a kitchen sink for the more I appreciate corners. Cleaning is a little more involved but being able to e.g. set two buckets next to each other and have them be level is really really handy.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI don't see how rounded corners and edges prevent that? It is still going to be mostly rectangular, just not "sharp".
- heftig 2y agoI don't know about power stations, but it's a common feature in medical devices. E.g. keyboards have a flat or nearly-flat surface so they can be easily cleaned by wiping without leaving any germs behind in a groove, or on an edge. I suppose something similar makes sense in an environment that could produce radioactive dust.
- stereo 2y agoYour fridge has no sharp corners inside.
- bombela 2y agoMostly because it is injection molded, and that sharp corners on plastics are prone to crack.
- hnlmorg 2y agoIt’s definitely true for some hospitals here in the UK.
- acc_297 2y agoI was curious and went looking. This is the closest I found after a quick google search. It refers only to lighting options in the reactor chamber not the hallways and such. https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/analysis/featurehow-to-choose-lights-for-nuclear-applications/?cf-view https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/analysis/featurehow-to-choo... "There are some obvious considerations: all underwater nuclear lights should be crafted from stainless steel with rounded and smooth surfaces for easy decontamination, and have no sharp or jagged edges to reduce the risk of workers tearing safety gloves or clothing. "
- philwelch 2y agoOne of the houses I lived in during college had rounded room corners, and it was a very old house. I'm not sure how it was done.
- bombela 2y agoWith a round trowel and/or a wood template. I have some experience plastering. Round corners are somewhat easier than sharp ones. The plaster/joint compound tends to pile up quickly in corners and it is hard to skim it thin.
- janci 2y agoTraditionally it was done here in eastern block with a beer bottle. A tool always within reach of a builder.
- Daub 2y agoBeer bottles to make rounded corners? Brilliant!
- leobg 2y agoHow do you make a round corner with a beer bottle? I mean an actual corner (three walls meeting), not an edge (two walls).
- account42 2y agoUse the edge of the bottle base as a semicircle-shaped spatula and rotate the bottle as needed?
- flir 2y agoHmm. We do it to ceilings (coving). I think you maybe need wooden coving, mounted vertically. Then you can make a feature of it, skim it, paint it, whatever.
- ChoGGi 2y agoBullnosing drywall isn't much more expensive then square corners?
- Zelphyr 2y agoMy wife's grandmothers house here in the US, built around 1952, has rounded corners in a lot of the ceiling and doors. It is quite nice.
- cesaref 2y agoHere in the UK it was pretty common up to say the 1940s for plasterers to curve the corners on outward pointing walls in hallways. This usually extends from the skirting up to the picture rail. There is a lovely transition from the curve to a point just below the picture rail, which is very elegant, but a total pain if you are hanging wallpaper, well, that's my experience anyway! I've always felt it was one of those details that a plasterer could show off their skill, and you are right, it softens the corner in a very pleasing way.
- msephton 2y agoYou should try staying in a yurt. No corners at all, felt like I was back in the womb. (I imagine)
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI'm sure Buddhist architecture in Zhongdian was Mongolian influenced to some extent.
- bhauer 2y ago> I remember the corners of the room all being rounded. It just felt better, more soothing? It's funny. Here in the United States, I find houses with bull-nosed interior walls discomfiting. Something about all the rounded corners causes me mild distress. I find it much more comfortable being in houses with sharp-edged meetings of walls.