They see me rollin': "Drop-top" furniture

I am far from what you call a "car girl." I have the most basic car maintenance down (i.e., "Ask Dad."), but other than that things with engines mystify me. In fact, my coworker Freda recently pointed out something about my own car that I felt silly for not knowing. We both have Ford Focuses (Focii?), and she showed me how I can flip up my back seat in order to completely flatten and expand the cargo area of my hatchback. I had no idea! All that cargo space, just hiding there!

But while I may not be rollin' in a drop-top with gold-plated spinners (or "blades."  I heard someone use blades once, so I guess those are a thing), these two pieces of furniture certainly qualify as "drop-tops" in my book. And once you lift the hood, there's tons of storage space underneath.



Via Pinterest, this bed with storage under the mattress almost looks like a reverse-Murphy bed.


A "beachy" storage sofa from Ana White, Homemaker. The site contains incredibly detailed construction notes, plus other readers' submitted examples of finished projects.