The living area has contemporary Scandinavian-style furniture and kilims on a sweep of maple parquet running through folding doors to the bedroom on the other side.
But you were twice that now, sixteen, and my parents thought it best that you occupy my room, and that I sleep on a folding cot set up in their bedroom.
It feels, in retrospect, as if hours stretched ahead, as we sat in the bedroom together, he on a folding chair near the sash window, his mug of tea cradled in his hands, the widowmaker at his feet; myself on the edge of the bed, over which I had hastily dragged the duvet to tidy it.
With the welcome center not yet opened, visitors must watch the video from some 20 metal folding chairs that crowd the cottage's upstairs bedroom.
"Faux suede gives a rich, sexy appearance to a bedroom," Ms. Dennis said, and ripple-folding produces "a more luxurious effect".
Rather than construct an elaborate box to cover the ones in her show house bedroom, Nina Campbell, a London designer, used short folding screens, which she upholstered with fabric coordinated with the window treatments.
I put on a motivational CD, light some incense, dump the basket on my bedroom floor before bedtime, and sit there folding and putting everything in its rightly place as I absorb some interesting information I'd never take the time to listen to during my day.
The downstairs communal space, approximately the size of a small one-bedroom flat, is accessed via a long series of folding French windows.
Property owners are taking on serious home improvement projects such as adding a slick back-garden extension with sought-after bi-folding doors, or converting the loft into additional bedrooms or a master bedroom suite.
