Brass porthole cover for a laundry chute

Songwriter Allee Willis installed this fab brass porthole cover on her laundry chute. I am tempted to install a laundry chute just so I can follow suit.

As much as I love these they’re not my favorite porthole around here. That honor is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor and now serves as my laundry chute.
My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone. When I get completely frustrated writing, painting, making films, curating AWMoK.com and everything else I fill my time with I always think I could go into the business of selling porthole laundry chutes.

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1952 Chris-Craft Portholes (via Neatorama)

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Very cool, but I would so stub my toe on this three times a week!
- Diogenes
  
  Precisely. That thing is a toe-mangler if I ever saw one.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA Nagurski
  
  Mine started bleeding spontaneously when I saw the lugs on that thing.
robotnik

Suit! HA! (Actually, most suits are dry-clean only.)
Susan Carley Oliver

Just checked on ebay, and there are plenty of these to be had, quite affordably. Now, how to rig up a whites/colours/delicates sorting mechanism?
Hanglyman

“My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone.”

It’s a cool idea and all, but… what? What?? Which of her friends goes to her house, says, “Hey, that laundry chute porthole is really awesome!”… and then informs the press? Twice?
- Ian Anthony
  
  Agreed. I’d rather read about murders, Rick Santorum, and Justin Bieber.
robotnik

Christ, what a brasshole?
franko

for some reason, before i clicked the link, i thought the porthole was going to be in a wall — but in the FLOOR? yeah, i’d trip over that constantly.
terrycarroll

Years ago I put in a brass porthole in my backdoor as a cat hatch. An image can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=271870192901981&set=a.166521456770189.44718.100002370072825&type=1&theater
- http://plagmada.org Tim H
  
  That’s in bad taste from the cat’s perspective, being that it’ll have to dog the hatch when the weather starts to blow. Dog, get it?
jwkrk

I wanted to put in a floor laundry chute during some renovations, turned out it was a safety violation (holes in floor and all that, even with a cover)…
robotmonkeys

Best use of a porthole since my dad installed one in my room as a wall safe when I was 10.