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kid sinister posted:Another lovely Airbnb. I can imagine burning to death in a housefire there, because the only way out was the stairs and I was too embarrassed to interrupt the person using the toilet.
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Youth Decay posted:This house is humongous but a nice example of "modern" design that isn't an ugly gray box or a mishmash of clashing styles. I'm the spot in the middle of the island that can only be reached by slithering onto it on your belly like a beached dolphin
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kid sinister posted:Another lovely Airbnb. This makes it virtually impossible to get to the toilet uninjured when you are drunk and need to find a place to puke quickly.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Having the toilet on the landing used to be the standard in Berlin apartments and is still pretty common in older/cheaper ones but for gently caress sake they'd give you a door The toilet looks like it's just at a random angle in the middle of the room
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Devor posted:I'm the spot in the middle of the island that can only be reached by slithering onto it on your belly like a beached dolphin Ah, I see you've been to rich people orgies.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:So this thread talks so much about lovely house design, so what are some examples of good house design and architecture in modern houses? I realize that builders in most neighborhoods are going to build pink brick cubes, but in the unlikely event that I ever get enough money to do a custom build, how does one avoid ending up on McMansion Hell?    Megillah Gorilla posted:I really like inventive uses for garage doors. They have one where an entire glass wall slides like 25 feet out - https://www.olsonkundig.com/projects/berkshire-residence/
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Sep 5, 2018 17:12
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gvibes posted:Going to use these guys for my vacation home if I ever save up enough money - http://www.lucidarc.com/ I've started to hate this style as 90% of new mansions in my area all look like this. Every mega-rich gently caress who buys that charming 3br perfectly lovely turn of the century waterfront house just has to tear it down to build one of these huge institutional looking cedar and glass and shed-roofed complexes (which they then use 2 months of the year). I swear I've seen these exact houses before, specially the last one, but they all just look so exactly the same. Wonder if it's the same firm or just the current trendy style with the mega-rich.
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Baronjutter posted:I've started to hate this style as 90% of new mansions in my area all look like this. Every mega-rich gently caress who buys that charming 3br perfectly lovely turn of the century waterfront house just has to tear it down to build one of these huge institutional looking cedar and glass and shed-roofed complexes (which they then use 2 months of the year). I swear I've seen these exact houses before, specially the last one, but they all just look so exactly the same. Wonder if it's the same firm or just the current trendy style with the mega-rich.
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Sep 5, 2018 17:30
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gvibes posted:An Olson Kundig project, I believe. Whoah, do not open that on a windy day!
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I want one of these. I don't know why, but I must have it. Like the incra t-rules I saw in a youtube video. https://www.incra.com/measuring_marking-trules.html kid sinister posted:Another lovely Airbnb. That's a dangerous aura.
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gvibes posted:An Olson Kundig project, I believe. Oh come on, this is just lazy, leaving huge I-beams sticking out of the house. If you're mega-rich you at least need to have the panels curve around into some kind of housing or something on the sides so it looks cooler.
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Sep 5, 2018 17:50
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gvibes posted:Are you pacific northwest somewhere? It seems to be the dominant style up there. Not near as common elsewhere. Mwworks, deforest, and whitman estes in seattle, for instance. deforest is quite the name for anyone involved in homebuilding.
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Leviathan Song posted:deforest is quite the name for anyone involved in homebuilding. I read once that subdivisions are usually named after the things that they destroy. With a builder named Deforest...
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Baronjutter posted:I've started to hate this style as 90% of new mansions in my area all look like this. Every mega-rich gently caress who buys that charming 3br perfectly lovely turn of the century waterfront house just has to tear it down to build one of these huge institutional looking cedar and glass and shed-roofed complexes (which they then use 2 months of the year). I swear I've seen these exact houses before, specially the last one, but they all just look so exactly the same. Wonder if it's the same firm or just the current trendy style with the mega-rich. Yeah the glass and metal cube just screams trendy silicon valley office park to me. Why would you want to live in that?
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Jaded Burnout posted:When I did the original viewing of my house I said “nothing some redecoration won’t fix”. I’ve spent Ł152,000 on it so far. Houses, man. We went to a showing of a 1937 house here in Sweden, of a particular style that's getting rare as hell these days. Looked it over, read the inspection report, saw all the poo poo needing to be done and decided not to get it. Looked at other houses, saw this one still on the market, made an offer a bit lower than asking and got it. Did all the poo poo we didn't want to do, and 100+ hours of labor later moved in. Day after discover water leak in basement from using the kitchen. We shove a camera probe and find out the original plumbing is basically hosed (not a shocker since it's 80 year old cast iron but figured we'd be able to use it at least for a while) and we have to rip out half the basement to fix it. Oh well. Everything else is done though! And it's a loving awesome house. (Ironically, I just finished a multiyear renovation of a 1940s place and once done said "never loving doing this poo poo again" yet here I am...) Clayton Bigsby fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 5, 2018 |
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gvibes posted:Are you pacific northwest somewhere? It seems to be the dominant style up there. Not near as common elsewhere. Mwworks, deforest, and whitman estes in seattle, for instance. I'm in the pacific south-west, Victoria. Pretty much the same thing. But Victoria, Vancouver, and the Gulf Islands are just lousy with these things so the style has become, probably unfairly, associated with the worst of the housing crisis and wealth inequality.
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The top one looks like a nice modern rich people house. The other two look like buildings transplanted from a college campus or an office park.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm in the pacific south-west, Victoria. Pretty much the same thing. But Victoria, Vancouver, and the Gulf Islands are just lousy with these things so the style has become, probably unfairly, associated with the worst of the housing crisis and wealth inequality. I guess I never would have said that our Pacific Northwest is next to your Pacific Southwest, but now that I’ve seen it actually stated, it makes a lot of sense. Talk about some very different southwests though!
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Clayton Bigsby posted:(not a shocker since it's 80 year old cast iron but figured we'd be able to use it at least for a while) Said every other person for the last 50 years.
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hailthefish posted:The top one looks like a nice modern rich people house. The other two look like buildings transplanted from a college campus or an office park. Yeah that's what I hate about them, they're so loving institutional. I see them and think "Oh did a little private college open up here?" nope, that's the home of a single retired 60-year old couple who just lives on the island for a month or two in the summer. So often my wife won't believe it's a person's house, she'll look through the huge glass walls and see a hotel or office style lobby with no signs of residential use or life and argue there's no way this is a person's house, it's gotta be a business or school. Nope, that's what they want, the sterile commercial building look inside and out.
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E: re Baronjutter That style is popular in NZ too, although with different claddings. They're so tall that they tend to loom hugely unless they're very carefully placed to fit their environs.
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Baronjutter posted:I've started to hate this style as 90% of new mansions in my area all look like this. Every mega-rich gently caress who buys that charming 3br perfectly lovely turn of the century waterfront house just has to tear it down to build one of these huge institutional looking cedar and glass and shed-roofed complexes (which they then use 2 months of the year). I swear I've seen these exact houses before, specially the last one, but they all just look so exactly the same. Wonder if it's the same firm or just the current trendy style with the mega-rich. I'm not even in/from the Pacific Northwest but I came to hate this style during the brouhaha with tech douche Kevin Rose and the historic Portland Victorian he bought. Basically, he went into this lovely old neighborhood, bought the biggest, oldest, and most beautiful 1890s Victorian in amazing condition, and then quietly had it removed from the historic register and drew up plans to demolish and replace it with one of those boxy modern concrete/glass/wood houses. The rich neighbors found out and basically ran him out of town after compelling him to sell the house to them, thank gently caress. As the proud owner of a Victorian that's not even half as cool as the one in Portland that Kevin Rose bought just to tear down, gently caress him and his ilk forever. The design was fine in and of itself, but the fact that he wanted to destroy an irreplaceable gem of a house in order to build it made it despicable. I can't look at a house in that style without wondering what neat old house had to die for it to be built. Queen Victorian fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 5, 2018 |
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Leviathan Song posted:deforest is quite the name for anyone involved in homebuilding. It took me a minute to understand this. There is a town nearish me called DeForest that's pronouncd deh-forest so I had to kind of unpack things to get what you meant since I normally only see that context as "deforestation."
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Original building/design didn't meet accessibility requirements for the bathrooms, so a service hallway was converted. It could have been done more neatly, but that would have cost money. The mirror shows that behind the camera is a lockable door, and I bet that other door is a janitors closet of some sort.
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Queen Victorian posted:I'm not even in/from the Pacific Northwest but I came to hate this style during the brouhaha with tech douche Kevin Rose and the historic Portland Victorian he bought. Basically, he went into this lovely old neighborhood, bought the biggest, oldest, and most beautiful 1890s Victorian in amazing condition, and then quietly had it removed from the historic register and drew up plans to demolish and replace it with one of those boxy modern concrete/glass/wood houses. The rich neighbors found out and basically ran him out of town after compelling him to sell the house to them, thank gently caress. Yeah, gently caress that guy. There's too many like him in the PNW.
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EoRaptor posted:Original building/design didn't meet accessibility requirements for the bathrooms, so a service hallway was converted. It could have been done more neatly, but that would have cost money. The mirror shows that behind the camera is a lockable door, and I bet that other door is a janitors closet of some sort. I guess that makes sense. 
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shortspecialbus posted:It took me a minute to understand this. There is a town nearish me called DeForest that's pronouncd deh-forest so I had to kind of unpack things to get what you meant since I normally only see that context as "deforestation." I have a DeForest near me as well (WI). Also an Oregon (Or-reh-gone).
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shortspecialbus posted:It took me a minute to understand this. There is a town nearish me called DeForest that's pronouncd deh-forest so I had to kind of unpack things to get what you meant since I normally only see that context as "deforestation." 
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PetraCore posted:The dead grass around the house, the pitch-black windows barely reflecting light and giving no inkling of what's inside. The hint of an incoming storm in the clouds. This is perfectly set up to give off a feeling of being a cursed house, imo. Hence why I turned around, stopped, and got out to shoot it. The houses across the street are...more modest
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MH Knights posted:I have a DeForest near me as well (WI). Also an Oregon (Or-reh-gone). Yeah there are a few WI goons itt.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah there are a few WI goons itt. Hopefully everyone is keeping as dry as possible and not having to deal with wet/moldy construction.
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gvibes posted:Going to use these guys for my vacation home if I ever save up enough money - http://www.lucidarc.com/ (Therefore I automatically love it.)
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Youth Decay posted:This house is humongous but a nice example of "modern" design that isn't an ugly gray box or a mishmash of clashing styles. That picture is like archetypal grey box design, mang. Like someone whipped up a kitchen in The Sims and just slapped it down in a rectangle room that's two spaces too big.
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Liquid Communism posted:That picture is like archetypal grey box design, mang. Like someone whipped up a kitchen in The Sims and just slapped it down in a rectangle room that's two spaces too big. The worst part is, it looks like there's only just enough room between the island and the two walls for a single person (maybe a single person working with room for a second person to pass behind). It COULD be a very spacious and nice kitchen, but INSTEAD it's a tiny lovely kitchen, just wrapped around an island big enough to host a foursome on.
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hailthefish posted:The worst part is, it looks like there's only just enough room between the island and the two walls for a single person (maybe a single person working with room for a second person to pass behind). It COULD be a very spacious and nice kitchen, but INSTEAD it's a tiny lovely kitchen, just wrapped around an island big enough to host a foursome on. Hosting a foursome is such a pain, you have to deal with snacks and cancellations and all that garbage. It's better just to know someone who does them a lot and swing an invite.
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Was at a friend's house this morning and spotted this thing in the ceiling:  Firstly, yes, the ceiling really is that pink and the walls are orange. The whole house is like that. He's renting, and the price is really good for the area, so he's pretty much stuck with it. I asked him what the thing was, he had no idea. Said it's for letting ceiling space dust in. Also, spiders. So, obvious guess is some kind of vent. But why? The house was built in the 1950s in south eastern Australia, so it's not HVAC and there's no filter or anything above it. It really seems to be there just to rain down a slow but steady stream of dust and spiders.
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quote:Spider vent Hmm. quote:Australia Yup, checks out.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Was at a friend's house this morning and spotted this thing in the ceiling: Well, if it really does open into the attic, then perhaps it's helpful in that hot air in the house can move upwards?
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Hence why I turned around, stopped, and got out to shoot it. The houses across the street are...more modest This is amazing
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