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Found a war crime while browsing Reddit on my lunch hour: Bought a house a year ago and ripped it down to the studs. Finally it's in a livable condition... (self.HomeImprovement) quote:My wife and I bought a great little home in an awesome neighborhood of San Diego about a year ago. We spent a couple of months looking at different areas of the town I call home (AKA America's finest city) before settling on this neighborhood. The problem of course was that we couldn't afford to live here! When homes in the area would pop up for sale they would go into escrow immediately and were usually over market value. This place was owned by a 94 year old woman who had recently passed away. She bought the home in 1938 and raised a couple of generations in the home. As she aged some areas of the house just weren't kept up and cared for as they were in the past. This led the home to being sold as is and letting the new owners know that there was a good amount of work to be done. It also meant we got the place for about 150k less than other similar homes in the market. When we put an offer on the house there were already 7 other offers. I wrote a letter to the family saying that we were a young couple who loved the neighborhood and wanted to raise a family here. It worked and we got the house! https://imgur.com/a/kUaip I should have known it was going to go all wrong when they said they hated coved ceilings. They turned this:  into   Also what the gently caress is this flooring, purposefully distressed vinyl plank?  The only color in the entire place is this terrible tile they decided to slap on the top(?) of the wall, and also used as the transition strip for every single doorway lmao   RIP you adorable Spanish Colonial, I'm glad your previous owner died so she can't see what happened to you.
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May 6, 2022 17:53
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i'd be ok with the kitchen if it wasn't so grostequely oversized well also why is there a tv there, holy hell that looks bad and the pendant lights just have exposed bulbs (????) that is painful
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May 6, 2022 18:06
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How is a house in California so dark???
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Sirotan posted:Found a war crime while browsing Reddit on my lunch hour: Horrifying. I know that there's no accounting for taste, it's their house, they can do what they want with it. But what really bothers me about this renovation and ones like it is that they are replacing real wood, ceramic tile, linoleum, cast iron, and plaster, all still in excellent shape, with...petroleum. Vinyl, laminates, various glorified plastics and particle boards, just about every material used in modern renovations is primarily made of loving oil. They're replacing sustainable, durable materials with fossil fuel crap that won't last anywhere near as long (and not just because it'll get ripped out whenever the grey look goes out of style). I follow the Youtube channel of a local realtor and when he does video tours of older houses he always points out that tile can be re-tinted without removing it, wood floors and wood cabinets can be refinished, etc. A lot can be done to give a house a more "modern" look if that's what you want while keeping the old, good materials and saving money.
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Youth Decay posted:Horrifying. Yes, exactly. That is a big reason why this particular renovation is just so offensive to me. The op says that the house is now "livable", but it always was. The bathroom and kitchen were certainly dated, but everything else in there seemed to be in really great condition. The plaster especially. Those floors would have been gorgeous if they had been refinished. Hell, the kitchen in this house is in better shape than what my 1941 had when I bought the place. Just a tremendous, hideous waste.
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May 6, 2022 18:45
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Hutla posted:How is a house in California so dark??? They straight up took out the windows that were in the kitchen/laundry and put in a fridge and overhead cabinets and a TV   Pro tip: if you're gonna have an open layout put the windows where they would have been in each individual room. Also the new half bath is just in the middle of the house with no windows at all. New layout is terrible in many other ways starting with the removal of the hall closets and the fact that you have to go through the kitchen to get to the family room, bedrooms and bathroom
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Youth Decay posted:Also the new half bath is just in the middle of the house with no windows at all. Why would you need a window there?
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And they even went to the appeal to an old lady of "we're just a young family, we'd love to live in this home" before gutting it. lovely move, regardless of what you think of the actual work. e: Turns out it was a bot repost of a 2014 post where the owner explained what they did... poorly. loving bots. SkyeAuroline fucked around with this message at 19:15 on May 6, 2022 |
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It's such a good, sad example of the HGTV remodel. I went on the (original) OP's reddit page to see if he'd posted anything else from it but apparently they got divorced a few years later so he doesn't live there anymore anyways. I'd like to imagine that the breaking point was an argument about what to watch on the kitchen TV.
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SkyeAuroline posted:e: Turns out it was a bot repost of a 2014 post where the owner explained what they did... poorly. loving bots. lol, yeah, I just saw that. Here is the actual op: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/36r21y/bought_a_house_a_year_ago_and_ripped_it_down_to/ Apparently the wife picked out the lovely fake distressed vinyl plank. 
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Sirotan posted:lol, yeah, I just saw that. Here is the actual op: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/36r21y/bought_a_house_a_year_ago_and_ripped_it_down_to/ So you're saying it's attractive to females? 
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Sirotan posted:lol, yeah, I just saw that. Here is the actual op: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/36r21y/bought_a_house_a_year_ago_and_ripped_it_down_to/ And the weird tile and dividing strips were faux skateboard tile because OP was big into that culture. Which... it still looks rough but I can understand that a lot more than without context.
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Jesus, that's just awful. Even if they just really needed to take down some walls, Jon living spaces, and enlarge the kitchen, you can tell that they could have done it in a much saner way with so much less wasted no man's land space. It seems like someone just went crazy with a remodeling program. There's no way to ever get away from the noise of everyday living, no place to hide messes, nowhere to be alone!
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Sirotan posted:lol, yeah, I just saw that. Here is the actual op: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/36r21y/bought_a_house_a_year_ago_and_ripped_it_down_to/ I need an additional filter for online dating "no farmhouse"
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The original isn't that good, but it does piss me off that they went so far out of their way to replace everything with worse materials. The result isn't the worst; it's the kind of thing I wouldn't bat an eye at in new construction aside from those goddamn planks. It's just that none of it was an improvement aside from being able to watch stuff while cooking, which could have easily been accomplished with a tablet and a stand.
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The Zillow search term of the day is "period-correct" https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/601-W-Columbia-St-Chippewa-Falls-WI-54729/79367988_zpid/    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Center-Moriches-NY-11934/142243104_zpid/  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/73-N-Mullens-Rd-Hinton-WV-25951/2067396987_zpid/   https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13718-Balsam-Rd-Johannesburg-MI-49751/113576575_zpid/   https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13510-Jamul-Dr-Jamul-CA-91935/17058791_zpid/ over-the-top 1890 Victorian, I question how much of this is original tbh      https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/631-Hall-St-Saint-Joseph-MO-64501/110497130_zpid/ supposedly over $100k was spent on the wallpaper in the renovation of this 1888 mansion      
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Youth Decay posted:They straight up took out the windows that were in the kitchen/laundry and put in a fridge and overhead cabinets and a TV The kitchen is just weird, but now they have a 2 bedroom 1.25 bath house and no master bath?? And tiny bedroom closets, with a useless "informal" space that just means they don't know what they're doing Wtf
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That remodel is pretty lame, but thank god they didn’t gently caress the facade up like in those pictures. Also lol at “we love MCM aesthetic!” translating to what they did.
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actionjackson posted:https://hivemodern.com/pages/product11499/pyramid-drawers-shiro-kuramata-cappellini fun fact some of his other dressers were in beetlejuice  https://sakujitsu.paris/side-one 
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I'm always perplexed by these /r/diy or homeowners posts where someone has the skill or money to do a gut reno for their own home but then they all turn out looking like a hotel bathroom. There's a lot of "finally got rid of my builders grade bathroom!" but then it's just gray LVP and subway tile.
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Shuu posted:I'm always perplexed by these /r/diy or homeowners posts where someone has the skill or money to do a gut reno for their own home but then they all turn out looking like a hotel bathroom. There's a lot of "finally got rid of my builders grade bathroom!" but then it's just gray LVP and subway tile. Listen buckaroo, if you know of any interior design aesthetic that’s superior to “generic flipper grays” then I’d like to see it.
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Shuu posted:I'm always perplexed by these /r/diy or homeowners posts where someone has the skill or money to do a gut reno for their own home but then they all turn out looking like a hotel bathroom. There's a lot of "finally got rid of my builders grade bathroom!" but then it's just gray LVP and subway tile. People legitimately want to live in a Zara's.
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The Zillow search term of the day is "juxtapose" https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/185-Plymouth-St-APT-4S-Brooklyn-NY-11201/2095605311_zpid/    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7704-Chatham-Rd-Chevy-Chase-MD-20815/37169146_zpid/     https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2497-Smith-Rd-Charles-Town-WV-25414/125267529_zpid/      https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3250-State-Highway-128-Calistoga-CA-94515/2070446324_zpid/  guest house thing  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/24-Pirate-Pl-Nanaimo-BC-V9R-6R1/314140118_zpid/ by Ian Niamath (2018)    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/300-E-74th-St-PENTHOUSE-F-New-York-NY-10021/219690133_zpid/ remodel by Andrew Wilkinson     https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/29-Pillow-Rd-Sunset-Valley-TX-78745/121655449_zpid/ "Collector's House" by A Parallel Architecture (2015)   I need this wallpaper in every room of my house 
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Youth Decay posted:The Zillow search term of the day is "juxtapose" Those stained wood window and door frames with white sashes and doors really bother me.
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So I may have gone in the exact opposite direction of /r/DIY couple. I really like colors. I have no interior design background but every designer in Austin seems to only be accepting $100k+ projects, and I bought a not-so-charmingly 70s house that smells slightly weird, so the last couple of months have been back-to-back one room challenges. My logic: I can probably gently caress this up a few times and gut it all again for <100k! Before/afters, please ignore the puppy toy fluff that consumes my life:     Popcorn ceilings are staying for now since it's expensive/disruptive to get them removed, and we're looking at raising the ceilings anyways.
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Shuu posted:So I may have gone in the exact opposite direction of /r/DIY couple. I really like colors. It looks beautiful. I'd live there and not change anything. Good work. e: Actually, that's not totally true, I'd prefer a bathroom vanity that has drawers/a cabinet, but that's just me and my terminal lack of storage space everywhere I've lived. But I wouldn't change anything on aesthetic grounds. SkyeAuroline fucked around with this message at 15:56 on May 9, 2022 |
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Kawaii af, we're best friends now
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Shuu posted:So I may have gone in the exact opposite direction of /r/DIY couple. I really like colors. Very cool.
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Thanks y'all I'm glad it turned out so well!Anne Whateley posted:How did you move the toilet yourself??? I have no DIY abilities and only designed it all. My friend is a contractor and will take on small projects for me, thankfully. The toilet was already the correct distance from either wall and just needed the flange replaced and rotated to be able to turn it, I think. I did learn after the fact that white cement tile sucks to install, is impossible to not stain, and is hard to clean. Oops.
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This looks great and i especially love the floor - but how do you do anything at that sink? like set a toothbrush down even? Hoping there's some hidden storage somewhere we cannot see. Anne Whateley posted:How did you move the toilet yourself??? It's exactly how you think - you rip out the plumbing as far back as you have to and build it back from there. This is in an upstairs bathroom with finished ceiling under it, so all was done from the bathroom. Basically have to open floor up slightly and get in there and just get gross. I'd imagine it's this + a jackjammer if cement.   Toilet is supposed to have 15" on center clearance of anything to left or right. Shuu looks like they got lucky and just rotated it as it appears to be centered a tile and a half over, that is if each tile is 1'.
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falz posted:This looks great and i especially love the floor - but how do you do anything at that sink? like set a toothbrush down even? Hoping there's some hidden storage somewhere we cannot see. The sink is a little bigger than it looks in the picture and has room for soap and stuff. This is just a powder room downstairs so I basically spent a lot of effort and money on a bathroom people just wash their hands and poo poo in. The full guest bathroom is upstairs with like, real cabinets and counterspace. Gonna add a shelf behind the toilet for toiletries and such. Originally the sink was going to be further off center and to the left with room for a cabinet on the right, but apparently there were issues with that mounting placement/plumbing so now it is this!
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Shuu posted:Thanks y'all I'm glad it turned out so well!
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falz posted:This looks great and i especially love the floor - but how do you do anything at that sink? like set a toothbrush down even? Hoping there's some hidden storage somewhere we cannot see. If it's a powder room then you never have to worry about stuff like that, but I do wonder how do you dry your hands.
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