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Something really unsettling about that house. The walls completely covered in art pieces. Enough seating for a family of two hundred. The pommel horse. The bizarre amount of hanging lights and chandeliers. The dining table with extremely inconvenient cuts taken out of the edges. It's like a house you'd see in a movie, before the residents start getting murdered. e: The giant safe in the living room, the chest used as a coffee table, whatever the hell those are draped over the single beds, the ridiculous amount of stuff on the back patio... e2: lol that bathroom mirror Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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There's just so much to process, we could call out individual elements for pages and pages. What the gently caress is hanging above the beds in the room with the two singles? It's like some sort of pointless canvas shade and a old timey sailor shirts.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:30
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Manslaughter posted:e: The giant safe in the living room, the chest used as a coffee table, whatever the hell those are draped over the single beds, the ridiculous amount of stuff on the back patio... e3: The library ladder hanging out right in front of the window with no shelving nearby Unless one of the servants just forgot to put away the ladder and left it propped up in the corner... I can't tell E4: the interior balcony railing to nowhere It's like hgtv just threw up everywhere in there Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Sep 8, 2016 22:37
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It's like a Country Living test house
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Sep 8, 2016 23:03
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I can't believe there's been 10 comments and nobody has mentioned the pommel horse in front of the bed... But did you notice half a block and tackle hanging the light? 
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Manslaughter posted:The dining table with extremely inconvenient cuts taken out of the edges. I'm pretty sure it's an old pool table.
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Sep 8, 2016 23:33
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I can't believe there's been 10 comments and nobody has mentioned the pommel horse in front of the bed... How else do you expect a Gymkata Master to defend him/herself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymkata
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Sep 8, 2016 23:52
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What about the simple things. Look at that loving floor trim. The base shoe matches the floor?
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My take on that house is that it’s like if some indie game developer downloaded every free art asset they could find, then stuffed them all in the same house and cranked up the engine’s HDR.Baronjutter posted:Jesus I guess they dont have maximum lot coverage rules in Houston. Houston: the largest city in the U.S. with no zoning laws.  Look at those lamps.  This room is like the waiting room in The Man in the High Castle where the kempetai take people they’re going to murder. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Sep 9, 2016 00:32
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c0ldfuse posted:What about the simple things. Look at that loving floor trim. The base shoe matches the floor? It's when Lumber Liquidators or some other lovely franchise installs new hardwood floor without removing baseboards. Because they make more money from selling and nailing pre-stained matching shoe molding.
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armoredgorilla posted:I feel like I should be careful balancing my way across the rafters trying to retrieve my lost souls.
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That house looks like a house I'd take 3 weeks to decorate in The Sims 2 with all custom content, then get bored with and never play.
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Platystemon posted:My take on that house is that it’s like if some indie game developer downloaded every free art asset they could find, then stuffed them all in the same house and cranked up the engine’s HDR. I'll take 5 art please.
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New McMansion post and now I need a fantasy team or band name to be Ol' Brass 'n' Glass.
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What in the beige hell is wrong with Texas suburbia?   
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Today I learned 'jerkin head' is an actual architectural term. Thanks Worst of McMansions!
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This roofline unironically owns. Not the rest of the house, though.
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moist turtleneck posted:Realtors love using wide angle lenses to make houses look good so that you go in the house and realize the realtor is a liar immediately and to never look at anything repped by that person again Holy poo poo is this the truth. They don't even try to hide that kitchens aren't really as small as they're trying to portray. Nope, slap a wide angle lens on the photo and hope nobody notices that the cabinet doors are 4 feet wide.
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Platystemon posted:This roofline unironically owns. reminds me of the landscape tool in Sim City
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 This is a good example of wide‐angle lenses distorting perception. I think that keystone is, in fact, centred. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Sep 9, 2016 08:59
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Wide angle lenses are used to get as much of the room in one shot as possible without doing dumb panorama shots. AND they make the room look bigger.
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SynthOrange posted:Wide angle lenses are used to get as much of the room in one shot as possible without doing dumb panorama shots. AND they make the room look bigger. This is true. And panoramas don’t solve the problem. You either project choose rectilinear projection and get the same “oh no that cabinet/left side of that arch is huge” problem or choose any other projection and bend lines (which is usually even worse). That photo looks goofy, though. Shoot the staircase vertically. with artillery
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The thing that bugged me most about the Houston house was the random bench in the middle of the goddamn master bathroom. Like the long suffering gold digger wife put it there so when her octogenarian husband gets up in the middle of the night to take a poo poo he will trip over it, crack his head on the tub, and she can finally run off to Paris with Carlos the pool boy.
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:The thing that bugged me most about the Houston house was the random bench in the middle of the goddamn master bathroom. Like the long suffering gold digger wife put it there so when her octogenarian husband gets up in the middle of the night to take a poo poo he will trip over it, crack his head on the tub, and she can finally run off to Paris with Carlos the pool boy. Thought you guys were overdoing it here just for comedic effect... and then I looked. The loving wall baskets  I mean, to be fair, what I've seen of american interior design and architecture it's just all kinds of poor taste and hosed up, but this house is like a flamboyantly gay interior designer had an LSD-induced stroke and thought "you know what's kitchy? loving everything". Marble kitchen countertops. loving everywhere. Nice piece of fish fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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You might also like... Home of the Roma Kings In a Romanian farm town, once itinerant traders have struck it rich, replacing caravans with mansions. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/wealthy-roma/oneill-text
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`Nemesis posted:Once upon a time they probably had a fire drill and a bunch of people ended up in the basement perhaps? Not just a drill. If you're in a building fire and it's dark and smokey and you can't see, it's a safety measure to people don't continue down to the basement and roast.
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It's weird that there's thousands, hundreds of thousands, of huge homes like this. People with just enough money to buy their "dream house" but with no taste or dreams of their own. They just buy "upper middle class to rich house package" off a literal assembly line. It's cheap garbage but it's marketed to tasteless money-havers and they are assured that once purchase they will officially be living correctly like rich people who own the fine things. They then putter around in these massive impersonal houses spending a fortune on upkeep and cleaning staff to keep the dust off their hoard of cheap tacky garbage.
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I think it would be better if it just came off of a literal assembly line, the worst is when people want to make a design their own by adding elements that no sane designer would have included in the first place.
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Platystemon posted:Shoot the staircase vertically. with artillery  Keep up the good work, thread.
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Nitrox posted:It's when Lumber Liquidators or some other lovely franchise installs new hardwood floor without removing baseboards. Because they make more money from selling and nailing pre-stained matching shoe molding. I still don't get it.
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So I know nothing about planes or hangars, I'm not an architect or an engineer. But some how a local flying club is entrusting my opinion on how to install a bunch of giant plane sized lift things in order for them to double their hangar space. They gave me a list of their current planes and some info on this lift (which looks legit) and told me to come up with a plan to maximize the amount of planes they can stack. I came up with this  Everyone seems happy, large amounts of money is going to be spent, planes are going to be stacked on top of each other, and I'm terrified I measured something wrong or don't understand something about planes or hangars and the whole thing is going to end up a burning pile of aluminum and canvas. Or it will work out just fine!! I don't want my work to become a crappy construction tale, or a OSHA thread topic...
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devicenull posted:I'm pretty sure it's an old pool table. That is definitely an old pool table, and just flat out weird. I love pool tables but c'mon, at least spend a few minutes prettying up the edges or something.
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Baronjutter posted:So I know nothing about planes or hangars, I'm not an architect or an engineer. But some how a local flying club is entrusting my opinion on how to install a bunch of giant plane sized lift things in order for them to double their hangar space. They gave me a list of their current planes and some info on this lift (which looks legit) and told me to come up with a plan to maximize the amount of planes they can stack. This seriously needs its own thread. Where the hell are you doing this that simply buying/renting/building another hangar is more expensive than replicating the aircraft handling system from the USS Akron? What the hell are they using to lift the aircraft with? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
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It doesn't seem that strange to me. Airplanes are extremely light relative to their footprint. The lifts are probably $10k-$15k each (and there at least a few commercial options available). If rental space is expensive (or simply unavailable), it could pay off pretty quickly.
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Sorta like this? https://youtu.be/hT9EEjDFD7w We keep all our maintenance spares in these where I work, and I've seen it scaled up to cars in dense-pack auto garages but both the execution and reasoning to apply it to aircraft is lost on me. Can you link us to some existing installs of this thing?
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Much simpler than that. Aircraft hangar lifts
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As someone who recently had a job that involved spending a lot of time scaling and working (anchored in) on rooftops, these houses literally haunted my nightmares.
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Screw the Akron, go full Evangelion and move all aircraft storage underground, only invest in one lift. Way cheaper.
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Zhentar posted:Much simpler than that. Aircraft hangar lifts Missed their chance to call them hangar hangers
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