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Anne Whateley posted:No, one rule of thumb (take it or leave it) is that you should have something alive in every room. So if you want you can stick a fish tank in one, but all the other rooms should have one or more plants to add life and movement to the space. You can disagree if you want, but it is a current principle, and not an '80s thing. Yeah I put plants in most rooms because they are natural air filters and my mccmansion is next to a highway (hello nox)
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Sagebrush posted:is this a feng shui thing or what
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My landlord's wife is some hot poo poo interior designer and after our last suite inspection he said his wife liked our place a lot. Feels good man. Need more plants I guess though! Oh also our building has no emergency lights in the stairwells. The power went out a while ago and the hallways were ok but there stairs were pitch black. Nice.
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Oct 1, 2016 03:02
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A plant in every room is too many things for me to kill through neglect.
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I can't have houseplants because the cat will relentlessly seek them out, eat parts of them, and then barf those parts up. Every day until the plant is gone.
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Oct 1, 2016 06:04
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Jordanis posted:I can't have houseplants because the cat will relentlessly seek them out, eat parts of them, and then barf those parts up. Every day until the plant is gone. I have a cat who does this and he also seems to have figured out that my wife is a vegetarian because he will rip a plant straight out of a pot, shake it like he was snapping the neck of a mouse or whatever, and deliver it to her (or her office chair or whatever). He also likes pastries and will try and yank doughnuts or cinnamon rolls right out of your hand. We've switched to cacti.
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Jordanis posted:I can't have houseplants because the cat will relentlessly seek them out, eat parts of them, and then barf those parts up. Every day until the plant is gone.
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Oct 1, 2016 06:54
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Magnus Praeda posted:He also likes pastries and will try and yank doughnuts or cinnamon rolls right out of your hand. Do the spines affect the flavor?
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Oct 1, 2016 07:01
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You can usually tell which plants are toxic to cats because those are the ones they try to eat first.
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the sexual Shiite posted:Do the spines affect the flavor? Actually, prickly pear makes a drat fine tart.
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Oct 1, 2016 07:58
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Magnus Praeda posted:I have a cat who does this and he also seems to have figured out that my wife is a vegetarian because he will rip a plant straight out of a pot, shake it like he was snapping the neck of a mouse or whatever, and deliver it to her (or her office chair or whatever). He also likes pastries and will try and yank doughnuts or cinnamon rolls right out of your hand. lmao A+ pussy
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Javid posted:You can usually tell which plants are toxic to cats because those are the ones they try to eat first. This person speaks truth.
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Oct 1, 2016 14:45
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Javid posted:You can usually tell which plants are toxic to cats because those are the ones they try to eat first. Now that our toxic plants are out of reach, my cat ignores all the rest of our plants. 
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Oct 1, 2016 18:28
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Maybe "house plants are an 80s thing" is an American thing because they are hell bent on killing every living thing on this planet anyway? 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Maybe "house plants are an 80s thing" is an American thing because they are hell bent on killing every living thing on this planet anyway? No that's true, I've spent a considerable amount of time researching how to kill hedgehogs, and had even set traps and lined up a source of dry ice to kill it with CO2 (as the AVMA guidelines for euthanasia suggested as a possible method) and the drat thing moved away and didn't come back. Disappointing! So instead I spent the afternoon spraying roundup on cracks and ant killer around the exterior of my house to take the edge off.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:31
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Bozart posted:No that's true, I've spent a considerable amount of time researching how to kill hedgehogs, and had even set traps and lined up a source of dry ice to kill it with CO2 (as the AVMA guidelines for euthanasia suggested as a possible method) and the drat thing moved away and didn't come back. Disappointing! See? Here you have to pay 101€ to kill a hedgehog.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:34
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Boy this went from laughing at hilariously obvious things like 15 different kinds of windows and massively oversized pillars to smug douchebaggery criticizing minor details that don't really look that bad.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:40
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I stopped to look at a jugend-style building when I was walking home from my mother's place and it was asymmetrical as hell and the windows weren't lined up and it looked great.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:42
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I like the idea that a bunch of goons only live in houses designed by contemporary architects, filled with important heirloom furniture placed by interior designers.
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Chemmy posted:I like the idea that a bunch of goons only live in houses designed by contemporary architects, filled with important heirloom furniture placed by interior designers. And all the upholstery stays pristine forever, because those goons have no friends and never leave their basements.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:45
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Here's my crappy construction tale. Just did this. Installed a toilet in the guest room of my old house. Flange wasn't quite seated properly (atop a lead drainpipe, of course!), and when I screwed the toilet down, there's a gap on the front end of about 3/8". The back is tight against the floor. It's reasonably level and feels fairly solid. Said "gently caress it" and shimmed the front, which I'm sure to regret someday. I figure if the world doesn't turn wet after our first guests, I'll caulk the bastard and watch the ceiling downstairs. You may now chastize me.
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Oct 1, 2016 21:58
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I've moved away from wax rings. The rubber ones let me gently caress up placement multiple times.
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Yeah, I refuse to use wax. I hate that poo poo. The rubber is part of the reason I just gave up. I figure it's more tolerant of my mistakes.
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Bozart posted:No that's true, I've spent a considerable amount of time researching how to kill hedgehogs, and had even set traps and lined up a source of dry ice to kill it with CO2 (as the AVMA guidelines for euthanasia suggested as a possible method) and the drat thing moved away and didn't come back. Disappointing! Should have used a better bait. Next time try rare gemstones.
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Jordanis posted:I can't have houseplants because the cat will relentlessly seek them out, eat parts of them, and then barf those parts up. Every day until the plant is gone. Sounds like you need to switch to terrariums, which also gets rid of the whole "maintenance" issue. I have one in my bedroom that I haven't touched in three years except to dust, and the plant is perfectly happy.
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crabcakes66 posted:Boy this went from laughing at hilariously obvious things like 15 different kinds of windows and massively oversized pillars to smug douchebaggery criticizing minor details that don't really look that bad. The brass n' glass in every room does look tacky and awful.
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Youth Decay posted:The brass n' glass in every room does look tacky and awful. House plants. The greatest crime.
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Oh hey speaking of tacky This house just confuses me. It was built in 1969, yet it's clearly meant to look 50s mid-century modern/Barbie dreamhouse but then you've got a lot of 80s decor so it all kind of clashes into a  of course there's a carpeted bathroom      ]  Linoleum straight outta my high school cafeteria     "lol we're selling this place for $835,000"     Exterior is remarkably "normal" at least 
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For how gaudy everything is, that kitchen is painfully bland.
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This is from 10,000 pages back but w/ethere wolf posted:This just makes me wonder if anyone has ever tried to fake floorboards/joists on their ceiling for a more rustic look. At my mom's, not only are there fake foam beam joists, they are actually covering up real 2xwhatever ceiling joists that protrude through the ceiling, as we found out when we attempted to take one down to see how it'd look. This was for a quick remodel, and she didn't want to re-do the ceiling texture (which was left smooth under the foam beams and looked like rear end exposed), so we ended up leaving them. At least now they're the same cream color as the walls, unlike the original poo poo brown which stuck out like a sore thumb against the white ceiling. Why the joists stick down like that is beyond me. Maybe the ceiling was originally lower before being raised to its current 8' height? Who knows.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Sounds like you need to switch to terrariums, which also gets rid of the whole "maintenance" issue. I have one in my bedroom that I haven't touched in three years except to dust, and the plant is perfectly happy. The terrariums are full of snakes.
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Youth Decay posted:Oh hey speaking of tacky
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Chemmy posted:I like the idea that a bunch of goons only live in houses designed by contemporary architects, filled with important heirloom furniture placed by interior designers. Counterpoint: my domiciles have not cost $3 million.
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Apart from that gaudy bathroom complex, 99% of the problems are wallpaper, paint, and carpet. From that angle, the kitchen floor isn't too bad; replacing cabinets or just the doors plus a new countertop would make that a perfectly serviceable kitchen. I'd buy that thing and spend a few weekends updating the decorating. It's a boring house without the themed rooms and I'm OK with that.
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That kitchen ceiling is just sad.
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Youth Decay posted:Oh hey speaking of tacky Everything about this looks like a Mormon temple. But colorful. 
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I'm not going to lie. It's pretty tacky, but I love it. It so over the top it wraps back around to awesome. I even like the terrazzo flooring. Except the pink bedroom. That's a little much.
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If I bought that house I would only consider changing things in the kitchen. The rest of it was considered opulent when it was put in and has held up amazingly well (probably because they used high quality materials to begin with). If you can handle the intensity of the colors it is actually really nice. Finishing it in up to date styling with materials of similar quality would cost a fortune. It's not crappy construction.
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