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Platystemon posted:Front doors with glass are terrible because you can’t sneak up on the door, see Jehova’s Witnesses, and sneak away without them knowing you’re home. You can fix that. In a cheap and slightly tacky way perfect for the crappy construction thread. Cheaper than curtains!  https://www.amazon.com/Bloss-Non-adhesive-Static-Privacy-Stained/dp/B01CG60XXO  https://www.amazon.com/Rabbitgoo-Decorative-Privacy-Adhesive-Control/dp/B00RDVD56U  https://www.amazon.com/Con-Tact-Covering-Self-Adhesive-Privacy-Frosty/dp/B0179QL1OG
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Facebook Aunt posted:You can fix that. In a cheap and slightly tacky way perfect for the crappy construction thread. Cheaper than curtains! Nah, you can still see shadows through those. Crappy Construction Solution™: put a solid layer of duck tape over the window, and install the translucent junk over that. Goon solution: keep the shades closed on every window and never turn on any lights inside. Walla. No backlighting, no shadows Platystemon fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Platystemon posted:Nah, you can still see shadows through those. LOL at you if you aren't so pale and sunless to be nearly translucent yourself.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I just open the door and say "Thank you, but everyone in this household is happy with their relationship with Jesus." It gets the message across without throwing up "I need spiritual help" signals and without being an rear end in a top hat.
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After finding the amazing McMansions tumblr from this thread, I thought I'd share a link that popped up in my work email this morning: http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/12/07/john-edwards-wants-6-9-million-chapel-hill-home.html John Edwards is selling his mansion and wants 6.9M for it, and there are photos. For a refresher, this dude ran against Obama in 2008, was a shallow blowhard, and was cheating on his wife in a pretty stupid and flagrant way. It was one of the few times the National Enquirer broke a story. I can't save/post pictures at the moment, but you should click into the slideshow. There is a full basketball stadium and a gift wrapping room up in that mess.
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That is the blandest, most boring, white bread way to spend 7 million on a house I've ever seen.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Otoh its the LDS church, gently caress em. When the Jehovah's Witnesses show up, take their literature, and save it for when the Mormons show up. And vice versa. Gunjin posted:That is the blandest, most boring, white bread way to spend 7 million on a house I've ever seen. It's got huge libraries that contain what look to be actual books, many of which have probably been read. I can't hate it. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Phanatic posted:When the Jehovah's Witnesses show up, take their literature, and save it for when the Mormons show up. And vice versa. I am more sure it's a "books by the yard" sort of thing, which triggers my hatred.
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Phanatic posted:When the Jehovah's Witnesses show up, take their literature, and save it for when the Mormons show up. And vice versa. Put up a free pamphlet rack for them to browse: http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/ http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/who-will-be-eaten-first/
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Samizdata posted:I am more sure it's a "books by the yard" sort of thing, which triggers my hatred. Maybe. That house is big and expensive, but also not given to the ostentatious ornamentation that goes along with McMansion bookshelves full of books by the yard, it's not draped in chandeliers and fake Louis XVI chairs. And Edwards might be an amoral ambulance chaser but he's also a well-educated lawyer who was married to an actual best-selling author, he and his ex are probably pretty well-read. It's bland compared to a bunch of the poo poo that shows up here, but I think this is nice:  And I'd be willing to commit crimes for a house with this room:  It's not one of those studies where the homeowner thinks that the darker the wood the more impressive the study is. I love those double doors, and I desperately want that much book space. Biggest problem I have with it is carpet. And that bar in the rec room clashes like hell.
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My whole point was that said owner struck me, from his behaviour, as shallow as hell and more concerned with appearance than anything else.
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The lack of a ladder to reach all those books makes my suspicious, but I suppose it could be pushed away or out of frame or something. Honestly the thing that bugs me the most about that house is that it appears that they just connected a boring but passable big house to a nearby barn-turned-rec-center with some sort of malignant hallway that seems to be growing a series of townhouses along its length. I appreciate that you would want to be able to get to your pool without going outside, but the method reminds me of some sort of DIY house-stitching, not a $7m property.
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Shirec posted:After finding the amazing McMansions tumblr from this thread, I thought I'd share a link that popped up in my work email this morning: http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/12/07/john-edwards-wants-6-9-million-chapel-hill-home.html I agree that it's a bland house, but to be fair, that $6.9M pricetag does come with 102 acres of land "less than 3 miles" from town.
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kid sinister posted:I agree that it's a bland house, but to be fair, that $6.9M pricetag does come with 102 acres of land "less than 3 miles" from town. True, and I agree it's not a disaster, but like others have said, it's bland as all hell. It doesn't really strike me as having much personality at all, except for those book rooms. And for the land, I will cross quote this post from the NC thread The Muppets On PCP posted:the property itself is shaped like one of those dildos with the clit tickler attachment
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He's a lawyer and a politician, most of those books aren't going to be anything interesting, it'll be various legal texts and reference books (probably several out of date editions of the same one as well), bullshit books on leadership, and "inspirational" biographies. Maybe some books of famous quotes.
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I have two front doors, the first one is solid on the bottom half with glass on the top half. Then 4 feet behind that is the second front door which has a windows that spans the entire height of the door. Once I was downstairs in my underwear because I'd just gotten out of bed, not a care in the world. I heard a knock at the door when I was in front of it and looked and saw two political doorknockers. I froze for a second, then scurried upstairs. So that's my windowed front door story.
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Haven't seen a mansion that followed the design pattern of Daisy chaining a bunch of trailers together
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moist turtleneck posted:Haven't seen a mansion that followed the design pattern of Daisy chaining a bunch of trailers together Wasn't there a Red Green episode where he does this with Duct Tape?
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ogopogo posted:Wasn't there a Red Green episode where he does this with Duct Tape? You could tell me there was a Red Green episode where he makes the Human Centipede out of duct tape and I'd believe you.
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The inspiration for innumerable science fiction settings.
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Unuronically love this and would live there.
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I like that they even color-coordinated.
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I hate to be the one who bursts the bubble... http://www.hoax-slayer.com/redneck-mansion.shtml
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I hate to be the one who bursts the bubble... So it's a theater set, which means the construction techniques used to put that together were even more questionable.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Put up a free pamphlet rack for them to browse: Oh god, chick tracts, gently caress that guy, I'm glad he's dead. Only good thing to happen in 2016
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Baronjutter posted:When I was in Ukraine in a lovely 2nd world apartment tower that was the first time I ever saw a lock that needed a key to be used from the inside. It means if the door is locked you can't get OUT without finding your key, that seemed totally hosed up. I don't expect panic hardware on someone's apartment or building door, but no door should ever need a key to get out. A lot of commercial buildings have these locks, it's the reason for all the 'THIS DOOR MUST REMAIN UNLOCKED WHILE THIS BUILDING IS OCCUPIED' signs.
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Is that where they got the inspiration for Violetta's compound in New Vegas?
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Reminds me of the cover to the book "Ready Player One" - which maybe the artist actually saw that photo at some point, now I think about it.
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Leperflesh posted:Reminds me of the cover to the book "Ready Player One" - which maybe the artist actually saw that photo at some point, now I think about it. Well, tbf to the artist, that's how the low income housing the protagonist lives in is actually described in the book. Just stacked trailers with an external scaffolding for stairs.
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I rent the bottom half of a small house, with the elderly landlords living upstairs. The only entrance from the street is behind a floor-to-ceiling metal gate that leads into a breezeway. The gate lock is a double barrel, but you can also release it from the inside with an electric buzzer button. I wondered about this when I moved in, because a power failure would prevent you from opening the gate without a key, but I didn't think about it too much. A few months ago someone jimmied the gate lock overnight and stole my bicycle from the breezeway. Ever since then, the landlords have started adding a Club, like you'd use on a steering wheel, to the inside of the front gate at night. this means that you now need two different keys to open the gate and escape if there's a power failure at night. It takes about 15 seconds to untangle the Club from the gate's wrought-iron grille if you've done it before and know the technique, and you're not under stress or choking on smoke or dropping the keys in a panic. I just hope that if a fire starts, it's not in a place that blocks the back door.
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Sagebrush posted:I rent the bottom half of a small house, with the elderly landlords living upstairs. The only entrance from the street is behind a floor-to-ceiling metal gate that leads into a breezeway. The gate lock is a double barrel, but you can also release it from the inside with an electric buzzer button. I wondered about this when I moved in, because a power failure would prevent you from opening the gate without a key, but I didn't think about it too much. At that point I'd start looking for a way to add a ladder or pile of crates that would allow me to jump the fence. New Mcmansionhell has something I've never seen before.  What is that tub thing?! there wolf fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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there wolf posted:At that point I'd start looking for a way to add a ladder or pile of crates that would allow me to jump the fence No, I think you misunderstand when I say "gate" (not my house but very similar)  The gate completely encloses the entrance and there's no way around it. Being inside without the key is like being in jail. My apartment has a second entrance in the back, but it just leads to an enclosed courtyard shared by all the houses in the row -- you have to go through someone's house to get from the courtyard to the street. If the gate is locked and there's a fire at the back of the house, my best option is to try and run upstairs (already a potential death sentence), batter down the landlords' door, and jump out their second-floor windows. Or do some kind of a badass roll through the fire into the backyard, then hope the other houses aren't also on fire. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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there wolf posted:At that point I'd start looking for a way to add a ladder or pile of crates that would allow me to jump the fence. I think it's just a regular shower enclosure adjoining a spa tub. The gap at the bottom of the show enclosure between the shower and the tub allows the tub to overflow into the shower and down the drain instead of onto the floor if the tub is too full. Maybe a custom job.
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Sagebrush posted:No, I think you misunderstand when I say "gate" I think we know how this ends. 
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Sagebrush posted:No, I think you misunderstand when I say "gate" Pretty much every house in the San Francisco Sunset district looks like this, and they all have gates you can only get out of with the buzzer working. You can exit through the garage (if you can get to it - most of these houses don't join the entryway to the garage), an upper story window, or out the back. Getting over your backyard fence may be difficult, especially for children, elderly, disabled, etc. but trespassing is better than burning alive, so yeah. Note that a garage door opened with an electrical opener still must have a bypass/unlock feature, usually a rope with a handle you can pull that disengages the motor so you can lift the door open manually. I'd suggest the best solution for your gate issue might be some kind of emergency back-up battery control that permits the buzzer to open the electric strike even when the main power is out, but I have no idea if such a thing is commonly used or if you'd have to hack something together. e. here's some options. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Sagebrush posted:because a power failure would prevent you from opening the gate without a key That depends on the electronic lock. Is it a magnetic lock or does it release the latch? Magnetic locks open in a power outage.
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there wolf posted:At that point I'd start looking for a way to add a ladder or pile of crates that would allow me to jump the fence. This is getting silly. It's a mirror. It's a bidet. The rest fits the blog fine, but these are big time reaches.
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glynnenstein posted:This is getting silly. It's a mirror. It's a bidet. The rest fits the blog fine, but these are big time reaches. Sometime she comments on less physical things and more statements about the kinds of people who live in McMansions (which she's said she's familiar with from childhood.) A mirror like that? In that house? Yeah, that's a narcissism wall.
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glynnenstein posted:This is getting silly. It's a mirror. It's a bidet. The rest fits the blog fine, but these are big time reaches. That's the problem, architecture and interior decorating are two different things and it almost never pays to have the same person do both.
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