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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:That's exactly what I like about it. Welcome to my kitchen laboratory, today we are making frozen pizza
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Anne Whateley posted:I would at least want different edges or a lighter color or some texture or SOMETHING that doesn't make me nervous about not having memorized valence electron numbers What if I wrote LIVE LAUGH LOVE on all the appliances Incidentally, googling for illustrations of the concept led me to this horror: /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4448105/s-l1000-2.0.jpg) HI WELCOME TO MY PINK LIVING ROOM I KNOW A DEAD PERSON DO YOU KNOW ANY DEAD PEOPLE WE'LL ALL DIE SOMEDAY WANNA DO DECOUPAGE WITH THESE OLD MAGAZINES I PUT ON THE FLOOR?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:What if I wrote LIVE LAUGH LOVE on all the appliances I can't decide if the eye-searing pink or the inanity of the quote or the jarring font mismatch offends me most. It's just so... loving... painful to look at.
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I have a great room with an 18' ceiling, I'm thinking the bottom half is going to be shiplap, the top half will be fine-print wallpaper applied directly to brick veneer, and I'll do a LIVE LAUGH LOVE like 65% across the border between the two but it'll be in comic sans with some exceptionally bad kerning in a couple places and maybe a couple letters juuuuuuust a touch off kilter.
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Jun 8, 2017 19:59
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Woah that soap stone looks great. It's not like... soft? Doesn't scratch or damage easily? The 2nd white picture is really my jam, other than the stools.
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Soapstone is awesome, and if you're a super nerd, you can even get acid-resistant bench tops.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:What if I wrote LIVE LAUGH LOVE on all the appliances I'm having trouble reading that quote as meaning anything other than "now that that rear end in a top hat is dead, we've finally got some peace around here."
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Progressive JPEG posted:Does soapstone change color when wet? Not that I've seen. The reason soapstone is used for lab tables and herbivorous dinosaur dream kitchens is it's incredibly dense and non-porous.
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Progressive JPEG posted:Does soapstone change color when wet? It depends on whether you oil it or not. I've got soapstone counters and they are the loving best. No need to seal them or anything, they don't crack or etch, you can put hot pans right on the counters... the goddamn best. But yeah it's personal preference whether or not you like a darker, shiny finish to them. They'll develop a bit of a patina on their own over the years, but lots of people like to speed up that process by putting food safe oil on them like what you'd use on butchertop. If you do that, it looks the same as when they're wet- darker and shiny. Otherwise, they're matte and a little lighter in color. But they won't darken PERMANENTLY from water. It dries right up. As for formal dining rooms, that was a must-have when we were house hunting. We have a lot of dinner parties and really do need the space to extend the dining table all the way. But most places we were looking at would have that- old houses in Chicago pretty much always have a dining room and a tiny kitchen unless they've been gut rehabbed to have an ~open floor plan~ Where I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, it was all newish construction and huge eat-in kitchens, so having that plus a dining room definitely would have been seen as unnecessary and pretentious to most. So regionalism probably plays a big part with this.
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I'm absolutely in love. Sorry about the mess and I definitely need to vacuum but eeeeee Someone buy my dumb ikea couch.
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Nice lamp but the rest of the room looks like a student dorm. That door needs serious cleaning or painting. But yeah, real nice lamp! Is that where it's going? Trying to get rid of one of those sofas?
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Melicious posted:As for formal dining rooms, that was a must-have when we were house hunting. We have a lot of dinner parties and really do need the space to extend the dining table all the way. But most places we were looking at would have that- old houses in Chicago pretty much always have a dining room and a tiny kitchen unless they've been gut rehabbed to have an ~open floor plan~ I mean, if you're a person who entertains, you probably are going to seek out a larger house anyway, where having a formal dining area makes sense, and isn't just a part of the living room that you jammed extra furniture too. But I grew up outside Detroit and our house was older and definitely had a formal dining plus giant eat in kitchen, and most of the newer houses (like 70s-80s built) had separate dining areas but not eat-in kitchens. Was there a trend for bigger kitchens/no separate dining areas in newer homes?
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cheese eats mouse posted:I'm absolutely in love. Sorry about the mess and I definitely need to vacuum but eeeeee
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Haifisch posted:Is that a Klippan? I'm 99% sure I have that same dumb couch, just with a red cover & fewer pillows crowding it. It's the solsta. I put my rooms together with what I had and what I could afford at the time and also was in the middle of depression and craving clutter to keep me happy. Purging now and this is the second room to get a make over. i just finished my bedroom. I also only have two standard closets for storage so that's a fun challenge. Again I rent so I can't do anything about the carpet except clean it and maybe put a rug down. I hate carpet and despise this color. Even if I offered to pay for new floors I think my landlord wants to keep carpet in this "bedroom". And I've tried cleaning that outside door! I don't know what the gently caress is on it to make dirt stick like that. I'm completely frustrated. If anyone has any tips. I have clay soil. cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Did you try a magic eraser? If that didn't work, I would probably just paint it tbh, couldn't get worse. And does that mean the external door opens into this bedroom?
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:I mean, if you're a person who entertains, you probably are going to seek out a larger house anyway, where having a formal dining area makes sense, and isn't just a part of the living room that you jammed extra furniture too. I'm trying to think of a single person I grew up with who had a formal dining room and I'm drawing a blank. My grandparents did, but their house was giant and older than most of the houses I spent time in (it was built in the 70s, most of the subdivisions my friends lived in were built in the 80s and 90s). For sure eat-in kitchens or L-shaped living/dining rooms are, in my experience, pretty typical of newer construction as opposed to a separate dining room. Open floor plans were a super cutting edge mid-century concept, but have really taken over the last 30 years. Older houses have doors and thresholds all over the place, but where I grew up in ranch/condoville, it was all about the "great room." Here in Chicago, all the new construction (as well as every drat gut rehab) is all open space. I'm forever a fan of separate rooms, personally, if only for the chance to change paint colors 
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Bad Munki posted:I have a great room with an 18' ceiling, I'm thinking the bottom half is going to be shiplap, the top half will be fine-print wallpaper applied directly to brick veneer, and I'll do a LIVE LAUGH LOVE like 65% across the border between the two but it'll be in comic sans with some exceptionally bad kerning in a couple places and maybe a couple letters juuuuuuust a touch off kilter. And plastic sheeting on the floor, I assume? Or does that ruin the surprise.
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Bad Munki posted:I have a great room with an 18' ceiling, I'm thinking the bottom half is going to be shiplap, the top half will be fine-print wallpaper applied directly to brick veneer, and I'll do a LIVE LAUGH LOVE like 65% across the border between the two but it'll be in comic sans with some exceptionally bad kerning in a couple places and maybe a couple letters juuuuuuust a touch off kilter. 
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Haifisch posted:I found a wallpaper just for you: tag self im sad fan
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I'm a goldmine of vapidity.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:I'm a goldmine of vapidity. *checks queue history* i've seen worse
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Haifisch posted:I found a wallpaper just for you: im the weird coaxial cable port in the wall in tyool 2017
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Haifisch posted:I found a wallpaper just for you: I'm the Winchester Mystery House number of oddly placed staircases in that house.
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Turtlicious posted:im the weird coaxial cable port in the wall in tyool 2017 What do TVs use in your area? Or is this a "who had cable these days" thing?
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Anne Whateley posted:Did you try a magic eraser? If that didn't work, I would probably just paint it tbh, couldn't get worse. And does that mean the external door opens into this bedroom? I'll try those next I forgot they existed. If not then I'm not opposed to painting it. I'm touching up the trim too. Yes it leads to my back yard and gets a bunch of traffic from me, the dogs and guests.
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Just got done reading through this after the females-have-all-the-power-and-i-ruined-my-floor-joists thread. What a journey. Earlier this year my GF (fiancee after this trip) drove up to Queensland because we thought we'd see the reef before the Australian government let it die. We stayed in a tiny town called Miles on the way back and stayed in a place that was repurposed as holiday cabins from old Air Force bunkers used during WW2. Big concrete blocks that were set in to the earth because it gets pretty loving hot during the summer. But the things hadn't been updated at all since they were originally set up for people to stay, and everything in there was immaculate and very well looked after. There were even old magazines from the 60s and 70s still in there. I'd love to go back just to stay in these rooms, but there isn't really anything to do in or near that place. We only chose it because it was exactly halfway between our previous stop over and our final destination. The kitchenette was spotless. The countertops didn't even have scratches or marks or anything. Probably because of the plastic over the breakfast bar thing.  You can see the dividing wall running down the centre. One side had the queen bed and the shower, the other had the kitchen and extra beds.     This was taken from the outside, there was a little sunroom with some chairs and a bookcase. The toilet was also in this area. 
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^^^ Quonset hut house is dope. https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/az/concho/669-county-road-8235-stanford/pid_18337473/ quote:Contemporary eccentric full log sided custom home on 20+/- acres for the cat fancier! If you love cats this is the home for you! If not bring your sandblaster! Custom build, hardwood kitchen cabinets (Oak, Lacewood, and Bocote) artistically accented with river rock. Cat walkways and in great room Medieval cat castle with different levels (stone). All interior doors custom built (wood). Must see to believe it does exist!!! Once in a lifetime find extremely fun home! Well I tell you what I loving love cats, like volunteer weekly at the cat shelter and have a cat instagram love cats, and this house is hideous. That being said, built in cat walkways would be fun.   There are 41 pictures in that listing and each is worse than the last. I wonder how many cats lived there, and how much it smells like pee.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:^^^ If cats made horror movies, this is what the scary house would look like. When cats drop acid and have a bad trip, this is what they see.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/az/concho/669-county-road-8235-stanford/pid_18337473/ It's like one of those "LOL HOW RANDOME" Doom maps where someone just replaced all the textures with cat photos. I'm sure it cost a fortune to get all of that done. I'm also pretty sure it would be like moving in to Pintrest.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Well I tell you what I loving love cats, like volunteer weekly at the cat shelter and have a cat instagram love cats, and this house is hideous. That being said, built in cat walkways would be fun. There's a huge difference between designing a room for the benefit of your cats and designing a room for the benefit of your cat fandom. One can be done non-hideously, with effort, and improves the quality of life of at least one creature in the home. The other is... this thing.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:What do TVs use in your area? Or is this a "who had cable these days" thing? I don't know anyone who still has a cable box / satellite.
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... most people have cable and cable internet. gotta have a coax to make either of those things happen... you feelin alright?
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Also builders aren't going to skip putting a coax port in just because a few people might not use it. The most hassle it can cause is making you hide it behind furniture.
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Shamelessly crossposting from the Crappy Construction thread:Lime Tonics posted:hair stairs,
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Shamelessly crossposting from the Crappy Construction thread:
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Shamelessly crossposting from the Crappy Construction thread: Does the carpet match the stair runners?
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