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Simple, poors have very simple cheap houses. To differentiate my mansion I'll have as many roof pitches as possible, then the rich will know I'm one of them.
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Combination of that and designing from the inside out, conceiving of the house as a series of rooms with various features (like vaulted ceilings) and then however the outside looks is how it looks.
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Jul 21, 2017 14:54
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hailthefish posted:Combination of that and designing from the inside out, conceiving of the house as a series of rooms with various features (like vaulted ceilings) and then however the outside looks is how it looks. Hey man, I live inside my house, not outside; so who cares what the roof looks like?
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Jul 21, 2017 14:58
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Okay, so ignoring the terrible roofline (and exterior wooden walls) and the decorating choices on the inside, I will say that I really like the stonework on the inside and how it echoes the stonework on the outside. It is not necessarily how I'd want to lay out my ideal house, but I really like the idea of having this stone double-sided fireplace as a divider between the kitchen and the living room, and having the same stonework be used on the exterior helps it from seeming out of place. Of course, then the rest of the house is kind of a tire fire in terms of decorating, and they don't do anything to keep the rest of the house connected with the stones as well, so it's like they had this interesting concept and then refused to follow it all the way, which is a bummer. But I think there's a good idea in there, at least.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:21
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Baronjutter posted:Also a lot of people just go "mid century is in!!" and do everything from tiki to mid-century kitch. The key word in mid-century modern is modern. Quality wood in simple straight, usually horizontal lines. It's not just "oh is this thing from the 50's? Perfect!!" Yes!!! There were still many styles of that time period. I stick with Danish since that's my love. Also I know it's hard with vintage furniture but keeping in the same wood color family as well! Don't mix a blonde Heywood Wakefield dining set with some dark walnut sidebar. poo poo just looks tacked on. Or anything atomic vs brutalist.
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Jul 21, 2017 17:51
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I think if I build a billionaire house, I'd want to go something like the places they based the house in Ex Machina on. Not so much the storage container look, but I do like the smaller topside units as the visible parts, with minimal scenery disruption, with most of the house underground. I think I'd probably go for a more Bewitched house look for the overall look, though. Or maybe The Dick Van Dyke show look. Anything that wouldn't match would have to be hidden in wall panels, though. Like a flatscreen disguised behind a spinning mirror or an actual piece of art that I liked.
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Jul 21, 2017 18:27
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hailthefish posted:While definitely a McMansion, it's one of the least bad ones I've seen. Probably because even a pastiche of mid-century styles is both more cohesive and aligned with current trends than your usual Tuscan-villa cum French chateau cum Canadian hunting lodge poo poo you usually get with mcmansions. cheese eats mouse posted:Yes!!! There were still many styles of that time period. I stick with Danish since that's my love. Also I know it's hard with vintage furniture but keeping in the same wood color family as well! Don't mix a blonde Heywood Wakefield dining set with some dark walnut sidebar. poo poo just looks tacked on. Or anything atomic vs brutalist. While this is all very good to know from history of design perspective, it also seems a bit dumb in the "what people actually put in their houses" perspective. I don't believe people wouldn't have mixed those styles even back in the day as they bought new pieces and sets, and put them in with the old. If the idea is that knowing the difference between this stuff can help you style-mix more pleasingly, that's one thing. But it's silly to say that you can't mix this stuff at all and not have it look ridiculous because design-nerd-pedentry.
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Jul 21, 2017 19:27
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cheese eats mouse posted:Yes!!! There were still many styles of that time period. I stick with Danish since that's my love. Also I know it's hard with vintage furniture but keeping in the same wood color family as well! Don't mix a blonde Heywood Wakefield dining set with some dark walnut sidebar. poo poo just looks tacked on. Or anything atomic vs brutalist. Cool, I mostly go after the Danish stuff too.
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Jul 21, 2017 20:27
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Youth Decay posted:All those 50s houses had one roofline, let's put 7 on ours. The worst part of the roofline situation is the back has perfectly cogent decent-looking rooflines, and the front could have but it's like they deliberately offset things by a couple feet just to make MORE ROOFLINES. 
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Jul 21, 2017 22:09
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hailthefish posted:The worst part of the roofline situation is the back has perfectly cogent decent-looking rooflines, and the front could have but it's like they deliberately offset things by a couple feet just to make MORE ROOFLINES. I see rooflines like that on the tiny late 1940s/early 1950s boom houses where they added on a bedroom/den/bathroom, and on McMansions. I always get so amused. "Oh, I see the McRiches used the same architect as the Jones across town." To be fair, most of the time the older houses with additions have saner roof lines. And the icing on the cake with that McMCM is how so much of that period was about bringing the outside in & having the interior of the house interact with the exterior in a transitional way. Here they've just made a bunch of big windows and didn't even make the roof a part of a cohesive design.
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Jul 22, 2017 01:20
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My parents bungalow was ultra modern in the 1960s. It was the forman's house and he went all experimental with everything. It is the very definition of a white elephant. They bought it dirt cheap and have spent more money fixing it than they would have done if they had bought a normal house. For example, one side of the house was 90% glass, in an open plan house, with air vent heating, built in a time before double glazing, in the north of England. They added in central heating and replaced the single glazing with double glazing. It has not helped with the cold that much. Also there is now a spider colony living in the old air vent system. What somone did was cover one wall (including the fireplace) in the living room with stone. I remember walking in on my mother one day lying down on the floor looking suspiciously at the wall asking if it looked like the floor was bowing to anyone else. When it was investigated it turned out that they hadn't used slabs a couple of inches thick, these were literal 1ft thick slabs on the wall and two foot thick slabs round the fireplace, and they had been cemented in. Whole structure was pulling the house apart. Took large men with a jackhammer several weeks to get it all out of the house and then they rebuilt the fireplace with the stone they managed to save. That's my stone in houses story.
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Jul 22, 2017 09:19
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I loooove this house and especially its wallpaper  Wallpaper close-up    VINTAGE ROTARY TOILET PHONE Y'ALL 
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Jul 23, 2017 03:57
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tag urself im the flame-emblazoned guy fieri-rear end ceiling fan
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Jul 23, 2017 04:51
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I'm the dog lampshades in the room with dog portraits.
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Jul 23, 2017 05:03
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You definitely should have shared the four post bed with the ceiling mounted mirror.
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Jul 23, 2017 05:21
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quote:My grandparents had basically this exact TV. Played soooo much Zelda in front of that thing, sitting on the floor of their sunken living room next to the giant fireplace that was literally never used, surrounded by textured wallpaper. The shiny silver wallpaper was upstairs in the only real, non-master-suite bathroom, and it didn't have white bamboo on it, it had brown and orange and white leaves.
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Jul 23, 2017 05:58
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SoundMonkey posted:tag urself im the flame-emblazoned guy fieri-rear end ceiling fan I'm the mime watching you gently caress 
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Jul 23, 2017 06:26
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Youth Decay posted:I'm the mime watching you gently caress I'm the 7th mirror watching you watch yourself gently caress Melicious fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 08:04
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Melicious posted:I'm the 7th mirror watching you watch yourself
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Jul 23, 2017 08:17
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I'm the unmitigated lack of taste throughout.
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Jul 23, 2017 10:21
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm the unmitigated lack of taste throughout. I don't know. It has . . . character. This is a house people are living in the way they want to live, not a bland beige box where every decision is based on maximising resale value.
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Jul 23, 2017 10:30
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I'm the concept that the kitchen is BLLLLUUUUE!!!!!!!
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Jul 23, 2017 11:17
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So, is nobody else going to mention the phone next to the toilet? These people were ahead of their time.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:23
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The carpet salesman must have been ecstatic that someone finally wanted to buy all his bright teal stock.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:31
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The fact that they have a second living room with a modern television and really comfy chairs makes me wonder if the spanial room is some sort of preserved in time shrine.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:32
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im pretty sure ive taken a poo poo in that that seriously looks like a modern australian park toilet underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 11:33
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learnincurve posted:The fact that they have a second living room with a modern television and really comfy chairs makes me wonder if the spanial room is some sort of preserved in time shrine. Having 2 living rooms was a thing. One fancy for having dignified conversations with guests, one comfortable for watching tv with the family. Back in the 70s one of my aunts literally had a velvet rope blocking access to the "good" living room, so it would always look like she was waiting for a Better Homes and Gardens photoshoot.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:43
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Back in the 1970s our sofas were all wrapped in plastic. I've never known if that was a global thing because it was something you saw in your nan's house and not on TV.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:57
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learnincurve posted:Back in the 1970s our sofas were all wrapped in plastic. I've never known if that was a global thing because it was something you saw in your nan's house and not on TV. In my personal experience it was Greek and Italian families that had plastic wrapped furniture. Typically in the "good" living room that was only used during weddings, christenings and high holidays.
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Jul 23, 2017 12:05
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While people in my extended family have definitely had nice 'formal' living rooms, none of them have ever, to my knowledge, gone for plastic furniture covers. It's something I'm only familiar with from seeing it on TV. The formal living rooms in my extended family all stayed nice because there was no TV in them and no food in them and thus no reason for us kids to ever bother to go in there.
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Jul 23, 2017 12:18
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Indolent Bastard posted:In my personal experience it was Greek and Italian families that had plastic wrapped furniture. Typically in the "good" living room that was only used during weddings, christenings and high holidays. same but my grandmother was from a mennonite background. she still had a 'good' living room (the only one actually, other than a den and downstairs rec room) that only fancy people got to use. in the couple decades they were at that house, through their daughter's wedding, various funerals, etc, nobody was fancy enough to actually set foot in that living room. i'm not sure anyone on earth was fancy enough to sit on that couch without the plastic on it. e: after her funeral we were all sitting around her place seeing if there was anything with especially good memories, and when the furniture was up for discussion, i think nobody wanted any of it because sitting on it would be an affront to everything she held dear. SoundMonkey fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 12:49
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My nan would have removed the plastic for Jesus, but he would still have been told to take his shoes off before coming in the house.
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Jul 23, 2017 13:14
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Facebook Aunt posted:Having 2 living rooms was a thing. One fancy for having dignified conversations with guests, one comfortable for watching tv with the family. Back in the 70s one of my aunts literally had a velvet rope blocking access to the "good" living room, so it would always look like she was waiting for a Better Homes and Gardens photoshoot. Except neither was particularly fancy, so it was really just a question of whether you wanted to be upstairs or downstairs. 
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Jul 23, 2017 16:45
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SoundMonkey posted:tag urself im the flame-emblazoned guy fieri-rear end ceiling fan I'm the strangely wide looking toilet paper roll.
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Jul 24, 2017 14:10
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YamiNoSenshi posted:I'm the strangely wide looking toilet paper roll. Wide angle lenses do hilarious things to close up objects on the edge of the frame.
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Jul 24, 2017 14:29
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Ouhei posted:Wide angle lenses do hilarious things to close up objects on the edge of the frame. I'm going to continue believing in king-sized toilet paper and you can't stop me.
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Jul 24, 2017 16:34
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YamiNoSenshi posted:I'm going to continue believing in king-sized toilet paper and you can't stop me. Wide TP for fat American asses.
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Jul 24, 2017 16:52
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cheese eats mouse posted:Yes!!! There were still many styles of that time period. I stick with Danish since that's my love. Also I know it's hard with vintage furniture but keeping in the same wood color family as well! Don't mix a blonde Heywood Wakefield dining set with some dark walnut sidebar. poo poo just looks tacked on. Or anything atomic vs brutalist. I dunno about the atomic and brutalist. C. Jere for example is pretty brutalist, but most of it looks very good in an atomic setting.
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Jul 24, 2017 16:53
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The thought occurs that the non-Brits won't know about this. It's basically house porn. https://www.theguardian.com/money/series/surreal-estate
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learnincurve posted:The thought occurs that the non-Brits won't know about this. It's basically house porn. https://www.theguardian.com/money/series/surreal-estate I love you for this.
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