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there wolf posted:Wallpaper is coming back, and you can get some really cool stuff with digital printing. Still kind of expensive, though, which is why I think people are doing the one-wall pop instead of whole rooms. I was debating this monstera print for a while. We did a wallpaper accent wall in my girlfriend's office, she wanted some old damask shabby chic stuff. I think it turned out alright, but it was a giant pain. 
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The place I work at makes mobile shelters including self-expanding style. I haven't seen one in person due to them not having any orders in the 6 months I've been here so far, but apparently they're mostly used for flight simulators.
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Iron Crowned posted:The place I work at makes mobile shelters including self-expanding style. I haven't seen one in person due to them not having any orders in the 6 months I've been here so far, but apparently they're mostly used for flight simulators. You work for Dahir Insaat??! 
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Aug 7, 2017 17:26
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Facebook Aunt posted:You work for Dahir Insaat??! no
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Iron Crowned posted:The place I work at makes mobile shelters including self-expanding style. I haven't seen one in person due to them not having any orders in the 6 months I've been here so far, but apparently they're mostly used for flight simulators. How does a company stay solvent for 6 months with no orders? Is it a front for drug smuggling?
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Aug 7, 2017 18:06
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KillHour posted:How does a company stay solvent for 6 months with no orders? Is it a front for drug smuggling? We build a lot of things, just no expanding mobile shelters at the moment
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Aug 7, 2017 18:11
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spog posted:Looks cool but I bet the company name 'Tenfold' refers to the cost of their stuff, compared to existing products on the market. At launch, they were talking around $130K.
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Aug 7, 2017 18:12
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Haifisch posted:Admitedly it's harder to do fancy patterns with paint, but considering how many godawful wallpaper patterns I've seen in old house photos...   I won't bother linking every single picture because all of it is extremely my poo poo so click below and enter the wondrous world of wallpaper. http://degournay.com/wallpapers E: Oh this not the interior design thread. My bad. Enjoy the unsolicited wallpaper.
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Aug 7, 2017 18:19
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People defending wallpaper in this thread lmao NOW I've seen EVERYTHING
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Aug 7, 2017 18:21
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Hey where did you find this photo of my bedroom before I took a loving sledgehammer to it all.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Hey where did you find this photo of my bedroom before I took a loving sledgehammer to it all.
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Aug 7, 2017 18:27
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Hambilderberglar posted:You just need better wallpaper: 
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Hambilderberglar posted:You just need better wallpaper:
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I think the patterns on wallpaper can be cool and stuff, but wallpaper is such a horrible material to work with that it more or less ruins the wall you attach it to. They need to make wallpaper backed with the same adhesive as used on 3M sticky notes. So you can stick it up and it'll stay there for however long you want it there, but when you're done, one person can just grab a corner and peel it off and leave no residue behind. original idea do not steal etc. etc.
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Aug 7, 2017 21:53
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Leperflesh posted:I think the patterns on wallpaper can be cool and stuff, but wallpaper is such a horrible material to work with that it more or less ruins the wall you attach it to. IKEA sells wall decals that are exactly that. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/decoration/16306/ In some places, wallpaper never left. Australians love it.* *Source: Me, an American who has never been to Australia but watches a lot of Australian home renovation competition reality tv shows
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Aug 7, 2017 21:56
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You can also get those vinyl wall decals that aren't even really sticky if you prefer, which I think are usually restricted to kids decorations and those football heads? They only work well on smooth walls, but it's not like you can run your wallpaper over a textured wall anyway.
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Aug 7, 2017 22:01
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my house is completely covered in Fathead sports wall decals. every square inch covered with the hottest baseball and volleyball stars
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Aug 7, 2017 22:14
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FCKGW posted:People defending wallpaper in this thread lmao NOW I've seen EVERYTHING Anyone defending wallpaper has never tried to replace it with paint. Especially when it was put on by trained monkeys. I honestly hate nearly all wallpaper patterns anyways, but to each their own with personal taste. However it practically destroys walls or at least makes them about 100x harder to paint if you ever decide you don't want lovely floral patterns down the road. Or at least any wallpaper I've ever dealt with does.
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shortspecialbus posted:Anyone defending wallpaper has never tried to replace it with paint. Especially when it was put on by trained monkeys. I've painted a room with improperly removed wallpaper before. The paste left hundreds of little pockmarks that wouldn't take paint from a roller. I wanted to die.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:23
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lmao if you're trying to put up wallpaper diy. The pros have automated rollers and stuff.
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Aug 7, 2017 23:40
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The house we moved into when I was a kid had four or five layers of wallpaper. My dad started to strip it, got sick of that very quickly. and just hung new drywall in the entire house.
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Has anyone invented some kind of "wallpaper" that goes over old wallpaper and is easily paintable? I realize there are limits to this approach, principally putting it over the fifth layer of old wallpaper and watching it peel off the wall. But it might be useful if there's only one or two layers, and it would provide a smoother surface for paint if you removed the old wallpaper and didn't want to recondition your moonscape walls
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Aug 8, 2017 00:44
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Bags of sand or cement?
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"When we put them up, they were bags of concrete, and, well, time makes fools of us all."
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Platystemon posted:Bags of sand or cement? Well the bags do say quikrete on them.... Pretty lazy way to make a wall, it's a lot less ugly once the paper bags weather away and expose the concrete though.
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Aug 8, 2017 00:59
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Never use that many bags. Order a truck.
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people do dumb poo poo, at least it entertains us 
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Wait... that actually works? 
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Elem7 posted:Wait... that actually works? Just add water! You’ll get a really lovely wall if make it like that because the water won’t penetrate deep into the pile, the bags won’t bond to each other, and there’s no aggregate. But if the stacked bags held when they were dry, they’ll hold when they become a pile of rocks, too.
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Elem7 posted:Wait... that actually works? Uh, yeah. Here, have a beautiful photo of Boynton Beach Inlet.  Nearly dead center of that photo, that grey lump on the right... crotch? Of the bridge where the walkway passes under it and it turns to beach. That whole retaining wall was made of stacked bags of quickcrete rip rap. It works great. You see that allllll over South Florida. https://www.quikrete.com/productlines/riprap.asp or http://www.sakrete.com/products/rip-rap , which has better photos. Also here at http://www.slingbag.net/erosion.html https://www.quikrete.com/pdfs/projects/riprapprojectsanderosioncontrol.pdf for a pdf. Also gently caress y'all I love old wallpaper. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Earthbag building is a thing, yes. They can look quite nice and if built/plastered correctly last a very long time. When they're built incorrectly, well.... 
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canyoneer posted:In some places, wallpaper never left. Australians love it.* No, that's just TV-land lies. I've never been in a house with wallpaper here. I mean, it exists, but I don't know anyone who has it.
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Leperflesh posted:I think the patterns on wallpaper can be cool and stuff, but wallpaper is such a horrible material to work with that it more or less ruins the wall you attach it to. https://www.tempaperdesigns.com/demo-video Surprisingly, this exists! My wife is interested in it. Also, the couple demonstrating the wallpaper application in the video whip out a ladder so they can measure an 8 foot wall.
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Youth Decay posted:Earthbag building is a thing, yes. why no inspector, i'm not building a house, i'm just vertically extending the dirt.
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SoundMonkey posted:why no inspector, i'm not building a house, i'm just vertically extending the dirt. The funny thing is that a lot of the construction with earthbag houses is in developing countries by legitimate NGOs/relief agencies but on the other side you have complete woo-woo bullshit.
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Youth Decay posted:The funny thing is that a lot of the construction with earthbag houses is in developing countries by legitimate NGOs/relief agencies but on the other side you have complete woo-woo bullshit. a friend of mine lives in a cob house and the most surprising thing about that is that they're so adept at not mentioning it every ten seconds that i didn't know for months this is a rare quality
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Gromit posted:No, that's just TV-land lies. I've never been in a house with wallpaper here. I mean, it exists, but I don't know anyone who has it. Well, the people they recruit for House Rules and The Block must be more with-it than you 
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FogHelmut posted:The house we moved into when I was a kid had four or five layers of wallpaper. My dad started to strip it, got sick of that very quickly. and just hung new drywall in the entire house. And the cycle of abuse continues 
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Whatever your wallpaper costs to buy and install, you can probably quintuple that figure for the value you just removed from your house if you ever want to sell it.
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