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Perhaps wood panelling will be the wood panelling of the future! Youth Decay posted:Time for another sad remodel! But man, that garage door-- doesn't it get cold in Denver? Isn't that going to be a really chilly room in January since that garage door looks to be mostly glass? Or maybe that's when you retreat to the second, upstairs living room. I wish they hadn't done the ugly brick thing. That feels like the worst part of it. It doesn't go with anything and just makes the place look like you couldn't agree with your spouse and you each chose half the first floor. I love that cute little nook in the kitchen. Granted, I'd use it as a pantry, but it's still a lovely little detail that's lost now. 
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I Ike the remodel. Sorry.
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Aug 9, 2017 02:54
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Oh hey a McModern That garage door is going to suck to heat in one of the coldest cities in the US ahahaha
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I Ike the remodel. Sorry. Same, but the brick facade is questionable. The old design was pretty bland.
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Aug 9, 2017 03:18
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I like the interior, wish the brick was just one wall. I find the exterior to be pretty unattractive though.
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Aug 9, 2017 03:30
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Youth Decay posted:AFTER You mean those stupid skinny pre-rusted steel columns?
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Youth Decay posted:Time for another sad remodel! I was thinking "what, it doesn't look so bad" but then I realised it was the Before photos. I like a lot of the styles in the remodel (not the garage door) but not the way they've done them and that house a) really didn't need it doing b) wasn't an appropriate canvas for it.
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Aug 9, 2017 08:46
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The remodel is fine. Describing it as monstrosity is a disservice to monstrosities. I'm sure it will look dated, but it's nearly doubled the functional space, and Denver is a hot market.
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Aug 9, 2017 13:23
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Youth Decay posted:Option 3: rip out your cabinet doors and go mason jar crazy (I actually like this kitchen but drat it looks like Pinterest threw up on it) Knives should be a little closer to light switch IMO
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Aug 9, 2017 13:33
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Just hang the knives pointy end down.
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Aug 9, 2017 14:51
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Youth Decay posted:Time for another sad remodel! How depressing. That was a great looking house before it was gutted that someone had clearly put a lot of effort into. Now it's just.... ugh.
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Aug 9, 2017 15:06
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Was there a garage door there before? If you're not using your garage, converting it into livable space is giving you room that would otherwise go to waste.
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Aug 9, 2017 15:25
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I take it all back, they're not even using real Tolix chairs. All that work and you get the lovely off-brand. I can but imagine what other Restoration Hardware Horrors lie beyond.
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Aug 9, 2017 15:26
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I'm not normally on the "keep the design original and pure!" train, but holy hell talk about totally missing the loving point of that house! There's plenty on the interior that would have been fine on other houses (cool and good even) but on that it just seems like someone cut a big hole in that house and dropped an ultra modern box on top of it. Like, drat...an updated kitchen and some other small updates would have been plenty.
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Why would you make the interior of any house look like a converted Victorian warehouse? I know of abut five in my town alone that have been converted into flats and houses which are now sat virtually empty, so it's not like there is a lack of the real thing.
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learnincurve posted:Why would you make the interior of any house look like a converted Victorian warehouse? I know of abut five in my town alone that have been converted into flats and houses which are now sat virtually empty, so it's not like there is a lack of the real thing. I love the open, one-room "warehouse-convert" dwellings, but it only works with specific geometries. It looks a bit wonky if you just start converting individual rooms in a free-standing house. You really need to have the open space and a tall ceiling to actually have things like support structures going through the place, instead of just gluing i-beams to the ceiling of a 10-foot room.
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Aug 9, 2017 17:41
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The remodel is fine except for the stupid rear end garage door. It's bad enough getting bugs and pollen and poo poo in an unscreened window. That thing is going to allow birds and all sorts of poo poo inside. Terrible. If you want to be outside that badly GO OUTSIDE
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PRADA SLUT posted:Was there a garage door there before? It's Denver, you're definitely using your garage in the winter.
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I don't think it's a converted garage is it? Looks to me like they just put the big pull down window thing in the existing living room. Looking closer that's the same kitchen in shot but with different lighting.
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learnincurve posted:I don't think it's a converted garage is it? Looks to me like they just put the big pull down window thing in the existing living room. Looking closer that's the same kitchen in shot but with different lighting. Living room was in the front, they cut it in half into an office/den/entry and the obnoxiously long open dining area. I... actually don't know what the nu-living used to be. The old kitchen had a window on that side. The geometry of the house was changed so much it's hard to tell what's what. OH I get it! New kitchen/dining is where the old bedrooms were (shifted to the left) and new living area + bathroom is where the old kitchen/dining was. New floorplan is here. Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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I still think the garage door is fine. If they decide they don't want it down the road, they could just stick a big-rear end window there and it would look normal. My building has a giant set of fold-back windows that open up the front of the building (like you can walk out of them onto the patio) and it's really nice to relax there in summer. I would have put something like it instead of a literal garage door, but having that convertible indoor/outdoor space is great. It's a much different feeling than just some open windows. 
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My googling has raised some concern about having a bloody huge glass door opening inwards in a city with 55 inches average snowfall. Also I see no way of putting up curtains or blinds.
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Aug 10, 2017 00:23
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The design-build group that remodeled that house has made it their specialty to transform old Denver houses in the same way. Massively expand them, add a "pop-top" to single-stories, give them a west coast modern exterior and ~polished industrial~ interior so they're completely unrecognizable. I suppose it's cheaper to use a foundation and frame already built than to build an entire new McModern. Most of their work is with fixer-uppers and ugly suburban tract housing, and they do a decent job with those. They just need to keep their hands off of perfectly decent 1930s bungalows.
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Youth Decay posted:I suppose it's cheaper to use a foundation and frame already built than to build an entire new McModern. It might also be much easier from a permitting perspective.
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Aug 10, 2017 01:02
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Shamelessly stolen from our friends in the crappy construction thread:
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I thought it was a dresser, for a few beautiful innocent moments
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Family Home Laugh Dream Flush
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Exterior design but this guy is doing some incredible large scale art stuff, not really my thing at all but I have to admit this is impressive. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/aug/10/structures-utter-eccentricity-urban-surrealism-alex-chinneck-in-pictures
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PRADA SLUT posted:My building has a giant set of fold-back windows that open up the front of the building (like you can walk out of them onto the patio) and it's really nice to relax there in summer. I would have put something like it instead of a literal garage door, but having that convertible indoor/outdoor space is great. It's a much different feeling than just some open windows. Yeah these are going in in my house, they're a lot more practical than that garage door business. I wonder if y'all have different fire regs to us; those exposed beams wouldn't be allowed unless they were specially coated since it turns out you don't actually have to melt steel beams, you just have to heat them up enough for them to twist under the weight they're holding, which a regular house fire will do just fine. We need 30 minutes of protection on all structural beams in the UK, which is usually done with a layer of fire-rated plasterboard (or the aforementioned coatings if you're fancy and have the money/time).
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:A garage door opening into the living room? We're gonna need another wombat. What the christ.
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SoundMonkey posted:
Architectural dazzle camouflage 
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Aug 10, 2017 11:27
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Being drunk in that bathroom would be a nightmare 
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when i first saw the picture i thought someone had just glued new tile over the old stuff in big sheets and it fell down
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lol I sent that to my builder buddy. The tile work is excellent but terrible
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SoundMonkey posted:when i first saw the picture i thought someone had just glued new tile over the old stuff in big sheets and it fell down
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Freaquency posted:Being drunk in that bathroom would be a nightmare Who needs to be drunk? Just seeing that picture made me experience very mild vertigo. I can't imagine what being there would be like.
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SoundMonkey posted:
Bathroom window not glass block and colors aren't pink white and grey. 7/10 jeans jackets.
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The garage door is terrible for a dozen reasons, the dazzle camouflage tilework is ugly to me but competently done so whatever, but what the gently caress is the reasoning behind toilets at the top of stairs? No door on the toilet is dumb and bad, but have these people never been really sick? That toilet is a suicide machine. I have to assume there is some lazy/cheap architectural/plumbing reason for it.
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It's a throne obviously.
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