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I agree, I wouldn't put anything there. It'll make you claustrophobic even if it doesn't seem like it should. I'd center the table. You can hire an electrician to move the light, or you can swag it yourself pretty cheaply and easily.
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peanut posted:serious answer: some low shelves at perfect sitting height, filled with picture books and photo albums hailthefish posted:If you search for sideboards and/or buffet tables you should be able to find something, though if the outlet being blocked would be a dealbreaker, that makes it a little harder. I think I need to ask better questions and give better feedback since people obviously can't, you know, read my mind. Most of the tables I've seen have minimal storage, similar to this guy here, at best. I'd be okay with a mainly ornamental piece provided it was actually a decent piece of furniture (okay, the last one might be a bit out of price range there), but the height seems to exclude the nice applicable pieces. So I'm wondering if maybe something like a low media cabinet / television stand might actually work here -- something like this, for example -- or if it would be too bulky for the spot, and I should just give up and get a cheap set of shelves for my cats to knock poo poo off of. vonnegutt posted:Why not leave it as is, but move the rug and table to center them in the current floor space? The walking paths would be better and nobody would be crammed up against the sideboard when they sat on that side of the table. Anne Whateley posted:I agree, I wouldn't put anything there. It'll make you claustrophobic even if it doesn't seem like it should. I'd center the table. You can hire an electrician to move the light, or you can swag it yourself pretty cheaply and easily. But maybe you guys are right and I'm just trying to fill some space when I could just let the room breathe, so to speak.
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I'd probably throw a little plant there. Nothing that extends past the boundary of the wall.
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Find something you like the look of at 30" then get to it with the hacksaw.
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FRAR should just gently caress right off
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Phil Moscowitz posted:FRAR should just gently caress right off Actually, FRAR is a real estate listing service in my area. I stole those images from a property listing that's currently on the market. Bonus image: the bathroom from that same property. 
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For when you need to candy crush a monster poo poo
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:
For when you want your kitchen to look like a 90's bank lobby.
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Why did they use two kinds of tiling that don't even match, with each other or with anything else in the room?? WHY. 
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Rabbit Hill posted:Why did they use two kinds of tiling that don't even match, with each other or with anything else in the room?? WHY. My guess is, the vinyl stick-down floor tile (I'm positive that's what it is) was there first, just not behind the stove for whatever reason, Then when the owner decided to sell, they started updating by putting the mosaic tile behind the stove with the plan of doing the whole kitchen backsplash. Somewhere along the way they realized they were never gonna get the vinyl tile off the other walls without taking the drywall with it, said "gently caress it," and listed the place as-is.
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Why are there mirrors stuck on there as well?
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learnincurve posted:Why are there mirrors stuck on there as well? Counter sex
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Actually, FRAR is a real estate listing service in my area. I stole those images from a property listing that's currently on the market.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I should just give up and get a cheap set of shelves for my cats to knock poo poo off of. You have cats? How about going whimsical with a ridiculously fancy cat tree?  Cat tree won't block the outlet, plus your cats can sit on it to look out the window.   That doesn't give you extra storage though. I dunno, maybe put a tall skinny set of shelves or drawers right in the corner there?
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Thanks everyone for the input! I was a little concerned that wood floors plus (primarily) wood furniture plus wood sliding doors would be a bit of an overdose.
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Omerta posted:Thanks everyone for the input! I was a little concerned that wood floors plus (primarily) wood furniture plus wood sliding doors would be a bit of an overdose. Place looks cool, man. Warehouse apartment building?
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wood... is good! I'm personally glad we have a variety of wood tones/types/colors instead of matching everything closely.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Place looks cool, man. Warehouse apartment building? Thanks, dude. It's a condo building built in 04 in a now-rapidly gentrifying area of Atlanta. 8 stories but only 32 units. Something like 27 of the 32 owners are the original buyers, which speaks to the quality of the building. We got in pretty cheap because the previous owners were smokers and made a bunch of unbelievably half-assed "improvements." Cleaning the HVAC ducts and washing everything with diluted vinegar got rid of the smoke residue, and we planned to heavily renovate basically whatever we bought, so we'll gradually fix the remaining issues. Very stoked that my wife had zero interest in a 4/4 in the burbs.
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Found a new must-have feature for my dream home's master bathroom
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Bad Munki posted:This thread is super germane to my interests right now and the title is on point. I'll be posting here a little later on with my current project: great room fireplace full makeover, featuring a 14.5' long, 4" thick, 16" deep live edge walnut slab that I finally found a log for, it's getting cut out of the tree in the next few weeks and then will spend pretty much all summer in the kiln. Rewinding to page 1 (in fact, the second post in the entire thread) to do a little crosspost here because I'm flipping out with excitement, because it's actually really happening: Bad Munki posted:I just wanted to share a picture of a piece of wood with everyone. It's my project, but I'm farming out a lot of the labor here because, well: Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Aug 17, 2017 |
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cheese eats mouse posted:im so over that mosaic tile Fun fact my parents have that tile on the kitchen backsplash AND in their newly remodeled shower. I don't think it's even different colored.
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Guess the price of this 4,000+sf tacky house:         $189,000 
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Youth Decay posted:Guess the price of this 4,000+sf tacky house: This is my dream house when I was 8.
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Well. At least it has the benefit of being a mostly normal house that's mostly just decorated and furnished into a gaudy hell-house. Once all the stupid furniture is removed, a lot of the problems can be fixed with paint. The loving dais in the cavernous master bedroom and the stupid garden tub (and its surround with stairs that take up more space than the tub itself) in the master bathroom would be harder to fix though. Facebook Aunt posted:This is my dream house when I was 8. Same.
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Three ceiling fans and a garden fountain in the living room. I mean... you do you, man.
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I mean, my dream house NOW is a 1br apartment on the 2nd floor, so I could keep a couple patio chairs and a little table on the tiny balcony without worrying about them getting stolen.
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The current trend in ground floor 1-room apartments here is to have an enclosed sunroom with a laundry rack instead of a balcony with a laundry rack. I'm 90% sure it's about panty thieves 
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I'm looking at this ceiling and I'm thinking, "why?". If you've got a steel ridge purlin you're going to prop that on the gable walls and that should be holding the weight of the roof and preventing splay, so surely you don't need any collars at all, let alone four monstrous steel ones. What gives?
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I'm looking at the price and size of it, comparing it to the price and size of my own house, and and wishing death to the boomer buy to let landlords who have ruined our economy.
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Melicious posted:Three sounds good tbh
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Melicious posted:Three
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learnincurve posted:I'm looking at the price and size of it, comparing it to the price and size of my own house, and and wishing death to the boomer buy to let landlords who have ruined our economy. Saaaaaaaame. That would be 4* the price where I am.
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I'm the sad clown watching you spray diarrhea on the back of the toilet bowl in the second bathroom.
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Melicious posted:Three ceiling fans and a garden fountain in the living room. I mean... you do you, man. That almost seems like it would have the capacity to accidentally create weather.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I'm looking at this ceiling and I'm thinking, "why?". If you've got a steel ridge purlin you're going to prop that on the gable walls and that should be holding the weight of the roof and preventing splay, so surely you don't need any collars at all, let alone four monstrous steel ones. What gives? I'm thinking those are wooden beams that they painted red. Seriously, this house looks like an antiques bazaar threw up.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:I'm thinking those are wooden beams that they painted red. I think you might be right, which is even worse. Explains the light fittings mounted directly to them, though.
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learnincurve posted:I'm looking at the price and size of it, comparing it to the price and size of my own house, and and wishing death to the boomer buy to let landlords who have ruined our economy. Size maybe, but if you look at the exterior you'll quickly realize that it's a standard 1970s suburban house. Behind all that gaudy junk there is the outdated kitchen appliances, the popcorn ceiling, the old carpets, and the tiny lot. Plus the buyer has to pay more to restore the place back to some decency. Also, outside of huge metropolitan areas and house prices in the US are indeed still relatively low. That house is in Baton Rouge - a decent size city, but not one young professionals flock to like Austin or Denver. You can find many similar houses (minus the antique store vomit) for less than $200k in many small to mid-size cities. Here in Richmond VA for example you can have a cute-rear end house on a 1/2 acre lot in a nice neighborhood within walking/biking distance from everything for $185k. Anyway, earlier someone was asking what to do with their fireplace? Well, here's what NOT to do:   Yes, these folks put matching tile backsplash in their (working) double-sided fireplace.
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