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Enfys posted:From the Terrible Real Estate Photos: Even my grandmother with her matching toile walls/bedding/curtains/upholstery never put a pattern on the ceiling.
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 When nautical bathroom theming goes too far. Or possibly not far enough.  site caption posted:The wallpaper on which Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin in 1928.  I can't be mad at this. Stunned and unnerved, but not mad.
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HGTV Must Die            Is there like a company that rents out Etsy bullshit for realtors to use? Or do they each have their own stashes of this stuff for staging different houses?
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Christ, they didn't miss a trick, did they? This is like the 2010s equivalent of The Gobbler.
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#1 sign that this bullshit is all staged: nobody on this planet knows how to play rummikub
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cheese eats mouse posted:I am pretty much done with buying furniture. I get to pick this up next weekend. 
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I'm the "Sleep Is For The Weak" art in a bedroom
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Youth Decay posted:HGTV Must Die Man, the more that I look at it, the more I dislike that whole decor, from the (apparently) micro-beveled wood-like flooring right up through all the pseudo-charming bullshit on the walls. I don't watch HGTV, but I agree it must die.
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Youth Decay posted:HGTV Must Die I never realised people actually bought those stupid signs in gift shops, never mind created an entire household around them.
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Youth Decay posted:HGTV Must Die Hobby Lobby for all of your "inspirational" and "quirky" signage needs. Etsy if you have more cash to waste on the same thing only "hand-made".
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I just took a shower and now I want to take another one.  What is going on in the bottom picture?
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Allen Wren posted:#1 sign that this bullshit is all staged: What the gently caress I learned from my nana dammit and it's a good game 
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Youth Decay posted:HGTV Must Die Realtors who do staging like that have their own stashes, and you can get all of this stuff mass-produced from any place that specializes in interior decoration. But I'm actually wondering if it isn't a flip because the floors, built-ins, and kitchen are all pretty on-trend, as well. I'm going to be the odd man out and say that I don't hate it. I think I just find the faux-country style that's popular now less obnoxious than the feature wall, silhouettes, and sheers that would have covered this house a few years ago.
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Speaking seriously for a second, I've just bought a home and it's got a very rural eastern-european look to it (wood floors, wood trim, pastel walls, white ceilings). It looks nice and the warmth drew my wife and I to the property - but we're aware that it does need some modernisation. I'm relatively handy when it comes to actual work, but facing the design work for a whole house is really starting to make me feel overwhelmed. Local Interior designers are looking to charge more than >£100/hr and estimating 5-10 hours work - which seems absolutely insane. I have full CAD drawings, architectural plans for the property, high res photographs, budgets and places to buy from - I just need to gain or hire-out the know how to help pull it all together to a broad set of materials, colours and layouts. Failing that, is this thread a good place to ask for advice or seek out someone to contract remotely (possibly an amateur or student) for a bit less eye-watering fee?
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Southern Heel posted:Speaking seriously for a second, I've just bought a home and it's got a very rural eastern-european look to it (wood floors, wood trim, pastel walls, white ceilings). It looks nice and the warmth drew my wife and I to the property - but we're aware that it does need some modernisation. Sure thing. £70/hr 5 hour minimum. What do you want to know?
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Rabbit Hill posted:What is going on in the bottom picture? Dunno about the bath but looks like they're using sink greywater to fill the toilet cistern which seems fine to me, straddle issues notwithstanding.
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Southern Heel posted:Speaking seriously for a second, I've just bought a home and it's got a very rural eastern-european look to it (wood floors, wood trim, pastel walls, white ceilings). It looks nice and the warmth drew my wife and I to the property - but we're aware that it does need some modernisation. Interior decoration is a luxury product in a private home. Either accept that and pay all the money or do it yourself like the rest of us plebs.
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Or go to a Design Within Reach or similar for a free mock-up, but be prepared to put down $30k to buy it.
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Southern Heel posted:I just need to gain or hire-out the know how to help pull it all together to a broad set of materials, colours and layouts. To gain that know how you can attend a design school for a few years, or browse Pinterest for a few hours. That fee, for a whole house, seems reasonable. I'm a tasteless pleb and would never pay it though.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Gorgeous! How do the doors on the bottom work? It looks like there's only one handle right in the middle. Do they swing out? Yes they swing out. There are removable shelves inside, which I'm going to take out and use to store records since I don't have too many. Turntable and receiver are going on one shelf side and the other side will be the new bar storage. cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Southern Heel posted:Local Interior designers are looking to charge more than >£100/hr and estimating 5-10 hours work - which seems absolutely insane. Can you send them my way? That's a tenth of what local places quoted me for three rooms.
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cakesmith handyman posted:To gain that know how you can attend a design school for a few years, or browse Pinterest for a few hours. That fee, for a whole house, seems reasonable. I'm a tasteless pleb and would never pay it though. there wolf posted:Interior decoration is a luxury product in a private home. Either accept that and pay all the money or do it yourself like the rest of us plebs.
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Just be upfront with them, say you have a pretty strict budget for everything, and see what they can work out with you. Or they'll tell you to get lost and chuck you into a pile of ikea catalogues. The old standby of "get a student to do it cheap" endears you to no one in the creative industry.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Hobby Lobby for all of your "inspirational" and "quirky" signage needs. Etsy if you have more cash to waste on the same thing only "hand-made". A lot of stuff on Etsy is "hand-made" in the sense that they ordered it in bulk direct from the same suppliers that Hobby Lobby uses.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:A lot of stuff on Etsy is "hand-made" in the sense that they ordered it in bulk direct from the same suppliers that Hobby Lobby uses. I know, hence my quotes. Or in other words, gently caress 80%+ of etsy.
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Apologies for the potato quality but this has taken either 15 years or 2 weeks to do depending on which way you look at it. My new sewing room (with a bed in it) ((I know I need to fix that draw)) the little cupboards and the wardrobe also contains sewing stuff. It's in quilting mode right now, I have a big fold out table that will go at right angles for pinning patterns to fabric for dressmaking, 
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Looks like a solidly functional work space, though I would recommend finding a way to hang your rulers.
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there wolf posted:Looks like a solidly functional work space, though I would recommend finding a way to hang your rulers. Beheading is a more traditional choice. Though these days we usually settle for prison.
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First of all, cheese eats mouse posted:I am pretty much done with buying furniture. I get to pick this up next weekend. I also hope stretchy mermaids someday replace words as the trend. Every time I see the words I want to do the opposite. "Be adventurous?" I'm just going to sit here then. You can't tell me what to do wall!  Phil Moscowitz posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/realestate/living-in-and-trying-to-sell-a-frank-lloyd-wright-house.html Hopefully this will get someone who might actually afford the house to take a look. I seems to remember them trying to sell it before for 2M or something, they must be getting desperate. Also, only the official Frank Lloyd Wright groovy people would be included. I'm betting those are the groovy Penfields, so not included unless you make a really good deal.
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This house was "freshly painted" this year so they took new photos for their new listing (and bumped the price up $15k, naturally). But the realtor got lazy and didn't actually do any staging this time. Wouldn't the "before" photos sell the house much better?            Personally I thought the red accents made it cute and classic, don't know why everything has to be monochrome now.
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Most of those look better before, but I think the after pic of the kitchen is better. Mostly because the black and white cabinets are kind of a cute match with the flooring. Red is normally my go-to accent color, but it's not doing anything for me in the original cabinets.Youth Decay posted:Personally I thought the red accents made it cute and classic, don't know why everything has to be monochrome now.
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cheese eats mouse posted:I am pretty much done with buying furniture. I get to pick this up next weekend. This is a great room divider! Any idea who made/designed it? For any UK goon, I hear rumor from several consignment shops that mid-century stuff is not at all popular over there. Is this true?
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Correct, the local shops I go to regularly won't accept it because they can't shift it. Sadly I think most of it gets sent to the tip unless it's a brand like g-plan, then it gets ebayed for thousands (and often doesn't sell, I've seen the same units go up for sale repeatedly for over a year occasionally)
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Also remember the 1950s in Britain were super different. It wasn't American postwar Levittowns, it was rebuilding after heavy losses. Rationing didn't even end until halfway through the '50s. It's not THE GOLDEN ERA in British people's memories the way it is for American politicians.
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The Bloop posted:What the gently caress for real, I've never met anyone who knows how to play it, it's a game you find in a closet and no one knows how it got there if it's good, I'd be willing to give it a shot, but I think the last time I was in the same room as a copy of it, I was like ten
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Southern Heel posted:The loft is finished, but only has a 6' apex and as such isn't suitable as a real room - based on conversation with residents and local planning officials it's going to be impossible to get planning permission to heighten the roofline, and adding regular stairs (even space savers) to get there is going to require the removal of the upstairs toilet. Hello fellow peak national park goon?
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learnincurve posted:Hello fellow peak national park goon? No, just the cunty local parish council - I've spent hours combing the planning office for every single application to raise the roof of a property and they've all been denied outright. Which is strange because literally every single house at my end of the street has extensions, conservatories, massive garages, etc. out the rear end.
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