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Is there a name for Shaker-style furniture in the UK which isn't "Shaker" ? I'm looking for furniture with simple lines and curves - sincere and not over the top:   I used to be into woodworking so some of the less structural items (such as cupboards, etc.) I could look to do myself - but I'm thinking of tables, chairs, beds, etc. especially if they don't cost the earth. If I put 'shaker furniture' into ebay.co.uk I just get back kitchens and bespoke cabinet makers.
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Check out Knoll
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Southern Heel posted:Is there a name for Shaker-style furniture in the UK which isn't "Shaker" ? I'm looking for furniture with simple lines and curves - sincere and not over the top: Not sure if you Brits have thrift stores but here in the US of A I can always find that kind of furniture at my local Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity ReStore for super cheap.
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The furniture places are rare and quite hard to find here since charities realised that eBay exists. If anyone is in the north then check out the ashgate hospice furniture shop In Storforth Lane chesterfield, and that other one (Red cross or heart foundation ?) at crystal peaks Sheffield.
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I've found that British Heart Foundation is a place you can find lots of stuff fairly cheaply - brown furniture is at the pit of it's popularity at the moment so it's not unusual to find huge slabs of 200-year old furniture going for collection-only type money even in the shops. Having said that, I've never had a place to put any of that stuff until now, and I don't like that dark brown look either! I am trying to convince my father to part with one of his seven grandfather clocks for my hallway, though!
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Traditional auctions are also a good place to find this stuff.
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Yeah, there's a few local, incase you want to scratch that French Imperial itch: Or something more Georgian: 
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Southern Heel posted:Yeah, there's a few local, incase you want to scratch that French Imperial itch: This color combination is making me itchy.
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Oct 24, 2017 02:55
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Pretty sure I looted some sweet armour out of this in Skyrim.
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Oct 24, 2017 03:45
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My armor was actually made out of that dresser
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Eikre posted:I like how that floor lamp you got plays off the geometry of the wallpaper but it's pretty busy right up against it. Wonder how it would be behind the couch, backed by a solid color. Set off at an angle or straight above the couch? Also picked up a selig egg chair. Relaxing in it now 
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Phil Moscowitz posted:My armor was actually made out of that dresser The armoire of invincibility?!? 
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You remember that socking great big living room display cabinet with the carving and the lead glass I bought a while back. Turns out it was one of a pair. I know this because I went into the other local charity shop (thrift store) and there was it’s slightly smaller, less wide Welsh dresser sister sat there waiting for me at a heavily discounted price (£45) as they couldn’t shift it, presumably because it’s the half that looks slightly odd and pointless without it’s display cabinet mate. It was quite the what the actual gently caress moment when I saw it.
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learnincurve posted:You remember that socking great big living room display cabinet with the carving and the lead glass I bought a while back. So did you buy it? Any pics?
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Oh yes, I bought it. I couldn’t take pictures in there because it was basically buried under and behind a load of other stuff with the top half poking above a sea of shite. It’s been delivered Thursday, I’m really hoping it fits othe other side of the fireplace but there is a different wall it will fit on if it won’t. If you are picturing a 38 year old woman wearing her son’s brightly coloured bobble hat loudly squealing “that’s my cabinet! Tom! Look! That’s MY cabinet!!” while climbing across bad MCM to get to it, then you would be right. It’s certainly an image my teenage children will now have to live with.
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learnincurve posted:If you are picturing a 38 year old woman wearing her son’s brightly coloured bobble hat loudly squealing “that’s my cabinet! Tom! Look! That’s MY cabinet!!” while climbing across bad MCM to get to it, then you would be right. It’s certainly an image my teenage children will now have to live with. I'm imagining it in a variety of british accents and it is GLORIOUS.
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Catching up on the thread, but on the Raleigh chat from a few pages back: Raleigh is becoming the place to have your second engineering office. Wether you are a SF tech company or a Charlotte banking/finance company or a NY/BOS corridor company making software for investment/stock trading, if you have difficulty finding or retaining talent in your local market, or want to pay less than the going rate in your local market, then just open up a Raleigh Dev office. You can pay 70-80% of what you'd pay in your home location, have access to an untapped labor pool, and your employees will love it because while they are only making 70-80% of their SF colleagues, the cost of living is waaaaaaaaaaay lower. Also the weather is decent (but summers are hot and miserably humid). If you feel like you can't afford to buy a house in Raleigh then your main option is SE Raleigh (which is historically black and thanks to racism has depressed real estate values). I moved here 10 years ago cause I was poor af at the time and it's the only place I could afford. It hasn't gentrified yet (but unfortunately I can see it coming).
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I found a chair! This won't age poorly, right? Its already at the surplus and salvage store.
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I feel like the price tag is missing a decimal point.
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LightRailTycoon posted:I found a chair! It was already obsoleted by the emoji couch.
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Oct 28, 2017 20:22
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You know kids these days and their ATMs!
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Parasol Prophet posted:You know kids these days and their ATMs! The problem isn't that the chair is garish, there just aren't enough pornography enthusiasts willing to advertise it on their furniture.
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LightRailTycoon posted:I found a chair! Decimal point is three places further to the right than it should be.
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Here's an interesting house for interior design/architecture nerds. It was built in 1900 in the mining boomtown-turned-ghost town-turned-hipster suburb of Roslyn, WA and other than what looks like a mid-century kitchen/bathroom "update" (linoleum) and some peeling wallpaper it looks exactly the same as when it was built. Amazing that this house managed to survive this long in near-original condition. There are several other untouched old houses in that town but they are all in various stages of falling apart.         
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It’s one of those houses that look absolutely amazing in photographs but must be an actual nightmare to live in. Then you end up stuck in a catch 22 where restoring will cost a fortune, but you lose a lot of the point of buying it if you modernise.
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When did Boo Radley move out?
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learnincurve posted:It’s one of those houses that look absolutely amazing in photographs but must be an actual nightmare to live in. Then you end up stuck in a catch 22 where restoring will cost a fortune, but you lose a lot of the point of buying it if you modernise. For a house built in 1900 it doesn't need that much restoration. Mostly the flooring upstairs, wallpaper, and the bath and kitchen need refreshed. Of course it could use modern insulation, windows, etc. but the structure is in good shape. Compare to this old boarding house) in the neighborhood built ca. 1912.      One of these buildings was built to last and has been well taken care of, the other was used, abused, and abandoned.
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Just saw an ad for this https://www.wayfair.com/baby-kids/pdp/donco-kids-twin-bunk-bed-donc1250.html Is this a thing people do now? Buy a $700 bed frame so your kid can sleep on a matress on the floor like a poor?
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Shorter ladders are safer. But lol $700 and rip underbed storage space.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Just saw an ad for this https://www.wayfair.com/baby-kids/pdp/donco-kids-twin-bunk-bed-donc1250.html My cousin did this for her two kids, but their bed had curtains around the bottom bunk and the top was left open. Kids loved it for being a fort/lofted bed, and my cousin liked being able to reach the top bunk without climbing a ladder. Anyone have any advice about stripping brass plating? I bought a lamp with some pretty bad corrosion on the base, and since I'm not totally sold on the brass, I'm wondering if it'd be better just to take the plating off and go with whatever iron-alloy is underneath.
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This is ours. It's ugly and cheap material but it splits into two separate beds and the girls like using the windows on the side. I refuse to put on the ladder until the 2 year old is able to control her impulses better, and the 7 year old goes to bed by herself instead of being carried upstairs asleep.
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Gah, if/when we have multiple kids, I'm gonna build so much cool furniture for them. Want a race car bed this week? A spaceship next week? A castle? Hell yeah!That bunk bed would take like a weekend, and maybe a couple hundred bucks in lumber and materials. Not 700!
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Look at you, thinking you'll have energy and time for that bullshit once kids are a factor. The bunkbed may be a weekend worth of man hours, but when you only get to put in 30 minutes at a time, it's a six-month project.
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My dad built one of those awesome outdoor swing and Fort play structures one winter in our hallway. Like, didn't set it up there, but did all the wood work and sawing in the hall. I can't quite remember why he did that, we had a garage. He built that about 27 years ago, moved several times to other families, and it's still being played on.
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Bad Munki posted:Look at you, thinking you'll have energy and time for that bullshit once kids are a factor. Word. I spend those 30 minutes wisely, because you don't get them back and have bought things I know I could make just because the benefit of having it now outweighs the saving from building it myself in some months.
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Lol he did the sawing and building in the hall because of all those project horror stores where people get a bit too invested, and then suddenly realise that they are going to have to demolish walls to get the thing out.
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there wolf posted:My cousin did this for her two kids, but their bed had curtains around the bottom bunk and the top was left open. Kids loved it for being a fort/lofted bed, and my cousin liked being able to reach the top bunk without climbing a ladder. Curtains might help. And maybe it isn't a big deal with modern construction. If you've never slept on a floor mattress you might not realize that one of the reasons bedframes exist is that the floor air is a couple degrees colder. That small difference can be cold enough to make your nose cold. I hate a cold nose. Floor mattress is also inherently dustier. People walking around and playing kick up dust, and more of that will land on a matress on the floor than a mattress a couple feet higher. The dust bunnies that form under a normal bed are still there in the floor bed, they just get into your blankets and pillows instead of being hidden under the bed. It's not a huge deal, but you do need to wash your blankets more often to keep them from getting grungy. 40 years ago having to sleep on a matress on the floor was definitely a sign of poverty, now it's something posh people pay a lot of money for. What a world.
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I've slept on a mattress on the floor for more than a year now and it's not by choice. It can be wonderful with underfloor heating midwinter though.
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Toddlers and small kids loooove a mattress on the floor.
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Mattress directly on the floor is a terrible idea for small children. If you have a small child they will absolutely definitely vomit all over the bed and a 5ft radius around it, and because they can’t lean over and out to hurl that mattress will just end up sitting in a pool of sick until an adult is found and told about it. This will happen on a number of different occasions. What you can see on the really good bunk beds irl is that the mattress is slightly raised with a slatted base underneath it.
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