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Facebook Aunt posted:Curtains might help. And maybe it isn't a big deal with modern construction. Mattress on the floor was how you beat the heat during summer for my grandparents. Then air-conditioning came along and they didn't got really confused by even sleeping platforms because who wants to sleep on the floor when you have can just turn the temp down a little and be comfortable?
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learnincurve posted:If you have a small child they will absolutely definitely vomit all over the bed and a 5ft radius around it Pretty sure giving them the high ground in this scenario isn't gonna make things any better. Anyhow, in my experience, small kids (like 3 and under) just puke wherever they god drat please. 
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I once woke up and threw up so naturally went to look for my mummy and daddy. Didn’t know what time it was but the living room light was on so I headed off down the hallway, throwing up every few feet, only to find my parents were not in there. So I headed back down the hallway now not only throwing up but treading all the previous piles of sick into the carpet as I went like some sort of enormous projectile vomiting snail. This is the point my dad came out of his room to find out what the noise was.
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Nov 1, 2017 22:42
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Do kids vomit a lot? I think I was sick enough to throw up maybe once in my entire childhood and a couple times from drinking in my teens. Throwing up sucks, but I don't plan my interior design around it.
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Nov 1, 2017 22:47
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It depends a lot on the school they go to and thier sick kid policy. But the UK currently has a horrible unbeatable old people culling flu epidemic, and has had so for at least 10 years so the flu is really common in winter.
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Baronjutter posted:Do kids vomit a lot? I think I was sick enough to throw up maybe once in my entire childhood and a couple times from drinking in my teens. Throwing up sucks, but I don't plan my interior design around it. Would you remember the times you threw up when you were 2 or 3 or 4 years old? Sure, if a 10 year old is vomiting all the time something is fucky, but preschoolers are weird. Some get stomach explosions, some get tonsillitis 10 times in 5 years, some get screaming earaches after every time their their ear touches water. You never know what you're going to get. I wouldn't plan my entire house around it, but if you have a baby or preschooler when decorating their bedroom it's probably best to assume that the tiny child may make horrible messes with no warning. Sometimes toddlers use the contents of their diaper as finger paints. Kids are gross.
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Nov 1, 2017 22:58
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Futons go directly on the floor but you're supposed to fold them up during the daytime, and air them outside on sunny days. I recently saw a celebrity interview talking about his poor younger days. He left his futon on the floor, unmoving for 10 years. Not only were futon and the tatami underneath it black with mold, but the moisture damage went so deep the floor beams were rotten.
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Nov 2, 2017 00:16
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Hang on a second, if you are buying bunk beds for children you are already furnishing your house around them lol. A 2 year old can cover about 2ft by 4ft of wall in black crayon in the time it takes you to run to the toilet and back. It won’t matter if there are any crayons in the room or not, they will have planned this well in advance and hidden it about their person.
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learnincurve posted:I once woke up and threw up so naturally went to look for my mummy and daddy. Didn’t know what time it was but the living room light was on so I headed off down the hallway, throwing up every few feet, only to find my parents were not in there. So I headed back down the hallway now not only throwing up but treading all the previous piles of sick into the carpet as I went like some sort of enormous projectile vomiting snail. This is the point my dad came out of his room to find out what the noise was. My older brother loves to remind me of the time I woke up feeling sick, walked down the hall, and instead of turning right into the bathroom turned left into his room to puke all over the floor.
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Nov 2, 2017 01:53
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My sister managed to vomit on my head TWICE as a child.
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Been a while since I've posted House Staging That Annoys Me Bare lightbulb chandelier: very funny. To go with your poverty-chic chairs. Can someone save that poor plant?  How not to stage an "office nook". The hell do you expect me to actually do with that tiny desk? Certainly not work. And boy, "put a bird on it" was accurate about Portland.  Oh wait, you wanted upper cabinet space in your kitchen? Too bad, we made it a wall of shadowboxes for cheap white porcelain that nobody uses. At least china cabinets tell people you're rich, this just says "I don't have cups".  And you spend all that money on a kitchen remodel but keep the ugly linoleum floors? What's trendier than fake dead deer heads on the wall? Fake puppy heads on the wall, apparently. MORE LINOLEUM. 
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Youth Decay posted:Oh wait, you wanted upper cabinet space in your kitchen? Too bad, we made it a wall of shadowboxes for cheap white porcelain that nobody uses. At least china cabinets tell people you're rich, this just says "I don't have cups". What do you mean staged? I totally believe that a real family lives here and eats meals prepared in this kitchen every day.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:12
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It's been a while since I've been a child, but I probably definitely would be severely distressed to have POOR LIL PUPPER DOGGOS HEADS on my loving bedroom wall. What the christ. Rich people are sociopaths.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:17
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Facebook Aunt posted:What do you mean staged? I totally believe that a real family lives here and eats meals prepared in this kitchen every day. My biggest kitchen pet peeve other than no cabinet space is having the stove all alone on a wall with zero counter space nearby. Like if I'm making a stir fry or something and I have to throw stuff in the pan/pot real quick I need it right there with me, not on the other side of the room. But something even more important is conspicuously absent in this newly renovated kitchen in a $715,000 house...  Range hoods are so passé.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:42
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Youth Decay posted:
Not really sure what you think they did to this kitchen but in my estimation they just took the doors off the uppers, painted everything and put new pulls on. Looks pretty good IMO for probably like $100 in paint and $100 in pulls aside from whatever the appliances and countertop cost. That house is a little trend heavy but it looks pretty nice overall.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:57
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Youth Decay posted:My biggest kitchen pet peeve other than no cabinet space is having the stove all alone on a wall with zero counter space nearby. Like if I'm making a stir fry or something and I have to throw stuff in the pan/pot real quick I need it right there with me, not on the other side of the room. As someone who curses his kitchen every day for not having a decent hood, gently caress everything about this.
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Nov 2, 2017 03:28
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Yeah just put the oven over there against that wall who gives a poo poo
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"And put the microwave next to it on the bottom of this IKEA rack, whatever"
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stupid puma posted:Not really sure what you think they did to this kitchen but in my estimation they just took the doors off the uppers, painted everything and put new pulls on. Looks pretty good IMO for probably like $100 in paint and $100 in pulls aside from whatever the appliances and countertop cost. My point is they made it look ~on trend~ from the ground up, put in new appliances/fixtures/countertops/subway tile backsplash but didn't bother swapping the ugly orange linoleum like nobody would notice. Looks like the rest of the first floor is new laminate so idk why they couldn't have put in tile or cork there. Or why there is new carpet in the master bedroom but the kid gets stuck with the same orange linoleum. Granted it's Portland so they probably could've done nothing to the kitchen and sold the place for above asking but still bugs me.
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Nov 2, 2017 03:54
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It actually looks like a cork floor, which is what's listed in the "Property Features" section.
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Bad Munki posted:"And put the microwave next to it on the bottom of this IKEA rack, whatever" I love bending over nearly to floor level to retrieve my hot pockets from the microwave. This is totally normal.
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Nov 2, 2017 04:51
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That little lamp is going to cause some awful shadows when you're facing the lonely stove and everything else along a wall. Seriously wtc can you do with the stove like that. At least the sink counter zone would be functional in an office.
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value-brand cereal posted:It's been a while since I've been a child, but I probably definitely would be severely distressed to have POOR LIL PUPPER DOGGOS HEADS on my loving bedroom wall. What the christ. Rich people are sociopaths. Rich? Hardly. Every last thing in that room came from Target. Those heads are $20 each. The teepee is $80. Lamps run about $40. Can't remember the prices on the rug or the bedspread, but I've seen them in the store. Yes, this post makes me sound pathetic. There's a Target half a mile from my house, and we just end up there a lot, okay?
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Nov 2, 2017 05:53
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DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY encouragement as you struggle with the no-counter-space stove, I guess
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The real reason you don’t put a mattress on the floor is because then Roomba can’t clean under the bed.
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PRADA SLUT posted:The real reason you don’t put a mattress on the floor is because then Roomba can’t clean under the bed. Clean what? Ninja dust? Youth Decay posted:But something even more important is conspicuously absent in this newly renovated kitchen in a $715,000 house... I thought you were going to say "doors".
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Nov 2, 2017 08:17
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My other unit turned up  I am fully aware that a lot of people are going to absolutely hate these. 
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Youth Decay posted:Bare lightbulb chandelier: very funny. To go with your poverty-chic chairs. Can someone save that poor plant?     None of these are dorm rooms, they're all €300k-500k downtown apartments.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:18
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learnincurve posted:My other unit turned up Regardless of whether or not I'd buy it I hate to see waste, so you bringing these two back together and caring for them is great to see.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:59
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I love them. Also some of you may remember me posting about my Never Ending renovation escapades at that 1960s bungalow I bought in the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia. Well, we put the first cost of floor polish on yesterday and my word   It looks even better in person. Jarrah is a fantastic timber, it's hard as all hell but has a beautiful grain and lots of character.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Regardless of whether or not I'd buy it I hate to see waste, so you bringing these two back together and caring for them is great to see. I have a really boring theory as to what they are and in my history nerd way this is why I was desperate to save the first one, the second was just “holy poo poo who splits up sets and gives them to different charities” Here’s what I think has happened; In the UK there are cheap pine furniture shops, not many of them left now because of ikea. In the 1990s you would get adverts saying “prices start from £50!” with pictures of really great units or tables on them and these would be the ones in the shop front. On entering the store you would find that those display units were hand or specially made and cost thousands, and everything else inside was pure poo poo. I think these are two of the big display pieces. One of the main reasons for this theory is the lead in the glass. They are absolutely the wrong style and colour for department and upmarket stores in the 1990s, we can date it as 1990s because of the hinges, light fittings and screws. Fake lead in glass is what you would see in pine furniture world land. The lead in these units is real. No they are not worth a lot of money right now, the value for me is that right now they are so rare, in 20 years time they will be the only ones left. 100 years time they are the kind of thing that antiques roadshow experts get really enthusiastic and exited about, before telling the owner they are worth nothing but isn’t it amazing that they own a unique and functional set of furniture.
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 Passive aggressive goals.
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learnincurve posted:
Does she a) hate the cabinets b) hate you c) really not care what furniture her son bought
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Also I'm thinking now the same thing I thought when you posted the pic and I remembered you previously saying this was the "smaller half". It's also huge! If anything it looks bigger.
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Nov 2, 2017 13:05
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learnincurve posted:My other unit turned up You going to varnish them?
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My mother will absolutely hate them with a burning passion. Put it this way: My mother would like to speak to your manager please. I honestly didn’t know just how big it was until it got here. There must have been some sort of step down level it was on behind all that MCM. Imagine my surprise... I’m not going to varnish, wax maybe, the wood itself has been really well taken care of so it’s not a restoration job.
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I am not seeing them as a matching set. They have similarities but also differences. The lower cabinet doors are of completely different designs and the wood looks like different species judging by the grain. However the glass doors and trim over the openings are clearly the same design. I don't know, I get the feeling they are of the same carpenter but not built as a set. Do you see a carpenters mark on the back or bottom, there might be a date next to it.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Rich? Hardly. Every last thing in that room came from Target. Those heads are $20 each. The teepee is $80. Lamps run about $40. Can't remember the prices on the rug or the bedspread, but I've seen them in the store. Not pathetic, just familiar with weird decorations. Eh, my only experience with quirky animals heads are those 100+ usd unicorn heads from etsy. My bad, but at least no one is unironically blowing 300 bux on puppy heads.
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JEEVES420 posted:I am not seeing them as a matching set. They have similarities but also differences. The lower cabinet doors are of completely different designs and the wood looks like different species judging by the grain. However the glass doors and trim over the openings are clearly the same design. There are a few other differences, the shelves in one cabinet are glass, the other wood. One has lighting, the other does not. The dresser has crisper edges on the counter top, magnetic catches and weird grooves like it’s meant for displaying plates, but nothing has ever been hung down from it. I paid a grand total of £90 combined for them, “you can’t go wrong for £90” quoth the Mr LC.
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Youth Decay posted:What's trendier than fake dead deer heads on the wall? Fake puppy heads on the wall, apparently. MORE LINOLEUM. Kid killed Cerberus. Let him have his spoils.
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