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deep web creep posted:sup yall who's ready for a loving banger??? This was Liberace's house, right?
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:This was Liberace's house, right? Or Boss Hogg.
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Mar 16, 2018 12:22
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That house is one clock tower away from being Castlevania: Meemaw and Pep-Pep Edition. The Elvis mannequin is definitely a boss.
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Mar 16, 2018 13:11
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Humans did not live in that bouse, it wad aliens very in to interior design and toy car collecting. They also only had late 70's early 80's TV to go on.
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Mar 16, 2018 13:30
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Who knew Liberace's poor first cousins lived in Highland Park?
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Mar 16, 2018 15:28
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The decor is awful, but this line in the description is really loving omnious:quote:Only shown on sunny days. What happens to it on not-sunny days? 
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Mar 16, 2018 17:54
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Facebook Aunt posted:Oh yeah, there's definitely a curse here. All the contents are included with the house. Even the car. You cannot convince me that these are just pictures of anything but a very detailed dollhouse.
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Mar 16, 2018 18:06
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Haifisch posted:The decor is awful, but this line in the description is really loving omnious: The vampire who still lives there eats visitors.
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Mar 16, 2018 18:21
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drgitlin posted:The vampire who still lives there eats visitors. "Buyer is under obligation to determine Meemaw and Pep-Pep's final resting places within house and reinter them at a crossroads before next new moon. Seller disclaims all responsibility and knowledge. Seriously, we don't know either, please stop asking"
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Mar 16, 2018 19:17
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Collateral Damage posted:I am the complete lack of any form of consistency throughout the house. At first I thought it was just two styles, and was a situation where a husband and wife had very different taste and stayed out of each other's areas. But no, it just goes on and on and on. Some of the stuff looks like it could have been done for a teenage son, but none of the 3 bedrooms are suitable for children. It's like someone had movie-style multiple personality disorder, and each personality got to decorate one room.
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Mar 16, 2018 22:34
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So I did it, I'm buying a house, barring some insane revelation of Indian burial grounds under the basement: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/nj/totowa/160-willard-ave/pid_23371414/ (it is adjacent to a cemetery though.) The kitchen isn't in the photos but it has dark wood cabinets, bordering on black, with an attached den with shag carpet, which will have to be updated. The appliances are dated, I'll eventually have to put in modern, efficient replacements. The house is kind of a time capsule because the previous owner was a 95 year old who passed recently, hopefully not in the house. I have a kind of list of things I want to do and improve over the coming years. I want to eventually pour a concrete patio in the backyard for entertaining, that back door goes to the back of the garage so its kind of a pain to access the backyard. The upstairs room (with a boob light  ) is a converted attic, it will most likely be a spare bedroom; I want to replace the linoleum floor with wood or carpet, and some kind of brighter wall paneling. The basement is nice but dated, I kind of want to put in wood paneling & mirrors for a 70's fitness room aesthetic. What do you folks think?
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Mar 17, 2018 04:04
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The first thing I'd do is save those MLS photos to your device and then upload as an imgur album and share that link instead... On a PC you can right click>Save for most pictures or use a browser like Opera with a snapshot option.
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Mar 18, 2018 07:14
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deep web creep posted:sup yall who's ready for a loving banger??? Meet the owner and hear his story. https://www.northjersey.com/story/money/business/michigan/2018/03/16/grixdale-detroit-home-photos/432754002/
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Mar 18, 2018 08:56
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Meet the owner and hear his story. Confirmed bachelor directing his closeted energies into a maelstrom of questionable design choices and exhaustive dusting. You can come out, Ron, you will be loved and accepted if you just let us! YOU DON'T NEED TO KEEP DUSTING. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mar 18, 2018 14:43
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Meet the owner and hear his story. quote:You want to have colors that flow,” he said. “You don’t want a kaleidoscope.” The funny part is I've read comments on other articles saying that house is massively overpriced for the area(median home price around $150k). I'm sure large chunks of that price tag are for the classic cars, but dude's in for a shock when people don't see all the other junk in the house as adding value.
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Mar 18, 2018 15:41
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Facebook Aunt posted:Oh yeah, there's definitely a curse here. All the contents are included with the house. Even the car. quote:
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Mar 21, 2018 17:35
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Suspect Bucket posted:You can come out, Ron, you will be loved and accepted if you just let us! YOU DON'T NEED TO KEEP DUSTING. After reading this article I could really see his relationship with Scott Pipes being of of the sort of two older WASPs who could never allow themselves to be together, but they could work on the house together. First just a few weekends just as an excuse to be near each other, then, well, don't we need to renovate the bathrooms too? And... and dammit, Scott, the garage does need carpeting, doesn't it? We'll get to that right after we grab another lucite swan, and I've got a lead on a seller out in Martha's Vineyard I really hope my dude sells his house and can move to Miami or something.
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Mar 21, 2018 17:53
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 Wall words: The next level.
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Mar 22, 2018 06:13
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please don't make fun of my stairs
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Mar 22, 2018 15:45
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Parachute posted:please don't make fun of my stairs No I prefer what you wrote the first time, I'd get it stencilled on my walls.
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Mar 22, 2018 15:46
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Jaded Burnout posted:No I prefer what you wrote the first time, I'd get it stencilled on my walls. i think im most bothered by how the text isnt even aligned properly
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Mar 22, 2018 15:48
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"We Make Mistakes."
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Mar 22, 2018 15:56
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Parachute posted:i think im most bothered by how the text isnt even aligned properly Mis-aligned text is like the “casual, simple, homestyle” typesetting, that “simple country folk” thing that people romanticize in design. I see those word art wooden plaques with that poo poo. Also some generic ribbon and a thick, curled wire hangar. It’s like how people cut potatoes crooked in “homestyle” soup.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:18
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deep web creep posted:After reading this article I could really see his relationship with Scott Pipes being of of the sort of two older WASPs who could never allow themselves to be together, but they could work on the house together. First just a few weekends just as an excuse to be near each other, then, well, don't we need to renovate the bathrooms too? And... and dammit, Scott, the garage does need carpeting, doesn't it? We'll get to that right after we grab another lucite swan, and I've got a lead on a seller out in Martha's Vineyard I can’t hate this guy for the place. It’s gaudy and utterly bizarre, but at least the guy has a vision. It looks thought out and intentional, like some sort of bizarro art installation. It’s better than the Costco collection suburban McMansion decor or the generic West Elm instagram-emulations haphazardly strewn about.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:26
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PRADA SLUT posted:It’s better than the Costco collection suburban McMansion decor or the generic West Elm instagram-emulations haphazardly strewn about. Hard agree.
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Mar 22, 2018 17:09
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red19fire posted:I'm the M hand towel jammed between two oven doors. I'm also the entire house as the physical manifestation of the last thought Liberace had as he lay dying. That’s an insult to Liberace. Say what you will about the man’s taste, it was fifty times as expensive as what Ronald and Scott could pull off. Also I’m the Monet’s water lilies + Evangelion Unit 01 color scheme in the bathroom.
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Mar 23, 2018 18:01
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im the comatose jerk-off white color scheme
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Mar 23, 2018 20:16
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learnincurve posted:That’s not even remotely true and comes across as quite a bit racist posted next to your av. The UK from above is very very green. It’s a complex issue stemming from the way old medieval cities were layed out (when the population was only a few million) and also how the new industrial revolution cities were thrown up to accommodate a massive influx of people that came in from the countryside as cheaply as possible. I didn’t get any racism from that guy. The South East of the UK very clearly is overcrowded, especially in terms of the infrastructure (roads, rail, services). Even if you wrongly blame immigration for that, you’re not really being racist. That’s a general Uk problem with being London centric, and not investing enough in *anything* that might fix it. UK houses being tiny / badly designed is a separate problem in large part though, other that land being expensive. Partly it’s just that lots of our houses are ooooold, and pre-date things like bathrooms, so they’re small and compromised. Even so, period properties are valued and more popular that newer ones as they are better built: big windows, fireplaces, high ceilings. And we threw up tons of cheap crappy houses in the post war years with no regard for design, size, space. That legacy, and the historic layout of cities makes it difficult to fix things. We also don’t enforce enough design standards for new houses that make them decent to live in: Tiny windows, everywhere, always. No high ceilings. 5 bed detached houses packed together so close you can jump between them. Terraced houses with no sound insulation between neighbours. New-build estates built with no public transport, no shops/entertainment nearby and no road connections to cope with the traffic. We also do nothing to encourage moving away from the insane breeze block->bricks-> tiles building method, which is slow and wasteful and soo slow. And we cling to them. 50 years ago our public housing (council houses) building standards for room size, layout, construction were actually higher than we have ever enforced for private houses (or enforce now). The only thing we’ve improved is insulation. Pablo Bluth posted:Until England has room for proper national parks (free from farming & shooting as well as homes and industry) and room for the reintroduction of wolves and bears, it's overpopulated... Agree. Take a trip to the west of Ireland to see what it’d be like if there weren’t 10x too many people everywhere all the time (South East England anyway).
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Mar 24, 2018 03:10
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I had to look up "breeze block." They just sound like they'd be nicer to carry around than cinder blocks. The power of marketing! There's a part of me that -- despite the character of this house and the fact that I would prefer not to move again, ever -- would like to build new with much more energy-efficient method. I can't imagine how much less leaky the place would be if instead of fieldstone construction it were, say, insulated concrete form construction. But unless we hit the lottery, our money's going toward retirement under the assumption that at some point Republicans are going to succeed in gutting Social Security and such.
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Mar 24, 2018 13:55
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wooger posted:We also don’t enforce enough design standards for new houses that make them decent to live in: *built on a flood plain, designed to flood in conditions damper than 'light sprinkle', because it's loving farmland *expat buy-to-let landlord bought off-plan, never visited the place, sole means of contact is a mobile number I mean I've lived in a few shitholes, but Hell is where someone drew a squiggly circular line and squished as many boxes as they could around it. And the boxes fall apart after twenty years.
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Mar 24, 2018 16:09
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:*expat buy-to-let landlord bought off-plan, never visited the place, sole means of contact is a mobile number *you give him a call because the hot water tank exploded, get no response, find out two days later he’s in Lithuania for the rest of the summer
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Mar 24, 2018 16:25
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Interior of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Connecticut  More pictures here: https://www.6sqft.com/own-frank-lloyd-wrights-horseshoe-shaped-tirranna-home-in-new-canaan-ct-for-8m/ Can't really find if it was sold or not.
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Mar 24, 2018 19:22
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I like the design, but I'm not sold on the salmon floor.
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Mar 24, 2018 19:49
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Electric Bugaloo posted:*you give him a call because the hot water tank exploded, get no response, find out two days later he’s in Lithuania for the rest of the summer Y'all are lucky with your "ties to the UK" landlord, one of my landlords in London was six guys in Singapore who'd never set foot in the country.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Interior of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Connecticut Is that floor dyed, polished concrete, or some massive tiles? I feel like Frank Lloyd Wright houses would be acceptable if re-built with modern high-end triple glazing & insulation, but a pain to live in as is. They do look beautiful though.
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Mar 24, 2018 22:44
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wooger posted:Is that floor dyed, polished concrete, or some massive tiles? I think it might actually be a kind of red brick or concrete. A lot of the Usonian houses have very similar flooring with underfloor radiant heat and I almost wonder if it has something to do with the heating technology at the time. Also if you haven’t heard the Usonian houses episodes of 99% Invisible, don’t because they will make you want to buy a Usonian house and then bitter that they’re all >$1 million and kind of impractical for modern life. There are a lot of really great Usonian-inspired or ‘Post-Usonian’ ranches and such out there, to say nothing of how modern construction has adopted a lot of those design hallmarks, but hearing their history broken down really gives you an appreciation for how much of a loving visionary FLW actually was and why people will get on waitlists and move across the country to live in the genuine article. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Mar 24, 2018 23:13
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wooger posted:Is that floor dyed, polished concrete, or some massive tiles? I believe that the floors are polished concrete, colored with a shake-on pigment. I had thought that Wright favored a "Cherokee Red", so I'm wondering about the coloring in the pictures, since they all do look dark pink.
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Mar 25, 2018 03:14
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Interior of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Connecticut Okay, but how do you access the large pottery storage shelf? Do you have to climb the bookcase?  Obviously you DO have to get up there. The large pottery isn't going to dust itself.
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Mar 25, 2018 03:21
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What, you don't have pottery-dusting servants to sort that out for you?
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