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Facebook Aunt posted:BTW, does anyone else kinda like that granny gothic velvet wallpaper? No? Just me? I haven't seen it inside a house decorated in the last 40 years. Maybe that means it is due for a comeback and it will be the next big thing. Fingers crossed. My grandma still has hers plus the green shag.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Worse is that it has a strong chance of backfiring anyway. Whatever is on trend right now will be dated within 10 years. So if you hate, I dunno lets say interior shiplap, but you install shiplap because it's on TV then in 10 years you go to sell your house and everyone is sneering at your fake rear end shiplap wall. If you had actually gone with your preferred wall covering (granny gothic velvet wallpaper) they would still be sneering of course, but you'd have gotten 10 years of something you liked. If you’re not happy going with your own esoteric desires, the best rule of thumb is to go with something that’s either original to the house or in keeping with the style. Unless the house was originally a pile of poo poo, people will at minimum nod understandingly even if it’s not their jam. Facebook Aunt posted:BTW, does anyone else kinda like that granny gothic velvet wallpaper? No? Just me? I haven't seen it inside a house decorated in the last 40 years. Maybe that means it is due for a comeback and it will be the next big thing. Fingers crossed. Wasn’t that super on trend like a decade ago? Especially “ironic” placement or color use? Like, you’d have three gray or white walls and then an accent wall of original-style gothic print, or a contemporary “reimagining” in dark violet or neon green or electric blue? I remember it pairing really well with antique furniture pieces spray painted a flat bright color, mounted deer heads (painted or unpainted), and music by the Killers.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Nice! Shiny easier to clean and won't absorb smells from the room. I'm not sure what smells it would be absorbing in the bedroom but in any case everything in that photo has been torn out and replaced, including the wall, floor, and ceiling.
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My recent wallpaper catalog included damask prints in both griege and shiny varieties. I probably should have at least used some shiny white damask on a ceiling.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Part of my problem is I don't know anyone who obsessively upgrades their house in terms of future selling, though I did once wander into a Houzz thread where someone was agonizing over a backsplash choice between the one they personally enjoyed and the one they thought would add value for when they eventually moved, and everyone in the thread was encouraging the latter.
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Facebook Aunt posted:BTW, does anyone else kinda like that granny gothic velvet wallpaper? No? Just me? I haven't seen it inside a house decorated in the last 40 years. Maybe that means it is due for a comeback and it will be the next big thing. Fingers crossed. 
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Renovating the kid’s room I see.
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Apr 11, 2018 21:33
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It’s a real pretty shade of blue though.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:If you’re not happy going with your own esoteric desires, the best rule of thumb is to go with something that’s either original to the house or in keeping with the style. Unless the house was originally a pile of poo poo, people will at minimum nod understandingly even if it’s not their jam. Oh no, I missed it! Curse my lack of attention to trends. Oh well, it will come back in another 40 years. Jaded Burnout posted:I'm not sure what smells it would be absorbing in the bedroom but in any case everything in that photo has been torn out and replaced, including the wall, floor, and ceiling. Very old flocked wallpaper (the only kind I've seen) often has a musty smell. People also used to smoke a lot, like a crazy amount of continuous smoking in every room, so a stale smoke smell is common in rooms with old flocked wallpaper or old carpets.
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Yeah, damask/faux-flocked patterns were pretty trendy in the mid 2000s. They’re still big in the wallpaper world, but more in an “inspired by” sense than the traditional patterns. I put “Beastly Guardians” by Flat Vernacular in my powder room last year: From afar it looks like your typical ornate doodles but up close there are lions, bears, geese, and pigeons. Flat Vernacular and Flavor Paper both have lots of beautiful, unexpected wallpaper designs. Almost makes me want to do another room. Melicious fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:Renovating the kid’s room I see. Actually, that might be pretty good at keeping a kid OUT of a room. Put that up in like, an office, tell the kid the walls know if they've been messing with your work computer. That'll keep them out for YEARS.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Very old flocked wallpaper (the only kind I've seen) often has a musty smell. Gotcha.
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Melicious posted:Yeah, damask/faux-flocked patterns were pretty trendy in the mid 2000s. They’re still big in the wallpaper world, but more in an “inspired by” sense than the traditional patterns. I put “Beastly Guardians” by Flat Vernacular in my powder room last year: That’s awesome. My partner and I would love to do that once we own. For now we’ll have to settle with a cross-stitch of various infectious bacteria  When Midnight Pastoral by Alexander Henry was available, I thought about getting couch cushions wrapped in it but never got around to it. I love cheeky decor touches like that, for all that they often get derided as “twee.”
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Electric Bugaloo posted:That’s awesome. My partner and I would love to do that once we own. For now we’ll have to settle with a cross-stitch of various infectious bacteria Looks like it's still around in the secondary markets of ebay, etsy, and old stock from online shops. Can't find upholstery weight, though so maybe not for couch cushions.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:That’s awesome. My partner and I would love to do that once we own. For now we’ll have to settle with a cross-stitch of various infectious bacteria I love Alexander Henry prints! And yeah, I like a good dose of whimsy in my home.
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What would you guys do with this room layout? There's a house I'm tempted to buy, but I just can't figure out what to do with the rooms in the very middle of the first floor. Notes: - The wall along the top has a lot of large, low windows, so nothing but the lowest furniture could go against it. - The red box is the fireplace, and the non-kitchen wall that surrounds it is brick. - My scribbles have a loose relationship with scale. - Dining? room is on the small side for a kitchen table, but doable. The other option I can see is to make it a seating area around the fireplace, but I'm not inclined towards that. - Dining?? used to be the dining area before the kitchen was moved in a prior renovation. This is the area that most confuses me, because it's got the sliding doors to the deck, large windows, and is open to both the hall and the staircase. The current owners plunked a TV and sofa down in here, but it's definitely weird looking. It's about the same size as the prior room. - Dining??? is an area that's coded as a dining room with its light fixture, but is part of a larger living room and would be no problem to just make it all living room. - The kitchen, dining?, dining??, and the hallway are all using the same tile, but I figure I'll be changing that eventually. - Reading nook is out as a suggestion, as there's already a room elsewhere that's begging for that use. I really like just about everything else about the house, but these rooms, I just can't figure them out. And I know it would bother me forever to leave any of them purposeless.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I like your "all dining" solution, stick with that. Ha, I'd probably go with two of them if one of them could be used as a formal dining room, even if I personally find formal and informal dining silly. But everything is just too open, and the two near the kitchen don't have the wall space to put up a china cabinet/buffet/sideboard/anything.
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Could you turn one of the rooms into an exercise room, maybe? Depending on how much storage you have in the kitchen, it might be helpful to have some of that room adjacent to it dedicated to extra storage, like a pantry or a chest freezer. On a different note, I checked out an open house recently. Former rental, and the landlord clearly had not cared about upkeep. Old, dirty appliances, dirty windows (with the curtains drawn everywhere to make it harder to tell), uneven floors, cracks in the trim. Small, cramped, 3-bed 1-bath place. Fairly large lot for the area though, and there was a lovely view of the ocean from the back yard. If I were to have bought the place, I would've built a new house in the back yard and either torn down the old one or used it as a shed. ...but I wasn't gonna buy it, because they wanted loving $950k for the thing. San Francisco Bay Area prices 
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My sister looked at a place that was so tiny that it didn't have space for a full-size fridge or even a stove and the laundry would have to be a double-stacked type in the entrance hallway. 2 bed, 1 bath, $74k out here in mostly-goddamn-nowhere. Major industry around here is carpet mills, and she drives an hour each way to work at an Amazon fulfillment center. Certainly not at all possible for a single mom with two kids to live in without proper cooking abilities.
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I would eat at a cozy 4-person table pushed against the windows in dining?, fill dining?? with toys and picture books (to step on) or maybe as a laundry/backpack space and use dining??? as a wide living room with space for a party food table. That mspaint map is so terrible lol
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Make Dining?? a cat play room. Fill it with cat furniture and cat shelves and stuff.  Of course this will be weird if you don't have any cats. In that case get a couple cats.
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It's also an ideal place for a year-round Christmas Tree/Valentine Bush/Freedom Pine/Haunted Conifer (or pets or yoga or laundry or mah jong).
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peanut posted:It's also an ideal place for a year-round Christmas Tree/Valentine Bush/Freedom Pine/Haunted Conifer (or pets or yoga or laundry or mah jong). That would be real good, yeah. If you do Christmas Tree it is great to have a place to put one that doesn't require moving around your furniture. That would be real nice in a high traffic central location at the foot of the stairs.
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PurpleLizardWizard posted:What would you guys do with this room layout? There's a house I'm tempted to buy, but I just can't figure out what to do with the rooms in the very middle of the first floor. I would love a dining room with a fireplace. Then I might actually use the fireplace instead of cursing it for causing an awkward room layout (our house was built before TVs were a big thing). Dining? As your dining room and extra kitcheny storage if needed. Dining?? Throw in a chair and a shelf coat rack or whatever, make it a transitional space to the outside and upstairs. Add some seasonal decor of the room looks empty. Dining??? Use as the living room.
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peanut posted:It's also an ideal place for a year-round Christmas Tree/Valentine Bush/Freedom Pine/Haunted Conifer (or pets or yoga or laundry or mah jong).  Get some white witch of Narnia aesthetic up in here. A MIRACLE posted:Nothing spruces up a home like the smell of animal urine I was once inside a house of a cat hoarder who had over a hundred cats (and one dog) There was a room that was probably 10x13, with litterboxes lining the 4 walls like urinals in a stadium bathroom. The whole house had a sticky glaze of cat piss on the carpet and up the walls to about the 4 foot mark. The smell was unmanageable and I threw up nearly immediately after leaving (and feel like retching every time I retell this story).
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A MIRACLE posted:Nothing spruces up a home like the smell of animal urine You're supposed to have a litterbox.
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Curious about this thread’s take on this imgur post, specifically the wood wainscoting with white trim and painted upper. It’s not something I would have considered, but I don’t find it awful, in fact I kinda like it. Whereas looking at pictures of fully-wood-paneled walls with white trim is awful to me, like really bad, so I’m trying to analyze it a little more closely, as I have a similar space I’m working on. Example:  The rest of the album: https://imgur.com/gallery/rZIANFJ
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I've always found that contrast is the most important element for making something look good to me. Either a full wall of wood or a full wall of paint is going to look either busy or boring, usually people go with boring and then add contrast via hanging pictures or adding furniture and lighting. Taken on it's own, a wall with a busy lower, clean separation, and calm upper is going to provide that contrast as a package. Personally I would've had a bit less wood and a more compatible colour of paint, but season to taste, I guess. Things like the natural wood are also not so great in large volume because it looks unfinished due to the chaos of the grain. It's very possible to make good use of an unfinished surface but it has to look deliberate, hence contrasting it hard with something very clean. A good example of this for me is the offices of Double Fine where they set bare brick against smooth bold-coloured paint. Bad example here but the best I could find:  The highly finished nature of the painted wall shows that the unfinished wall is deliberate and not just laziness, and to me that makes all the difference. So, painted top, wooden bottom, neat dado. Job done.
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Bad Munki posted:Curious about this thread’s take on this imgur post, specifically the wood wainscoting with white trim and painted upper. It’s not something I would have considered, but I don’t find it awful, in fact I kinda like it. Whereas looking at pictures of fully-wood-paneled walls with white trim is awful to me, like really bad, so I’m trying to analyze it a little more closely, as I have a similar space I’m working on. I have been to this BBQ restaurant...
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Bad Munki posted:Curious about this thread’s take on this imgur post, specifically the wood wainscoting with white trim and painted upper. It’s not something I would have considered, but I don’t find it awful, in fact I kinda like it. Whereas looking at pictures of fully-wood-paneled walls with white trim is awful to me, like really bad, so I’m trying to analyze it a little more closely, as I have a similar space I’m working on. This room reminds me of the time my friend took me to what I thought was a pizza party but turned out to be a Christian recruitment seminar.
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I... kinda like it. A lot. It looks like a comfortable basement, nothing stylish or fancy, but you don't spend much time in there anyway so it doesn't really matter. I might look into doing something similar with my half-finished basement.
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I wouldn't ever do is just as they have, but as a seed, possibly. Like, pine is too busy, something a bit more subdued would be nice. Possibly some sort of hickory. But you can't go dark, or the white trim is OMG. And I don't know about the green itself, but at least they went with a mild one. The green + pine is a bit too US Forest Service, although the white trim reduces that impression. Anyhow, it's interesting, I was just confounded by not being entirely repulsed by wood paneling + white trim. Magic Hate Ball posted:This room reminds me of the time my friend took me to what I thought was a pizza party but turned out to be a Christian recruitment seminar.
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Pine is fine I think if you use a semi transparent finish with white in it to reduce that "too busy" look that pine gets. I think that looks quite nice in general. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Apr 22, 2018 |
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Interesting. Do you have an example?
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Bad Munki posted:Curious about this thread’s take on this imgur post, specifically the wood wainscoting with white trim and painted upper. It’s not something I would have considered, but I don’t find it awful, in fact I kinda like it. Whereas looking at pictures of fully-wood-paneled walls with white trim is awful to me, like really bad, so I’m trying to analyze it a little more closely, as I have a similar space I’m working on. I think my biggest problem really is that instead of mounting the pine board so it was flush with the existing doorframe, he trimmed it out with its own individual frame. To me it just makes the pine board look like an afterthought, or maybe "I had this idea but I didn't know how to do it correctly." Also: there wolf posted:I have been to this BBQ restaurant... 
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