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It will be faster to remove all the doors and hardware and spray than to paint the cabinet doors with acrylic while they're still hung. Your floor and counter are warm colors so I would use warm whites.
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I’m a bicycle-riding, downtown-living, sneakers-wearing, street-food eating goon gently caress cars gently caress low-density housing gently caress ‘fine dining’ e: also gently caress word art and putting string lights inside of mason jars
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Do you think it would be relevant to organise a thread amnesty where everyone said, anonymously, what they would be happy to spend on say a car, a pair of shoes, a meal? So I can understand how rich everyone is when I think about someone repainting their kitchen? Because I think I'm operating on a vastly different level to everyone else? Professional painters are expensive, yes. I guess I assumed that was in the budget because a reno was mentioned. However, I have repainted cabinets myself. Turned out pretty good despite being super time consuming. Cost was $10 for a jug of CitriStrip and about $30 for paint at Home Depot. This was a single bathroom vanity with 2 doors and 3 drawers, and it took the better part of a weekend to get it stripped, sanded, and 2 coats of paint on it. Most of that time was the stripping - I didn't want to sand too much in order to preserve the molding, but I knew I needed every bit of the original finish removed so the paint would take evenly. So, a full kitchen would probably take 5x - 10x that, depending on how large the kitchen is. My sister got her cabinets resprayed for, IIRC, about $500 for the labor. For me that amount "costs" less to me than the time it takes to do it myself - mostly because I can't "afford" to have my kitchen unavailable for that length of time it would take me to do it while also working a full time job. At the same time I will gladly paint most things myself, because with a little prep and a lot of patience, it's actually not hard to do a good job. A lot of home ownership is learning what is worth it to learn to DIY and what isn't.
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edit. in response to prava slut... i guess ok but like you've got a house and some shoes and eat poo poo. But if your answer is just thousands of dollars for whatever I happen to deem important then that will be sufficient. I guess what I mean is I can't afford that and its silly for me to suggest things in a thread that is way out of my league so soz, OK cool I'll stick to reading.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I guess what I mean is I can't afford that and its silly for me to suggest things in a thread that is way out of my league so soz, OK cool I'll stick to reading. My bad, I thought you were the original poster who posted the kitchen. Home ownership is expensive, especially if you're trying to reno everything to your taste. I have a list of things I would like to do to my home but can't afford to do them all right now. Painting is one of those that's either time-expensive or money-expensive. Usually I have more time than money.
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There's a ton of stuff about my house that I would absolutely change if I had either unlimited time or unlimited money. I have limited both, so I just live with the imperfections as I gradually pick away at whatever's irritating me the most. By the way, a word of warning on paint: you get what you pay for. Compared to the time investment involved in painting something, it is absolutely worth paying for not-poo poo-tier paint that won't be peeling inside of a year. And speaking of peeling, 90% of a painting job is in the prep work. If the paint doesn't adhere well to the underlying surface then you're gonna have a bad time.
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The first weekend we owned our house we decided to tape off the kitchen before we moved everything in, take all the doors off the cabinets/drawers (about 27-30), sand them and the framing, and apply a fresh coat of white paint. It wasn't the worst thing, got it done within the weekend or 4 days I believe, but it was really loving tiring.
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vonnegutt posted:Professional painters are expensive, yes. I guess I assumed that was in the budget because a reno was mentioned. You could also get new doors fairly affordably and of good quality at IKEA. For all that your cabinets are dark, they would actually pair well with a light or white door that provides a tasteful contrast. It’s cheap and can be done in a day if you’re quick. Also means you can put the old doors on Craigslist and try to recoup some cash.
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Nov 1, 2018 03:05
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Just photoshop your picture to figure out the color
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I can't make it white but here ya go (they all look really good lol)
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Needs thick pink stripes on the top 1/3rd of the wall
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PRADA SLUT posted:I’m a bicycle-riding, downtown-living, sneakers-wearing, street-food eating goon You can have your tiny white empty box in the city, someone's got to live there. I'll take a couple acres or so in the 95% of the country that isn't major urban center density. With you on the word art though.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Needs thick pink stripes on the top 1/3rd of the wall knife collage over the sink
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My Lovely Horse posted:
Hang on, need to get it Zoopla-ready 
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My Lovely Horse posted:
I hear Namekian cuisine is very delicious. (Honestly I do kind of like this, but not sure I would long term.)
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peanut posted:I can't make it white but here ya go (they all look really good lol) I like them all to glance at but I'm not sure about living with. Maybe the blue. I had red gloss cabinets in my first house, they faded to orange in the sun.
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Nov 1, 2018 10:35
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peanut posted:Huge, razor-sharp cleaver over the sink FTFY
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pluckyginger posted:We are starting by painting the walls a very light gray (cool-toned) and the ceilings the same white as the trim. I was thinking of doing the upper cabinets next... should I go with a cool toned white or a warm toned white? I will probably have to do the countertop and the lower cabinets at the same time if I am going with blue. Can I get away with keeping the floors or will that look bad? Taste wise, I'm right with you. I hate this style of kitchen, and that backsplash is my #1 pet peeve. That being said, I'd probably leave it alone for a year and really get a feel for how the light changes and how a quartz counter works for you. I saw this on reddit:  Which gave me a chuckle and inspired me to watch the episode, which turned out to be the heartwarming story of a couple who spent over a million dollars buying and tearing down a post war bungalow and replacing it with a brutalist 1.5 story home inspired by the husband's love of skate park design. The front entrance:  The view the kids have from their bedrooms:  Only a little seepage!  The photos in the link don't do justice to how dark and looming every corner of the house is, even in the face of studio lights. Aside from the sliding doors to the back, the only operable windows open into the sunken patio so not only is it a concrete bunker, but you can't enjoy a cross breeze on a warm summer evening. No woodburner either, I wonder how well the heated floors work with no other source of radiant heat. I actually don't hate the outside, it's a shame they couldn't do a skim coat of plaster on the interior to bounce some light around, and build it so that everyone in the house could enjoy the nice view into the country side, not just the parents. It's up at dailymotion, though I have no idea how long those links usually last.
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Nov 2, 2018 00:49
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Jesus, they built a house with all the character of an interstate overpass. 
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I like the outside, but the interior is a case study in why they stopped making brutalist buildings. Turns out buildings in styles that explicitly minimize windows kinda suck to live in. Who knew?
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whalesteak posted:The view the kids have from their bedrooms: Well, the kids can see all the sights they want when they go to Tosche Station *after* they've done their chores.
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Nov 2, 2018 11:46
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I love how the guy keeps rationalizing all the mistakes. "It adds character". What a disaster. The making of a white elephant.
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Did that show really have nudity and scenes of a sexual nature?
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BigFactory posted:Did that show really have nudity and scenes of a sexual nature? Look, if you don't get off on bare concrete then I don't know what to tell you.
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whalesteak posted:
I'm the 40 quid "an art" from the design museum london
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    Ideal for racquetball enthusiasts.
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oh no, it's awful
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Jaded Burnout posted:oh no, it's awful It can't be awful, it has an eames!
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And potted plants, I can't see why more people don't decorate like that!
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BigFactory posted:Did that show really have nudity and scenes of a sexual nature? The owner couldn't stop himself from jizzing uncontrollably every time he caressed the unsanded concrete that made up the walls, floor, and ceiling of his baby's nursery. You wouldn't under stand, it's because "the material is honest!"
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whalesteak posted:Taste wise, I'm right with you. I hate this style of kitchen, and that backsplash is my #1 pet peeve. That being said, I'd probably leave it alone for a year and really get a feel for how the light changes and how a quartz counter works for you. Jesus gently caress, it looks like a section of the Batterie Todt.
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Jaded Burnout posted:oh no, it's awful Sure, it's awful now. But it will be a pretty cool and spooky urbex ruin someday. Was it a small factory? A dentists office? A fallout bunker? 
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Injuries on top of insults: all the drat chairs but maybe one or two look deeply uncomfortable to sit upon. Wood stool. Wooden bench. Molded plastic chair. A fabric chair but with a back so low it's more like a stool. Big, yellow fabric couch but you must slouch and readjust every once in a while lest you slide off it completely. That looks like a concrete hellspace. There's not even a pile of pillows you can law on. gently caress. Also it's Brutalist. Where the hell are the plants? The overgrowing, reclaiming vines and trees, not those anemic little potted plants. I'm so mad at those I want to shove them over. They don't deserve that, or being in that awful place. #FreeThosePlants!
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Nov 2, 2018 22:57
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I would love to survive the zombies in this place. A+++ would recommend.
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I also appreciate that there's no easy way to get in or out of the pool Don't catch your toe on the elevated trough that surrounds the pool, since you'll snap your ankle as you face plant into the ground below. Edit: I can't stress enough how much these parents must hate their kids  Mom and Dad get: the only elevated room, full light, door to back garden, view of pool and rolling countryside. Children get: room in the basement, tiny ground level window, prison exercise yard. My kids have the bedroom over the garden because I specifically want them to see the amazing fall foliage of our and our neighbors trees, to smell the burst of fragrant spring blossoms every april, and to watch all the birds and squirrels that flock to our feeders. I can't imagine a parent spending a MILLION pounds to give their child a view of the ground (if they crouch down) or a concrete wall. whalesteak fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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Fortunately when the nukes hit, the windows will focus the blast like a shaped charge and end all of their inevitable suffering.
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I've never seen a house that feels like the ambiance would be improved upon by the sound of interstate traffic but there you go.
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Yikes. Yeah. Brutalism needs lots of light and 'airy' interior space to be livable. Contrasting materials can help a lot, too. Dumbass dug himself a lovely bunker.
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