Iron Crowned posted:

I"m the wine fridge

bird with big dick posted:

Buff Skeleton posted:

Need to whip up a bathroom remodel in a hurry? Dump a bunch of petals on the floor and shower off of the floor like a animal you piece of poo poo

Breath Ray posted:

heres the fllorplan - as you can see it's a tricky one. i could always just make it a 3-bed without a living room but seems a bit dystopian even for london

Anne Whateley posted:

I'm not sure this would make sense financially because it involves moving plumbing, but I'm thinking layout-wise this makes more sense
- do as you suggest with bathroom
- in the hallway, tear out the closet, bump the laundry room up into this hallway, add door from living room as you suggest
- rip out the lower closet and turn the current laundry room into a big pantry. Also super convenient given the garage door

bird with big dick posted:

I think this was all architected by someone that didn't give a poo poo or was just incompetent. The bathroom is too big, the laundry room is too small, the pantry is too small, the hallway is a waste of space, the nook is stupid, there should be more of a defined foyer/entryway, etc, etc, etc.

Part of me wants to say gently caress it and move the laundry room downstairs and add 75 square feet to the kitchen AND a 75 square foot pantry but this would probably be bad for resale.

I may look around for an actual local designer of some sort.

Anne Whateley posted:

If you say gently caress it, move the laundry room upstairs. Upstairs is where 95% of your laundry comes from and goes to. I always recommend that anyway, but especially if you want to get it out of the way here.

Is this your main entrance that you want a foyer and don't just want to come in through a pantry? Are you in an area where mudrooms are a thing? How much of that function can the garage serve?

I think going to an architect is a good idea, but tbh I would suggest, if you do, looking for a woman. I think the way you got into this mess is because the house was planned by someone who put much less of a priority on the kitchen and laundry, jobs that women do very disproportionately. It's not a guarantee that a woman will be a kitchen expert, of course -- you should also talk to whoever you find, emphasize the need for functionality, see where they're coming from -- but they're more likely to be thinking from experience and not just a few rules of thumb.

peanut posted:

Split the "reception room" into 2 bedrooms and the 11x11 bedroom as a living room.

BigFactory posted:

If that’s a leased apartment I don’t know if you can demo walls like that.

TheManWithNoName posted:

Just put some French doors on it and call it whatever you want.

hailthefish posted:

Might not be feasible, depends on the structure of the house, but if you're willing to get really daring with the changes, something like this might be an option.



Still leaves the living room as pretty vestigial, though, but maybe less cramped than leaving the cloakroom and enclosing the hallway. Depends on how much you like the cloakroom/whether or not the cloakroom is feasible to integrate into the main living space.

My Lovely Horse posted:

Not an architect or anything but it seems almost even more dystopian to have two full bedrooms and one that's obviously and awkwardly separated from the living room area, which is now the smallest room in the flat.

With some serious building work on the 3-pane window and interior wall you could do something like this:



Probably better to split it down the middle, but the cloak room limits your options for door placement, which makes the new room on the left fairly small. Also, with this setup, it might be better to declare the southwest bedroom the new living room as it's now the largest, even though that puts it right between two bedrooms and you can't do anything too loud in there.

PurpleXVI posted:

Honestly I think doing that would be the smarter choice. Otherwise you end up with two rooms too small to really do much with.

bEatmstrJ posted:

The reason I don't respond to most of the things that are said is simply because everyone is quick to assume that everything is a problem that only exists in my bathroom and nowhere else. I usually ignore these things because there's no way for me to prove anything that will be satisfactory to the apparently hilariously high standards of the average person in this thread.

1. Large 8x10 beams were sistered in next to the existing joists. This was engineered appropriately and is very uninteresting.
2. The pebble tray is full of very lightweight plastic rocks. The bathtub doesn't get used much and even when it does there is no water or spillage onto said rocks. Aside from a few random hairs here and there they don't get moist or dirty. Any vacuum with a hose attachment would work fine for cleaning. If I really needed to I could easily load them up in a bucket for a gentle washing.
3. I'm not being weird about my toilet. YOU GUYS are being weird about my toilet. Its a loving toilet. In a tiny room. With some grey tile on the floor and unpainted walls. It's completely uninteresting.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Very heavy 15ft 8x10 wood beams. Probably the most interesting part was that they had to hoist them in through the 2nd floor window since they were too big to walk through the house.

Percy Günne Shelly posted:

ozymanDIYous

I met a realtor from a foreign land,

Who said—“Two vast and top-shorn beams of I

Are sister'd in the bathroom. . . . Near them, plastic stones,

Half sunk a tiny tub lies, whose mold,

Impractical lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell its designer well those tolerances read

Which yet survive, stamped on these axe-born things,

The hand that framed them, and the wallet that bled;

And in the toilet room, on self-portrait appear:

My name is bEatmsterJ, DIYer of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye , and despair!

No builder-grade materials remain. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone unlevel tile sags away.”

Rotten Cookies posted:

Tangentially related, I work at a metal shop and got some leeway to make some side projects here. I'm giddy about making some bad coffee tables.

FilthyImp posted:

FilthyImp posted:

Rotten Cookies posted:

Off the top of my head, that's a W10x45 wide flange beam. 10 inches, 8 across, about 5/8" thick at the widest part, and dang 45 lbs/ft. That's a hefty boi and pretty significant to add to a house, let alone after the fact. That's a homewrecker to shove in afterward.




Tangentially related, I work at a metal shop and got some leeway to make some side projects here. I'm giddy about making some bad coffee tables. I had a big ol' dang post written up about what I hoped to achieve by making some furniture but it was a rambling mess that boiled down to "I like metal and wanna make some tables and chairs."

Queen Combat posted:

I live in a studio and after a year on a lovely sprung futon I tossed it and got one of those Japanese-style floor futons. Gives me so much square footage back during the day, and TBH I already prefer a stiffer mattress, so one designed to be one instead of a crap mattress that BECAME one is so much nicer.

Yeah every day I have to pick it up and put it on a shelf, but it's worth the space for projects and to stretch out on. Pretty much the OPPOSITE of interior design, but there ya go.

In the summer I'm going to move it into the "living room" (separated from the "bedroom" by a head-high wall with shutters up top) and sleep in there, to save on AC costs here in Phoenix.

FilthyImp posted:

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TooMuchAbstraction posted:

What really sealed it was the "GAMER'S CHOICE" label. Holy poo poo.

Chitin posted:

I was just reading the BUDK catalogue thread and uh

Chitin posted:

I was just reading the BUDK catalogue thread and uh

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

What really sealed it was the "GAMER'S CHOICE" label. Holy poo poo.